Millena Gay is an award-winning producer, director and actress whose dynamic career spans nearly three decades. A native of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, she graduated from the University of Virginia's pre-law program — but a title-winning performance as Sojourner Truth during the Ms. Black World Pageant shifted her trajectory toward the arts.
A lucrative television career began on One Life to Live, followed by All My Children, The Guiding Light, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless. She graduated with honors from UCLA Extension's Producing & Entertainment Studies Program and recently completed her UCLA Directing Certification for Film and Television — with honors.
Millena just finished co-directing with Obba Babatundé the short film Ruby's Heart. Her body of work includes the award-winning feature documentary Golden Hearted, the 40-minute narrative short Something About Mother (starring Jayne Kennedy, Dawnn Lewis, and Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs), and the short documentary Fun The Emachee Way. She is currently producing the breast-cancer documentary Why Us? The Search for Hope in Eleuthera, Bahamas, and in pre-production on the 1950s Las Vegas period piece Black Jack at the Moulin Rouge.
"Excellence is not an option — it is an expectation and a way of life."