Roya is a movement director, contemporary choreographer, and embodied performance coach working across film, television, theater, and commercial media. Her practice integrates contemporary dance, physical theater, improvisation, and somatic research to support expressive, grounded performance for artists across disciplines.
Her credits span live broadcast, commercial campaigns, and narrative film and theater, including movement direction for Paris Paloma and the Resistance Chorus on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, collaborations with Pussy Riot, and work connected to music projects such as Kiiara and David Guetta’s “Complicated” (featuring Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike). She has also served as creative collaborator and choreographer for campaigns with Jolie, Spotify, and Meta, as well as for award-recognized narrative and long-form dance-film projects presented in multidisciplinary performance contexts.
Roya’s work emphasizes physical clarity, emotional accessibility, and collaborative process, offering performers tools to move with intention while serving story, music, and camera. She brings a background in concert dance and embodied research into commercial, theatrical, and cinematic spaces, creating movement that is both expressive and rooted in real human gesture
