Tracey Conyer Lee
Tracey Conyer Lee is a multidisciplinary storyteller residing in Yonkers. Her award winning plays have been produced in Boston, Chicago, Nashville, NYC, DC/Metro and New Jersey. She is published by Methuen/Bloomsbury alongside her most lauded peers, colleagues and inspirations in the anthology 25 Plays From the Fire This Time Festival. She has been a finalist for the Samuel French OOB Award, Circle Of
Confusion Discovery fellowship, Lark Playwrights Week, the Princess Grace Award, the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award, Live & In Color’s New Musical Workshop
and a semi-finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. TLee was a National Black Theatre I AM SOUL playwriting fellow and winner of the Florida Theatricals New Musical Discovery series. Her work has been developed at the Obie winning The Fire This Time Festival, Urban Stages, Boomerang Theatre Company, the historic and award winning National Black Theatre, JAG Productions (VT), Redtwist and Congo Square Theaters in Chicago, Ally Theatre Company in DC/metro & American Theatre Group’s Playlab moderated by Pandora Scooter. In development with collaborators, Tracey Conyer Lee is currently writing 2 musicals and an innovative new climate change comedy. She has recently been commissioned to write a play inspired by the life of a little known Black, female, American political success story.
As a professional actor for three decades, TLee has originated roles Off-Broadway and at top regional theaters, performing in over 80 professional productions around the globe, yielding Carbonell, NAACP and Barrymore Awards. A 2023 Broadwayworld review states “Leading the cast is Tracey Conyer Lee...It's not hyperbole to strongly claim that this is one of the finest performances you will ever be privy to see. … There's not a false note here. ... High school and college Theatre teachers: Get your students off their duffs and get them to the Asolo where they can see and learn from this incredible, once-in-a-lifetime performance!” Her extensive performance life is highlighted by her role as Billie Holiday in nine productions of Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill – most recently at the gorgeous Gulfshore Playhouse (FL) in Spring 2025 – and membership in the 2019 Tony Award honored choir, Broadway Inspirational Voices, currently celebrating it’s 30th year, through whom TLee volunteers or works as a teaching artist at Covenant House and Ronald McDonald House. She has guest starred or co-starred on the small screen on Hulu, ABC, NBC and currently recurs in multiple seasons of FBI on CBS. She is a proud audiobook narrator of fiction and non-fiction, voicing narratives from scholarly protest work to soapy sex and murder romps by Black authors.
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Tracey has directed Off-Broadway and around NYC/NJ, specializing in new plays and musicals. She’s an award winning co-director, with Zhailon Levingston, of the lauded, Obie Award winning Fire This Time Festival. She’s directed for Downtown Urban Arts Festival, New Jersey’s Vanguard Theatre and Mile Square Theatre. Her passion for new work development has supported TLee’s journey as a script consultant and director for multiple works in development for regional and off-Broadway productions. When not sharing stories for the stage or screen, TLee is training and coaching bold leadership presence, presentation skills and storytelling for business in corporate America with fellow artists at Ovation (www.GetOvation.com). Her proudest achievement in that work was co-founding Be Ready, a two year non-profit endeavor which brought the professional presence training she teaches in corporate America, free of charge, to Black and brown youth preparing for higher education or the workforce.
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