Born and raised in the south suburbs of Chicago, IL, Regina Hoyles is a multi-faceted actor, writer and award-winning filmmaker who got her start in the entertainment industry as early as nine years old. She is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she received her BFA in Drama and minored in the Business of Entertainment. Regina created NAPS, an original web series which screened at festivals such as NYU’s Fusion Film Festival and NYC Webfest . Regina wrote, produced, directed, and starred in her first short film entitled ADULLAM which premiered as an official selection in the 2020 Bentonville Film Festival and is now airing on REVOLT TV’s anthology series, “Short and Fresh”. Adullam was awarded Best Black Lens Film at the Sidewalk Film Festival as well as Best Narrative Film in the Argo’s Untold Stories Short Film Awards. The film was also awarded for "Best Screenplay" at the 2022 inaugural Black Girls Rock! Film Fest. She is the Founder/Producer of her boutique production company RLH Productions, which serves as an umbrella to her own work as well as a resource to other emerging artists particularly amplifying Black voices and all their complexities across genres. She produced the short film TENDER (dir. Felicia Pride) which received the Lionsgate/STARZ Producer Award at the 2020 Blackstar Film Festival. As an actor, she can be seen featured on shows such as THE MARVELOUS MS. MAISEL (Amazon), THE CHI (Showtime), ALL RISE (OWN) and 9-1-1: LONE STAR (FOX). She is currently a writer for a new animated Disney series. In her free time, she enjoys lying down.