Biographie
Colette Freedman - An internationally produced playwright with over 25 produced plays, Colette was voted "One of 50 to Watch" by The Dramatist's Guild. Her play Sister Cities was the hit of the Edinburgh Fringe and earned five star reviews: It has been produced around the country and internationally, 31 times including Paris (Une Ville, Une Soeur), Rome (Le Quattro Sorelle) and Australia. She wrote the film which stars Jacki Weaver, Alfred Molina, Jess Weixler, Stana Katic, Michelle Trachtenberg, Amy Smart, Troian Bellisario, Tom Everett Scott and Kathy Baker. It can currently be seen on Lifetime and Netflix. The Sister Cities novel came out December 2016.
Colette has co-written, with International bestselling novelist Jackie Collins, the play Jackie Collins Hollywood Lies, which is gearing up for a National Tour. In collaboration with The New York Times best selling author Michael Scott, she wrote the thriller The Thirteen Hallows (Tor/Macmillan). Her novel The Affair (Kensington) came out in, 2013. The play of the novel earned both critical and commercial success as it toured Italy February in 2013 and Antwerp in 2016. Her sequel novel The Consequences (Kensington) came out in 2014. The audio books came out in 2020.
Her YA novel Anomalies, co-written with Sadie Turner, Anomalies (Select Books) came out 2016. The audio book came out in 2018. Her memoir about Steve Dorff I Wrote That One Too, came out in 2017. The audio book came out in 2019. Her children's book The Reluctant Fairy Godmother, with Kimberly Much, came out in 2019.
Colette also co-wrote the film And Then There Was Eve, with Savannah Bloch, which won The Los Angeles Film Festival in 2017 and is distributed by Breaking Glass Pictures. She also co-produced the film Quality Problems, which won a slew of awards including best film and best ensemble and is distributed by Freestyle. Colette has AP'd several Lifetime films including Deadly Sugar Daddy and Nanny Danger - both out in 2020.
Colette has several scripts in development which she co-wrote with Brooke Purdy, including Miles Underwater (which is in post production) as well as Joint Venture, Scattering Rachel, Decay, Therapy and The Last Bookstore, which won Grand Prize at the CWA awards, We Screenplay's Diverse Voices and Best Science Fiction Feature for Action on Film.
