Fractured, tormented, enchanted, authentic lives
Fractured, tormented, enchanted, authentic lives
Fractured, tormented, enchanted, authentic lives
Energized family rooms
Invigorating church pews
Awakened front porches
They all speak, loudly!
Energized family rooms
Invigorating church pews
Awakened front porches
They all speak, loudly!
Emily Claudette Freeman writes plays and screen work that listen closely to family, faith, memory, silence, grief, humor, survival, inheritance, and the complicated ways people try to become whole.
Fractured, tormented, enchanted, authentic lives
Fractured, tormented, enchanted, authentic lives
Energized family rooms
Invigorating church pews
Awakened front porches
They all speak, loudly!
The Slumber Party, University of North Carolina - Charlotte, February 2026
Fractured, tormented, enchanted, authentic lives
Fractured, tormented,
enchanted, authentic lives
Energized family rooms
Invigorating church pews
Awakened front porches
They all speak, loudly!
Energized family rooms
Invigorating church pews
Awakened front porches
Emily Claudette Freeman writes plays and screen work that listen closely to family, faith, memory, silence, grief, humor, survival, inheritance, and the complicated ways people try to become whole.
The Slumber Party, University of North Carolina - Charlotte, February 2026
Let's talk about readings, productions,
licensing, development, and commission opportunities.
Let's talk about readings, productions,
licensing, development, and commission opportunities.
Truth with somewhere to stand.
For producing directors, artistic directors, and development partners
Heritage Ensemble Theatre Company
National Black Theatre Festival
Quest Theatre’s Loften Mitchell New Playwrights’ Festival
Atlanta Black Theatre Festival
Women’s Theatre Festival of Memphis
Chattanooga Black Arts and Ideas Festival
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Miami Sports & Exhibition Authority
Pacific Northwest Multicultural Readers Series & Film Festival
Let's talk about readings, productions,
licensing, development, and commission opportunities.
Truth with somewhere to stand. For producing directors, artistic directors, and development partners
Heritage Ensemble Theatre Company
National Black Theatre Festival
Quest Theatre’s Loften Mitchell New Playwrights’ Festival
Atlanta Black Theatre Festival
Women’s Theatre Festival of Memphis
Chattanooga Black Arts and Ideas Festival
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Miami Sports & Exhibition Authority
Pacific Northwest Multicultural Readers Series & Film Festival
Let's talk about readings, productions,
licensing, development, and commission opportunities.
The Unveiling of Gussie
A biographical theatrical work centered on Augusta Savage, the Harlem Renaissance sculptor, teacher, arts leader, and Black woman artist whose creative calling was shaped by family conflict, public struggle, and the cost of being misunderstood.
Let's talk about readings, productions,
licensing, development, and commission opportunities.
Truth with somewhere to stand.
For producing directors, artistic directors, and development partners
Let's talk about readings, productions,
licensing, development, and commission opportunities.
Heritage Ensemble Theatre Company
National Black Theatre Festival
Quest Theatre’s Loften Mitchell New Playwrights’ Festival
Atlanta Black Theatre Festival
Women’s Theatre Festival of Memphis
Chattanooga Black Arts and Ideas Festival
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Miami Sports & Exhibition Authority
Pacific Northwest Multicultural Readers Series & Film Festival
The Unveiling of Gussie
A biographical theatrical work centered on Augusta Savage, the Harlem Renaissance sculptor, teacher, arts leader, and Black woman artist whose creative calling was shaped by family conflict, public struggle, and the cost of being misunderstood.
What Ignites the Playwright
Claudette is drawn to characters standing at the edge of truth: women reclaiming pieces of themselves, families negotiating silence and inheritance, parents and children wrestling with absence and love, communities remembering what history tried to bury, and souls trying to make peace with God, love, memory, and themselves.
Her work is interested in what happens after the wound is named, and people still have to decide how they will live
What happens after the wound is named
What happens after the wound is named
What Ignites the Playwright
Claudette is drawn to characters standing at the edge of truth: women reclaiming pieces of themselves, families negotiating silence and inheritance, parents and children wrestling with absence and love, communities remembering what history tried to bury, and souls trying to make peace with God, love, memory, and themselves.
Her work is interested in what happens after the wound is named, and people still have to decide how they will live
A Closer Look at a Few Works
A Closer Look at a Few Works
Peeing In a Soda Bottle
A one-woman work built around Chayonne, an older woman whose rough edges, unfiltered language, pain, joy, faith, wisdom, regret, and front-porch way of seeing the world force the audience to decide whether wisdom is still wisdom when it arrives in packaging society has learned to dismiss.
Remembering Papa
A family gathers around memory, laughter, resentment, longing, disconnect, and the complicated emotional inheritance. The play allows affection and ache to occupy the same room through the pained observations of three siblings.
The Way My Mama Loves Me
A mother-daughter story about love, conflict, forgiveness, history, and the sometimes bruising ways family members try to give and receive the love they understand.
And Daddy Came Home
Inspired by a radio conversation about absentee Black fathers who later return, the work asks a difficult question: when a father comes home, do the adult children he left behind have to accept what he has returned to offer?
A Closer Look at a Few Works
A Closer Look at a Few Works
Peeing In a Soda Bottle
A one-woman work built around Chayonne, an older woman whose rough edges, unfiltered language, pain, joy, faith, wisdom, regret, and front-porch way of seeing the world force the audience to decide whether wisdom is still wisdom when it arrives in packaging society has learned to dismiss.
Remembering Papa
A family gathers around memory, laughter, resentment, longing, disconnect, and the complicated emotional inheritance. The play allows affection and ache to occupy the same room through the pained observations of three siblings.
The Way My Mama Loves Me
A mother-daughter story about love, conflict, forgiveness, history, and the sometimes bruising ways family members try to give and receive the love they understand.
And Daddy Came Home
Inspired by a radio conversation about absentee Black fathers who later return, the work asks a difficult question: when a father comes home, do the adult children he left behind have to accept what he has returned to offer?
A Closer Look at a Few Works
A Closer Look at a Few Works
Peeing In a Soda Bottle
A one-woman work built around Chayonne, an older woman whose rough edges, unfiltered language, pain, joy, faith, wisdom, regret, and front-porch way of seeing the world force the audience to decide whether wisdom is still wisdom when it arrives in packaging society has learned to dismiss.
Remembering Papa
A family gathers around memory, laughter, resentment, longing, disconnect, and the complicated emotional inheritance. The play allows affection and ache to occupy the same room through the pained observations of three siblings.
The Way My Mama Loves Me
A mother-daughter story about love, conflict, forgiveness, history, and the sometimes bruising ways family members try to give and receive the love they understand.
And Daddy Came Home
Inspired by a radio conversation about absentee Black fathers who later return, the work asks a difficult question: when a father comes home, do the adult children he left behind have to accept what he has returned to offer?
The Unveiling of Gussie
A biographical theatrical work centered on Augusta Savage, the Harlem Renaissance sculptor, teacher, arts leader, and Black woman artist whose creative calling was shaped by family conflict, public struggle, and the cost of being misunderstood.
Production Inquiry
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Share what you are producing, developing, licensing, or dreaming up. Claudette and her team will respond with possibilities for staging or collaboration.
Emily Claudette Freeman
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