Gracie Oddie-James

Gracie is a writer and actor impassioned by crafting incisive social commentary, particularly spotlighting people of colour. 

Her focus is inspired by her experiences as a mixed-race woman, navigating a family dynamic that spanned working-class first-generation immigrants to middle-class white Londoners, and an education that journeyed from underfunded state schools to private school scholarships. This converged in her debut play  ‘F*CKING WHITE BOYS’ – performed at the McQueen’s, Duke of York and Soho Theatre. She is now developing this for TV. 

During her time at Oxford studying History, Gracie reckoned with the wealth of histories that tutors refused to be told — histories that evidenced a nuanced and tangled national story.  In writing these stories she is keen to create work that promotes a new cultural relationship with Britain’s past free from the structures of old academia. 

Gracie has trained with The National Youth Theatre and Collage Voices and continues to be an ambassador for their work.