A wandering Texas native, McCray finds inspiration rooted in psychological realism. Her intimate narratives evoke a sentiment both poignant and playful, revealing universal truths about society and the human psyche through nuanced idiosyncrasies. Her motifs often explore the inner worlds of “the quiet ones”, the dreamers, the marginalized, and those living on the frays. McCray’s visual lexicon is textured and colorful, navigating the rich, opulent chambers of imagination like private rooms in the minds of her protagonists. 

McCray’s aptitude for depicting the beauty and complexities of family life lends her work a poetic, anodyne quality; an incantation that urges the viewer to dig deeper. The tapestry of sounds in her films is a driving sensory perception for her storylines, a hypnotic and transportive synthesis of the external and internal. She likens sound to cartography, illuminating landscapes where the boundaries are blurry, overlap, or do not exist. 

A 2023 Film Independent Project Involve Directing Fellow and a recipient of Richard Linkater's Austin Film Society Feature Film Grant 2022, she splits her time between her native home of Texas and Los Angeles, California. In 2021, McCray was a resident at the Juanita J. Craft Artist Residency at the South Dallas Cultural Center where she developed her multi-media project MVMTLS. She is a University of Pennsylvania graduate and a DONA-certified doula.

McCray is currently developing her feature State Champs Eat Free—a cultural coming-of-age story set in the competitive club and varsity soccer worlds of Texas—and writing for the Apple TV+ series Firebug, based on a true crime podcast of the same name. A member of WGA West, she is represented by Echo Lake Management.