Tracee Roderick Comfort

Tracee Roderick Comfort, a member of the Southern Producers Lab, is 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. She has studied under screenwriter Richard Wesley and literary masters Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates. Her award-winning plays and scripts often wrestle with social justice issues and the intersectionality of the black and female experience in America. Her feature script Master/Race was 2nd round for the 2019 Sundance Development track. 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. Tracee is currently developing comedy and drama TV pilots and adapting Blood Meal into a feature script. 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. She has held additional indie film production roles as: Location Manager, Casting Director and Craft Services