Blood, Sweat and Cheer

Directed By Traci Hays

A suburban divorcée masquerades as her teenage daughter in a twisted attempt to make the dance squad at a local high school.

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Former cheerleader Renee tries to recapture her glory days by living vicariously through her teen daughter, Cherie. Their strained relationship sours when Cherie quits her school’s dance team and moves in with her father. Realizing she can pass for a teenager, Renee enrolls in a new high school under Cherie’s name and joins the dance team to compete in the upcoming Fall Dance Classic to win Cherie a college scholarship.

Traci Hays is a DGA award–nominated director known for crafting female-centric, genre-blending stories with a strong visual edge. She currently has two A&E Lifetime Original features slated for release in 2026: an international holiday rom-com and a true-crime thriller starring Stana Katic. 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. A cum laude graduate of Chapman University, she honed her craft under industry legends Randal Kleiser, Martha Coolidge, and Oscar-nominated production designer Lawrence G. Paull.