Biography
Collette Cullen is actor/author/educator with a vision to create opportunity for all voices to soar.
Her career as a special educator with differently abled, marginalized children, influenced her writings. These children became her muses for the essential question “How do we access and embrace all voices? “
Helen Keller said that, “the day I met my teacher, was my soul’s birthday.”
This phrase is Collette’s call to action.
Theatre is a language, her works tools for discourse on voice, equity, access serving to inspire viewers.
The performance arts (playwriting/storytelling/acting) are her teaching tools
As an author/actor/educator, she encourages people to honor truth, their stories and dreams.
Her works are “calls to action,” transformative urgings honoring the ancestors, generating reflections and engagement of the audience.
Collette has performed her one woman play Annie Speaks (one woman show about Annie Sullivan) to national audiences, and has had her works performed in multiple venues including at The Detroit Reparatory Theatre.
In 2018 she was voted audience best for her play, Recollecting 67, a Story of Race, Rebellion and Reunion at the Detroit Fringe Festival and, won a best director award at DATA (Dearborn Area Theatre Association) for the monologue Dressed.
In 2019, her play Shedding Skin was featured at Meadow Brook Theater and Miss Eulalie’s monologue From Between the Thorns at Henry Ford College. Additionally, she curated a story telling event titled The Grandmother Project for the Hamtramck Neighborhood Arts Festival.
