Tracee Loran is an accomplished journalist, writer and actress with years of experience in the entertainment industry. The Chicago native earned a degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While there, she won the statewide Illinois Broadcasters’ Association Internship Program competition which gave her hands on experience at a major radio station. Armed with this experience and driven to compete with the best, Tracee headed to New York City to attend the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. Since graduating she has appeared in several television shows, stage productions and national television commercials, most recently for HBO.In 2005 she endured a battery of auditions over a 10-month period to land her dream job as the anchor of the new and much hyped Mobile ESPN. She’s been able to fuse her passion and keen knowledge of sports with her unconventional reporting style to secure interviews with notable names such as Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, Super Bowl XVII MVP Joe Theismann, 2004 Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart, 2005 Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush, and 2006 NBA Finals MVP Dwayne Wade, just to name a few. Her exciting ESPN position has taken her to Wimbledon, the Super Bowl, the US Open, and the Major League Baseball playoffs.From sports fan to sports FAN A-TIC! Tracee has always aspired to host/produce her own show. In 2006 she set out to meet those goals and created a weekly half-hour sports docu-ality (documentary/reality). Tracee believed in the project so much that she took a leap of faith and financed the pilot episode, which features former defensive star Richard Dent as well as current NFL players. The show is funny, intriguing, and dramatic plus it has a proven audience – all the ingredients of a hit!Shortly after creating the New Hot Sports Show, Tracee established a film company, April Thirteenth Productions LLC, with the expressed purpose of generating quality movie and television projects. In addition to the New Hot Sports Show, she’s currently shopping several projects including an hour-long drama and a reality show, which Rose Catherine Pinkney, Executive VP of Programming, TV One, says is ‘one of the best treatments I’ve read in a long time.’Multi-faceted and driven, Tracee Loran has combined raw talent with discipline and professionalism to achieve substantial success on her terms. With the development of the New Hot Sports Show and April Thirteenth Productions LLC she is now poised to take on greater challenges and has the life skills, courage and determination to handle all that will accompany this new and exciting phase in her career.
I'd like to meet:
If you trying to make IT happen, I wanna meet you. I'm all about progressive people!
Music:
My music taste is eclectic. Deep down I wanna be a Rock Star. But I can vybe to jazz, classical, hip hop, hard rock, soft rock, experimental, and the Chicago Gurl in me will always love HOUSE!
Movies:
Rocky is my all time favorite - I, II & III, Cooley High, Love Jones, Sparkle, The Wiz, anything by Hitchcock (Strangers on a Train is my favorite by the genuis), The Five Heartbeats, New Jack City (there is no shame), Old School, Set If Off, Dancer in the Dark, Shaft, Cinema Paradiso, All About My Mother & too many foreign films to name.P.S. Gator is the best & most underrated movie character eva!
Television:
Ain't nutin' lyke a good football game, a good bball game, a good tennis match, ok any good sporting event is good for me. As far as regular TV, the list is long, but I'll name a few favorites. I'm down with Old Skool Cats as well as New Jacks. Colombo, Jack Bauer, Sydney Bristow, Monk, Simon Cowell, Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, Miranda and Mr. Big (gotta luv a white cat with a large three letter name), Whitley Gilbert n' Nem, Susan, Gabrielle, Bree, Lynette plus the invisible talkative white chick, Tony Soprano & His Crew, Vincent Chase, Turtle, E & Drama, R.I.P. Dr. Preston Burke
Books:
If I mention the Bible I might be accused of being cliche, if I don't then my Grandma and God will call me out. So Im'ma keep it real. Everything thats done today- infidelity, lying, stealing, cheating, killling, loving, hating, debating, has been done in those 66 books. Plus you get inspired! So the Bible is definitely a good read. I'm also into autobiographies. Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom (amazing), Manchild in the Promised Land (every urban brotha should read that), and Divided Soul are a few that stand out.
Heroes:
Does Spider-Man count?
