Clyla Destiny Boykin also known as “Clyla Destiny” was born on Juneteenth (June 19th), 1993 in Nashua, New Hampshire. As Clyla began to grow into the woman she is today her parents would discover that she was a jack of all trades. Clyla never wanted to be put inside of a box so with the support of her family she was able to explore many different activities, hobbies, and pastimes that would shape and cultivate her future.

As a child Clyla dove head first into the arts penning her first poem at the age of nine. Her parents made sure she had a foundation in church and that was where she was able to build her confidence and express her talents. Throughout her adolescence Clyla was an accomplished athlete making it to the New England Association Junior Olympics in 2002 and receiving college scholarships to play field hockey that she declined to move to Tampa, FL in 2011 instead. Although Clyla will tell anyone who asks that basketball is her first love, somewhere along the way entertainment stole her heart. While in FL she attended the University of Tampa where she was known for her dancing and poetry. She currently attends Hillsborough Community College where she is studying Music and Psychology while taking theater and dance classes in between.

Clyla is a servant leader and that is what makes her a dynamic asset to any production or team. Her humility gives her the ability to transition easily between roles from lead actress to stage hands and do them all with a level of excellence that I would charge everyone to match! Clyla has been acting and involved in theater and show productions since she was a young girl and that experience is more than evident in how she embodies characters today. In 2013 she landed the supporting role of Destiny (ironic) in the National Stage play “A Lonely Woman’s Heart” directed by Shawn Henderson just months after releasing her first EP “Longing For Love” on which she sang and wrote every song/poem. Clyla has had the opportunity to work as an extra in productions between Tampa, Atlanta, Chicago, California and New York including the not yet released Tupac Biopic “All Eyez On Me” directed by Benny Boom. In 2015 she came in contact with a twin brother production duo that founded Inkwell Pictures and encouraged her to take her writing to another level. 

Melvin and Marvin Coleman co-founders of Inkwell Pictures and owners of Inkwell Centre, a community arts center in Tampa, FL, encouraged Clyla to use her gift of writing to create opportunities not only for herself but others around her. So Clyla Destiny, the poet, dancer, songstress, and much more, decided to learn another new trade and become Clyla Destiny, the screenwriter and penned her first screenplay, a short film entitled “Almost” in which she also plays the lead actress! Clyla is not only interested in the big screen but she is very hands on in her community as well. She spent ten months on a national tour through the U.S. with E.P.I.C. Assemblies in 2014 and ‘15 reaching and teaching the next generation. In between school and performances Clyla currently holds three jobs one working in the group home setting with at risk youth, another at a rehabilitation facility for individuals with brain and spinal cord injuries, and as a child care specialist with SoHo Sitters. In between Clyla is a skilled loctician, professional traveler, photographer, model, motivational speaker, and much more!

If there is one thing to say about Clyla it is that she understands the importance of owning your ‘Destiny” and that is exactly what she intends to do! Clyla understands that the mistakes and lessons of her past and others are simply pieces of a greater story that needs to be told. Whether it be through the big screen or to her friends in her living room Clyla seeks to encourage, inspire, motivate, and provide hope to real people, with real hearts, in real time and she will do that with whatever tools and gifts God chooses to bless her with!

“I am a Jack of all trades serving the Master of all.”-Clyla Destiny