“Actors should write. Actors should direct. Actors should produce. Don’t just act. Don’t just wait for the phone call. You are an actor so ACT. Be proACTive. Otherwise you’re reACTing.”
Welcome back to Nothing Shines Like Dirt Episode 72. Elise and Lesley sit down Writer/Filmmaker Collette Freedman. They discuss her feature film Miles Under Water, being a structure Queen and Don’t Ask Permission!”
COLETTE FREEDMAN - An internationally produced playwright, novelist and screenwriter. With over 60 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 25 times, including Paris (Une Ville, Une Soeur) and Rome (Le Quattro Sorelle) and was made into a film starring Jacki Weaver. Her novels include The Affair, The Thirteen Hallows and The Reluctant Fairy Godmother and I Wrote That One, Too. She teaches screenwriting at Antioch, NYFA and Studio Arts. Colette ghost writes and script doctors and has had four indie films produced in the last four years www.colettefreedman.com