Aissatou Diallo

The niece of hanged politician and DSG leader Barry III was born in 1972 to an African-American mother and a Guinean (Fulani) Father. At the age of two, her mother moved the family from Los Angeles to Dakar, Senegal in West Africa to live amongst her father's people. This experience would leave an indelible impression on her, molding and shaping her sense of self, and is the very reason she has spent over 2 years working as Associate Producer on the narrative "art house" documentary BOUND: AvAA produced by Hollywood actor, philanthropist & humanitarian Isaiah Washington, which was met by a a "sold out" World Premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) June 7, 2014, and garnered her Director Ms. Peres Owino a SIFF Official Selection, winning the Women In Film (WIF) Lena Sharpe Award for Persistence of Vision. With an emphasis on acting, Mrs. Diallo graduated with Honors from UC Santa Barbara's esteemed BFA program. For 3 years she and 15 others survived quarterly cuts being blessed with a once in a life time opportunity to study under the tutelage of James Donlon, a physical theater master and movement guru to Oscar winners: Kathy Bates, Francis McDormand, and Javier Bardem. In 1999, Donlon cast Aïssatou as the female half of GOD in his play (ironically titled) The Serpent of Ai. While in Santa Barbara, she starred in the West Coast premiere of David Mamet's, No One Will be Immune and the staged reading of Tom Strelich's BAFO as Shokanje at the Ensemble Theater, both directed by Heather Rasche, wife of actor David Rasche (Burn After Reading) . In 2003 she was asked to return to Santa Barbara and gave depth and dimension to the character "Rue", in the premiere of Apricots and Avocado's written and directed by Carson W. Stout at The Center Stage Theater. In Los Angeles, she participated in Gordy (Love Liza) Hoffman's Shakespeare Marathon at The Met Theater two years in a row, and played a jaw dropping, machete wielding witch, in Mocbet at the Colsac Theater in Hollywood. Mrs. Diallo was Last seen as x-prostitute Keesha and hailed by the LA Weekly as a "powerhouse" in Scott Werve's, West Coast premiere of Chad Beckim's 'Nami. In 2014 she proudly became a member of Towne Street Theater... LA's Premiere African-American Theater Company. Aissatou got her start in film production as a PA working on "table top" Commercials for Sato Films where she assisted food stylists in the late 90's. She would later create the now defunct craft service company Snak'n-Chat where she catered her "delicious delectables" strictly to commercial sets working on promos for SHOWTIME's Weeds,Californication, and Dexter. She is presently President of Blue Plate Films a non-union production company based in L.A. As a writer Mrs. Diallo has written the full-length screenplay Freedom's Wake, and the short Jöga.