Manhattan Born.
Bull City Raised.
Chocolate City Grown.
Veronique MacRae is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, director, writer, ritual-maker, and story healer whose work moves between stage, screen, spirit, and community.
Born in Manhattan, raised in Durham, North Carolina, and creatively grown in Washington, DC, Veronique carries the rhythm of many places in her body. New York gave her pulse. Durham gave her roots. DC gave her refinement, fire, and a deeper understanding of what it means to create work that speaks to both the individual soul and the collective body.
Her artistry lives where performance becomes ritual, storytelling becomes medicine, and the body becomes a site of memory, truth, and transformation.
Veronique’s creative world is expansive by design. She acts. She directs. She writes. She builds immersive experiences. She creates spaces where audiences are not only invited to watch, but to feel, remember, breathe, and participate. Her work often centers Black women’s stories, ancestral wisdom, spiritual reclamation, grief, joy, resilience, and the sacred possibility of becoming whole.
As the founder of Stage & Spirit, Inc., Veronique creates healing-centered arts experiences rooted in embodiment, cultural memory, and transformation. She is also the originator of the BACA² Method (Body, Breath & Character Alignment), a somatic performance framework that helps artists connect craft with presence, breath with truth, and character work with the wisdom of the body.
Her original works include immersive solo performances, plays, poetry, and ritual-based theatrical experiences that have been presented on stages from New York to Edinburgh, Charlotte, Washington, DC, and beyond.
Whether she is performing a one-woman show, directing an ensemble, writing a new text, leading a room of artists, or building an altar onstage, Veronique approaches the work with one guiding belief:
Art is not separate from healing.
Art is one of the ways we return to ourselves.
Her work has been shaped by nearly two decades of experience across theatre, film, television, education, literary arts, and community-based creative practice. She has appeared on screen, directed for the stage, published poetry and prose, facilitated workshops, and developed performances that blend movement, memory, scent, sound, and sacred imagination.
But beneath the titles and credits is a simple truth: Veronique is a maker of worlds.
Worlds where Black women bloom.
Worlds where the wounded voice becomes a singing voice.
Worlds where the stage becomes soil.
Worlds where story becomes ceremony.
Worlds where art asks us not just to look, but to listen.
Today, Veronique continues to create across disciplines while expanding her work nationally through performance, touring, writing, workshops, and her evolving body of healing-centered artistic practice.
She is Manhattan born.
Bull City raised.
Chocolate City grown.
And still blooming.