Tracee Comfort '98

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Tracee Comfort '98

Filmmaker, Playwright, Producer, Writer

Me in 50 words or less:
Writer/Producer, Southern Producers Lab fellow, Black Creators Forum. 2020 Black List Annual Feature Lab, finalist.

Pronouns:
She/her/hers

Department: Politics

Student Group(s): Theatre Intime, Princeton Shakespeare Company, Black Arts

Bio

TRACEE RODERICK COMFORT (P'98), a native of Memphis, TN, is a member of the Southern Producers Lab and an Executive M.B.A. who graduated from Princeton with a degree in Politics and the N.Y.U. Tisch, Dramatic Writing M.F.A. program as a Dean’s Fellow. Tracee's film work as co-producer includes Top Ten Short films (DRIVEN, THE GAME, MINORITY, OUTSIDE ARCADIA and MEA CULPA) in the 2017, 2018 and 2019 Memphis Film Prize. Minority won the Hometowner Narrative Short competition at the 2018 Indie Memphis Film Festival and Best Short at the Franklin International Independent Film Festival. Tracee was a press department volunteer for the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, a media relations volunteer for the 2018 Oxford Film Festival, the Event Coordinator for the Black Creators Forum at the Indie Memphis Film Festival and was the Production Coordinator for Color Creative/Issa Rae Presents BET pilot, CURVES. Her feature script MASTER/RACE was 2nd round for the 2019 Sundance Development track and a finalist for the 2020 Black List Annual Feature Lab. Her social thriller short film script BLOOD MEAL was Top Ten in the Indie Memphis Film Festival, Indie Grant program in 2018 and has been workshopped in the Sundance Collab Psychological Thriller/Horror master class with screenwriter Scott Kosar and writer/director Deborah Goodwin.

I would like to:

  • Speak on a panel

  • Share advice via phone or coffee chat

Contact Tracee Comfort