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A communications strategist who uses storytelling as a medium.


Trae’s interdisciplinary practice is rooted in inquiry at the intersections of identity, memory, mythology, and migration, examining how parasociality reshapes these forces within our lives.

Guided by a deep desire to understand how we become the versions of ourselves we perform for the world, Trae bridges the personal with the historical, conjuring speculative worlds where the self is both invented and undone.



Performance is the art of becoming
"I wanted my actual body to be combined with the work as an integral material." Carolee Schneemann


Trae’s journey began in performance as a dancer, actor, and singer at Arena Players Incorporated, the oldest continually performing and historically African-American community theatre in the United States. Under the tutelage of Robert F. Chew, they made their television debut as a teenager on HBO’s The Wire and have since unfolded across stages and screens with bold, boundary-defying roles.





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 A selection of Trae’s acting work Includes:  Sundance feature Newlyweeds (2013), Naomi Wallace’s And I and Silence at Signature Theatre (2014), Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black,  the award-winning shorts Hair Wolf (2019, Sundance U.S. Fiction Winner), The Vacation (2022, Sundance Directors Award), in which they received an Outstanding Supporting Actress award at The Tallgrass Film Festival 2023.  In 2024, they had the privilege of bringing to life After the Deluge, written by Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winner John Patrick Shanley, further reflecting their commitment to character-driven storytelling that is both intimate and visionary.