Artistic Autobiography

Grace Theresa Macedo was born in New Hyde Park, New York on March 17^th, 1997.  She lived in a basement apartment with her Great Grandma until she was Two and a half and moved into the house she currently resides in in New Hyde Park. Grace as a child was very over dramatic so naturally she felt acting was her calling. Her first audition was for the Ellie Greenwich Musical at Center Street Elementary School. She landed a singing role as Dee Dee singing "Today I Met the Boy I'm Gonna Marry."

After her first taste of theater Grace was hooked and later starred in various Herricks Middle School productions such as The Music Man, The Sound of Music, and Guys and Dolls. Grace's biggest role and personal favorite was of Elsa in the Sound of Music because she felt the character had similar struggles to her own. During the course of her middle school career Grace took private singing lessons at Laconia Music Center and also from Susan Kalman. Grace is a free spirited girl and as a result took up painting in her middle school time as well. She was inspired by the works of Georgia O'Keefe, mainly painting different types of flowers. As high school grew close Grace auditioned for a special arts program named STAC. She auditioned for acting, singing and submitted pictures she had taken for photography. She was accepted into the program her freshman year. Grace worked in acting workshops in STAC, but when the fall play came around she was surprised when she did not make the cut. Taken aback by this rejection she slowly dabbled in the field of moviemaking. Grace had a fascination with abusive relationships at the time and decided to make a music video about it to the song "Unbeautiful," by Lesley Roy . Grace continued to write different scripts for different projects and after being in charge of some movies decided she liked directing. Grace continues to switch fields in the artistic community trying to find her true calling.

 

            Graces’s philosophy is to do whatever makes her the happiest, which is the main reason she is always trying something new.  She is still searching for her passion within STAC (Students Television Arts Company) run by Luke Delalio at Herricks High School. At the moment Grace is unsure of what she wants to do in any aspect of her life and hopes to be able to figure that out sooner rather than later.