Miriam Laryea

Miriam Laryea is a Ghanaian actor and creative professional whose work bridges performance, storytelling, and cultural entrepreneurship. She is the founder of Act1 Cinema Productions, a creative house dedicated to producing stage and screen works that interrogate African identity, tradition, and contemporary social issues. She is also a co-writer and critic at literaturestudent.com, where she contributes theatre reviews and analyses of literary works in Ghana and beyond.

Miriam’s academic and artistic interests lie at the intersection of community theatre and performance as social intervention, theatre translation and adaptation, and acting methodologies in intercultural performance. She is also deeply engaged in exploring the use of artificial intelligence in storytelling. Through her YouTube channel, Tales from the African Pot, she employs AI tools to generate visual narratives that retell and reimagine African stories for global audiences.