Multi-disciplinary artist and Chicago native Traci Tolmaire has a career spanning over 15 years collaborating with innovative leaders in the arts. She received a BA in Theatre from Spelman College with studies at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and trained in ballet, tap, modern, and jazz at various dance institutions including Sammy Dyer School of the Theatre, Lou Conte/Hubbard Street, and Atlanta Ballet.
Her performance credits include Jelly’s Last Jam (Le Petit Theatre); Cherchez La Femme (La MaMa ETC); Mirrors In Every Corner (Campo Santo); and Trouble in Mind (Actor's Express). Choreography credits include Big Easy Award winner for Best Musical of the Year Jelly’s Last Jam, for which Traci also received a Best Choreographer nomination and Gee's Bend (Hartford Stage), Connecticut Critics Circle Award Winner for Best Ensemble.
Driven and inspired by new work, Traci has been a company member of Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s The Living Word project for ten years. As a company member, Traci has had the opportunity to combine her artistry onstage with her passion for and experience in arts education and community engagement. Under the direction of Michael John Garcés, she developed and performed in the national tours of Bessie Award Nominee red, black, & GREEN: a blues and /peh-LO-tah/ at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Kennedy Center, MCA Chicago, and BAM in New York.
CHI-BOY is her debut as a playwright and has been workshopped at The Kennedy Center (Page to Stage) and with the award-winning multi-cultural theater company Campo Santo in San Francisco. She is currently writing a new piece with co-creator Margo Hall- actor, director, and Artistic Director of Lorraine Hansberry Theatre in San Francisco- centered around the iconic playwright, activist, and fellow Chicagoan Lorraine Hansberry. In tandem with her writing, Traci is an emerging producer and had the honor of being a member of the inaugural 2021 BIPOC commercial producing course created by Theatre Producers of Color (TPOC).
Traci has not only established a thriving artistic career but a career in music as well. She started in the A&R Department at Universal Motown under then president and music industry pioneer Sylvia Rhone and is now Director of Artist Operations at music veteran Steve Stoute's UnitedMasters, a revolutionary music-tech company serving Independent artists.
Her performance credits include Jelly’s Last Jam (Le Petit Theatre); Cherchez La Femme (La MaMa ETC); Mirrors In Every Corner (Campo Santo); and Trouble in Mind (Actor's Express). Choreography credits include Big Easy Award winner for Best Musical of the Year Jelly’s Last Jam, for which Traci also received a Best Choreographer nomination and Gee's Bend (Hartford Stage), Connecticut Critics Circle Award Winner for Best Ensemble.
Driven and inspired by new work, Traci has been a company member of Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s The Living Word project for ten years. As a company member, Traci has had the opportunity to combine her artistry onstage with her passion for and experience in arts education and community engagement. Under the direction of Michael John Garcés, she developed and performed in the national tours of Bessie Award Nominee red, black, & GREEN: a blues and /peh-LO-tah/ at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Kennedy Center, MCA Chicago, and BAM in New York.
CHI-BOY is her debut as a playwright and has been workshopped at The Kennedy Center (Page to Stage) and with the award-winning multi-cultural theater company Campo Santo in San Francisco. She is currently writing a new piece with co-creator Margo Hall- actor, director, and Artistic Director of Lorraine Hansberry Theatre in San Francisco- centered around the iconic playwright, activist, and fellow Chicagoan Lorraine Hansberry. In tandem with her writing, Traci is an emerging producer and had the honor of being a member of the inaugural 2021 BIPOC commercial producing course created by Theatre Producers of Color (TPOC).
Traci has not only established a thriving artistic career but a career in music as well. She started in the A&R Department at Universal Motown under then president and music industry pioneer Sylvia Rhone and is now Director of Artist Operations at music veteran Steve Stoute's UnitedMasters, a revolutionary music-tech company serving Independent artists.