Artistic Vision
Veronique MacRae is an artist-educator, director, playwright, and wellness facilitator whose work lives at the intersection of performance, healing, and social transformation. With nearly 20 years of experience across independent schools, community stages, Off-Broadway, and international festivals, Veronique brings rigorous craft, cultural depth, and embodied wisdom to everything she creates and teaches. She is the creator of the BACA² Method, founder of Stage and Spirit, Co-Director of Coordinate Theater at St. Albans School and National Cathedral School, and a 2023 Kennedy Center Local Theatre Resident. Her work centers ancestral knowledge, community storytelling, and the radical belief that theatre can transform both the individual and the world.
Stage & Spirit/BACA² Method
Stage and Spirit is Veronique MacRae's multidisciplinary arts and wellness enterprise, dedicated to creating transformative theatrical experiences that heal through storytelling, ancestral wisdom, and innovative performance. At its heart is the BACA² Method — Body, Breath, and Character Alignment — a somatic, SEL-integrated framework Veronique developed to help artists connect embodiment with intellect, breath with presence, and technical craft with emotional truth. Stage and Spirit serves youth, adults, educators, and emerging artists through performance labs, creative wellness intensives, community-engaged productions, and professional development programs.
Speaking, Workshops & Publications
​An engaging, sought-after presenter and facilitator, Veronique brings her expertise in performance, pedagogy, and community healing to stages, classrooms, and conference rooms nationwide. She has presented at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival, BroadwayCon, and the Kennedy Center. Her workshops, including the BACA² Method, Soul Care for the Actor, Ancestral Power and Cultural Legacy, and The Business of Acting, are designed to ignite, restore, and equip artists at every stage of their journey.
She is the author of two books — In a Field Full of Lavender Trees: Poetry and Prose of a Soul Seeking Freedom (2022) and The Artist Escape: Refreshing, Renewal and Rejuvenation for the Creative Soul (2020). Her theatre criticism has appeared in DC Theatre Arts, covering productions at the Kennedy Center, Capital Fringe Festival, GALA Hispanic Theatre, and Howard University. Veronique is also a scholar-practitioner whose conference presentations explore Black dramatic traditions, sacred knowledge systems, and the intersection of spirituality and performance.
Teaching & Curriculum
Veronique's classroom is a studio, a rehearsal hall, and a space of transformation. She designs and teaches vertically aligned curricula in Acting, Directing, Public Speaking, Writing and Humanities, as well as collegiate and professional workshops for emerging artists and educators. Her pedagogy integrates somatic practice, social-emotional learning, culturally responsive instruction, and dramaturgical thinking - preparing students not only for conservatory and university-level study, but for meaningful, sustainable lives as artists and citizens.
Directing & Acting
From Off-Broadway to the Edinburgh Fringe, Veronique MacRae's directing practice is defined by bold artistic vision, dramaturgical rigor, and a commitment to stories that matter. Her credits span original works, musicals, and socially engaged theatre and media across New York, Washington DC, Charlotte, and international stages. She currently serves as Co-Director of the six-production Coordinate Theater season at St. Albans School and National Cathedral School, directing Upper and Middle School musicals and plays in one of the nation's most prestigious pre-collegiate theatre programs.
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Veronique MacRae is a professional actress with a career spanning theatre, film, and television. A SAG-AFTRA member and former Actors' Equity Association (AEA) member, she performs in theatrical productions from the regional stage to Off-Broadway, and her screen work includes the role of Diane Blaine, series regular on Miss Education, streaming on Tubi. She is particularly known for her powerful one-woman shows, including Self-Portrait of a Sinner, Rainbow Children, Angel Babies & Fruitless Fig Trees, and the 2026 world premiere of In Fields Where We Bloom. Whether inhabiting an original character or bringing a classic text to life, Veronique's performance practice is deeply informed by the same somatic principles and cultural intentionality that define her work as a director and educator making her an artist who understands the stage from every angle.
Playwriting & Creative Works
Veronique MacRae's original works are rituals of reclamation — lyrical, embodied, and unflinching. Her plays and screenplays explore Black womanhood, grief, mental health, spirituality, identity, and collective healing, drawing from African diasporic traditions, personal narrative, and community witness. Selected works include Of Sacred Soil and Watered Women, When Birds with Broken Wings Fly, Rainbow Children, Angel Babies, and Fruitless Fig Trees, and The Suicide Journals: Mistaken Identity. Her writing has been presented at the New York Theatre Festival, Rogue Theater Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, and BOOM Fringe Festival.