Biography

Traci Hays is a DGA award-nominated director known for crafting female-centric, genre-blending stories with a strong visual edge. She has two A&E Lifetime Original features slated for release in 2026, a true-crime thriller starring Stana Katic (Castle) and an international holiday rom-com.

Her previous directing credits include the Fox Entertainment-produced Tubi Original On The Run, winner of four Telly Awards and landed on Tubi's Most Liked List; international dark comedy My Bloody Galentine, and psychological thriller Blood, Sweat, and Cheer, named one of Tubi's Top 10 Originals by Vulture and Screen Rant. Traci's bold visual style is rooted in over a decade of hands-on production design experience, working across more than 30 film and television projects with A-list talent including Michael Shannon, Kate Hudson, Josh Duhamel, and John Rhys-Davies.

A cum laude graduate of Chapman University, she honed her craft under industry legends Randal Kleiser (Grease), Martha Coolidge (Valley Girl), and Oscar-nominated production designer Lawrence G. Paull (Back to the Future).
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