Next up on the main stage, "Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill" by Lanie Robertson. Director, Jade King Carroll and actor Tracey Conyer Lee discuss what it takes to conjure the life of the legendary Billie Holiday.
About Jade King Carroll
Jade King Carroll is a freelance director based in NYC. She has directed numerous productions in NY and across the country including: The Light and The Dark (Primary Stages/Chautauqua Theater Company); A Jumping Off Point (Round House Theatre); Proof of Love (New York Theatre Workshop/Audible at Minetta Lane); New Age (Milwaukee Rep); Red Velvet (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Detroit ’67 (McCarter Theatre co-production with Hartford Stage); Intimate Apparel, The Piano Lesson (McCarter Theatre, Hartford Stage); Having Our Say (Hartford Stage co-production with Long Wharf Theatre); Autumn’s Harvest (Lincoln Center Institute); Stew (Ebony Rep Theater); Seven Deadly Sins - Wrath (Miami New Drama - Drama League Award); Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Syracuse Stage); Trouble in Mind (Two River Theater & PlayMakers Rep); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Whipping Man, Native Gardens, Skeleton Crew, Bad Dates, Perseverance, How I Learned What I Learned (Portland Stage); The Revolutionists, Sunset Baby (City Theatre); A Raisin In The Sun (Perseverance); Pride & Prejudice, The Tempest (Chautauqua Theater Company); Seven Guitars, The Persians (People’s Light and Theatre); Still Life (Ancram Opera House); King Hedley II (Portland Playhouse); Fat Ham (PlayMakers Rep); A Raisin the Sun, Cardboard Piano (Juilliard); Laughing Wild, Redeemed, Skeleton Crew (Dorset Theatre Festival); Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money (Atlantic Theater - NYT Family Pick); New Golden Age (Primary Stages - Susan Smith Blackburn nominated). Audio Plays: Marvel’s Wastelanders: Doom (Marvel, Ambies Nomination for Best Production); Proof of Love (Audible); Redeemed (Broadway Podcast Network/Dorset Theatre Festival); The Bleeding Class (Geva Theater); Isolated Incidents (Broadway Podcast Network). Associate Director for Broadway’s A Streetcar Named Desire with Blair Underwood and The Gin Game with Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones. Paul Green Award from the Estate of August Wilson. Producing Artistic Director for Chautauqua Theater Company.
Tracey Lee, a NYC based actor/playwright/teaching artist for 27 years, began working in the corporate sector delivering entertainment based content at meetings and conventions as live industrials. Former industrial clients include ESPN, Amex, Verizon, Sanofi-Pasteur, AstraZeneca, Century 21 and KPMG. As a Manhattan real estate agent for three years, Tracey recognized the asset her acting and writing skills offered when guiding clients through the life changing decision of choosing a home. Those skills have made her a hit hosting corporate events for Visit FL and FrigidNYC. Currently a training consultant with Ovation, Tracey uses her masters in script writing (ie: storytelling) to help build engaging content, develop compelling stories for connective business engagement and refine a client's message for maximum impact. Her bachelors in acting moves her clients beyond the page to an expression of their most credible, captivating and memorable selves, so the messaging is clear and long lasting. Her distinct approach has garnered successful presentations from facilitators at Meijer, chefs and cooking equipment experts at Rational, engineers and developers at Lockheed Martin. One-on-one / private personal development clients include Margaret Molloy, Global CMO of siegel + gale and Sarah Turpie, Practice Manager of the anesthesia division of Envision, as well as a wide range of disciplines throughout Avon and Raymond James. Tracey's philosophies on professional presence and successful business communication move past speaking clearly and loudly enough to be heard. They lean into behaviors that engage your audience and colleagues in ways that put them in your corner and keep their eyes and ears on you at all times and in all ways positive. For more on her artistic endeavors, please visit www.traceyconyerlee.com.