Colette Freedman is an internationally produced playwright with over 50 produced plays and musicals. Her play Sister Cities has been produced around the country and internationally, including Paris (Une Ville, Une Soeur), Rome (Le Quattro Sorelle), and Australia. She also wrote the novel and the film, which stars Jacki Weaver and Alfred Molina. She has authored ten books and is currently working on her eleventh. In collaboration with New York Times best-selling author Michael Scott, she wrote the thriller The Thirteen Hallows (Tor/Macmillan). Her other novels include The Affair and The Consequences (Kensington), Anomalies with Sadie Turner (Select Books), and I Wrote That One, Too with Steve Dorff (Backbeat Books).
She also wrote the film And Then There Was Eve which won best feature at the LA Film Festival 2017, and co-produced the film Quality Problems, which won several film festivals. Her film Miles Underwater is currently in post-production, and her film 7,000 Miles starring Wendie Malick about Amelia Earhart, can be seen on Amazon. She has produced and co-written over a dozen Lifetime thrillers with Brooke Purdy. Several short films Colette produced are currently on the festival circuit and in post production including two of her former students' films Colorhouse and Charlatan. Her feature film Pilgrim just won best feature at New York City Film Festival and she is producing a podcast Cheating History about righting the wrongs of the future by getting help from the past.
Colette has several scripts in development, including Joint Venture, Scattering Rachel, and The Last Bookstore, which won Grand Prize at the CWA awards, We Screenplay’s Diverse Voices, Best SciFi Feature Action on Film, and Richmond International Film Festival. Currently, her musical Serial Killer Barbie (Heuer Publishing) is gearing up for a tour of New Zealand, and Mozart the Musical, which she conceived of with Tegan Summer and was the dramaturg, had a sold-out run at Carnegie Hall in March 2023 and opened in London at the Drury Lane Theatre in November 2024. She recently made her West End Debut at the Lyric Theatre in April 2025 as co-book writer and lyricist in Bettie Page Queen of the Pinups: The Musical.
- Colgate University MAT
- Haverford College BA
- The Thirteen Hallows (Tor/MacMillan Publishing)
- Serial Killer Barbie (Heuer Publishing)
- Sister Cities (Heuer Publishing)
- The Affair (Kensington Publishing)
- The Consequences (Kensington Publishing)
- Anomalies (Select Books)
- I Wrote That One, Too (Backbeat Books)
- The Last Bookstore (Metamorfic Publishing)
- The Reluctant Fairy Godmother (Metamorfic Publishing)
- Tennis Dates (Outskirts Press)
- Her film Pilgrim won best feature at New York City Film Festival 2025
- “And Then There Was Eve” won Best Film at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
- “Quality Problems” won Best Film at the Texas Women’s Film Festival and Audience award at the Hell’s Half Mile Film Festival
- “First to the Egg” won the grand prize at the Urban Shorts festival
- “Ellipses…” won best play at Palm Springs Theatre Festival
- “The Last Bookstore” won Grand Prize at the CWA awards, We Screenplay’s Diverse Voices, Best SciFi Feature Action on Film and Richmond International Film Festival.
- As a commercial director, she has won 8 Telly, Addy, Vision, Summit International, and Communicator awards.
- WGA
- SAG
- Dramatist’s Guild