Born and raised in West Harlem, educated in the Lower East Side and Upstate New York, Tracy has come full circle to follow her creative ambitions. After a brief spell in the music industry, she decided to pursue acting with the goal to push beyond the boundaries of how women of color are perceived in theater and film, to approach roles varying in depth and range. She has worked in notable venues such as Ensemble Studio Theater, Center Stage, Repertorio Español, HERE and with companies such as Cornerstone Theater Company and Project 400. She has also performed at the Nuyorican Poet’s Café in Miguel Pinero’s one-act, Sideshow (HOWL Festival ’03) as Sugar, and portrayed a young gentleman in a monologue written by Sofia Quintero in the one- night only sold-out show, Jose Can Speak, produced by Linda Nieves-Powell. She was part of the original cast of Platanos and Collard Greens, where it first grew popularity at the Producer’s Club. Her versatility has driven her to work on the British play, Gut Girls, produced by the Flying Fig Theater Company at The Chocolate Factory. She worked on the timely play, De Donde and several pieces by J. Anthony Roman at the Rebel Verses Theater Festival. With aspirations to also direct, she has worked as an assistant director for Glory Sims Bowen and Charmian Creagle at the Looking Glass Theater’s 2003 Spring Forum, which then led her to make her directorial debut the following year in the East Village’s Red Room Theatre with an original play, Checkmate. Film is an equal, if not significant passion, having worked on several shorts, including St. Paul [Kulture Machine Productions], which won Best Short at the NY International Latino Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Columbia Student Film Festival in 2005. She was among the leads in the award-winning short, Collision and her most recent short, Suavecito, premiered at the 2007 NY Int’l Latino Film Festival. Tracy played the lead, Lily Daisy Rose Rodriguez, in the indie TV pilot, The Desire Project, [Good Stories For Bad Children Productions] where an art star turned documentary-maker chronicles the life and times of Williamsburg artists. Novelist Jardine Libaire, author of Here Kitty Kitty, penned the script. Projects in post-production are Angela Cheng’s Wicked Desire and Arzhang Kamarai’s Layla Is Bad. Tracy is also very enthusiastic and passionate about using her voice for film and TV, having worked on the video game Dimenxion, a commercial and two short films. Tracy is also a producer, having successfully completed Hero the Great, where she teamed up with writer/director Juan Caceres, after their initial partnership on Juicy. Hero will be making its way to the film festival circuit in 2008.
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