Author • Playwright • Speaker • Facilitator • Keeper of Sacred Stories
Words that live.
Stories that move.
Rooms that remember
Emily Claudette Freeman is an author, playwright, speaker, facilitator, and lifelong gatherer of story. Her work lives where memory, faith, family, voice, humor, grief, courage, and creative becoming meet.
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Author • Playwright • Speaker • Facilitator • Keeper of Sacred Stories
Words that live.
Stories that move.
Rooms that remember
Emily Claudette Freeman is an author, playwright, speaker, facilitator, and lifelong gatherer of story. Her work lives where memory, faith, family, voice, humor, grief, courage, and creative becoming meet.
Invite Claudette to Speak
One woman, many creative expressions
Emily Claudette Freeman
A writer. A playwright. A listener.
A woman who knows what a room can carry.
For more than three decades, Claudette has written for pages and stages, listened for the truth inside ordinary conversation, and created spaces where people can tell the truth without having to flatten it. Her creative life stretches from theatre and books to radio, writing rooms, retreats, journals, audio reflections, paper goods, and the kind of mail that still feels personal.
Her work is rooted in an abiding belief: words can carry memory, witness, faith, laughter, questions, and possibility at the same time. The right story can stay with a person long after the room empties.
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Five ways in
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Some visitors arrive looking for a speaker. Some need a writing room. Some want a story to read, a play to produce, a journal to write in, or a small piece of encouragement waiting in the mailbox. ECF is built to let each person enter where the connection feels most natural.
Speaking + Facilitation
Bring a consummate storyteller into the room.
Bring a consummate storyteller into the room. Claudette blends literary instinct, lived experience, faith-rooted wisdom, humor, and honest exchange in speaking engagements, workshops, retreats, women’s gatherings, conferences, community spaces, and creative events.
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The ECF world
Emily Claudette Freeman creates words, stories, rooms, and experiences that live beyond the moment.
Across books, plays, speaking, writing experiences, audio, paper, and snail mail, her work makes space for people to hear what they carry, name what matters, and stay close to the stories still becoming.
Creative worlds
Page, stage, room, mic, mailbox.
Words can carry memory, witness, faith, laughter, questions, and possibility at the same time.
The right story can stay with a person long after the room empties.
Emily Claudette Freeman
And there is more to the story.
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Speak + Gather
When a room is ready for truth, story should know how to enter.
Emily Claudette Freeman brings story, literary instinct, faith-rooted wisdom, lived experience, warmth, humor, and genuine audience exchange into speaking engagements, workshops, retreats, panels, and community gatherings.
Stories about people. And the conversations that reveal them.
On Substack, readers can follow Claudette’s fiction, essays, creative reflections, serialized worlds, and the ideas taking shape in a writer’s head. Sweet Tee’s invites readers into one of her fictional worlds. Writing in My Head opens the door to the creator’s process, questions, craft, and lived writing life.
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Sweet Tee’s
A fictional world, told in installments.
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Sweet Tee’s
A fictional world, told in installments.
A working history
Playwright and author since 1988
Apprentice to Ntozake Shange at the Atlantic Center for the Arts
Work selected, staged, or developed through theatre festivals, universities, and companies across multiple cities
24 years in South Florida radio
Commissioned by the Miami Sports & Exhibition Authority
Published fiction, journals, devotional and collective works
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Emily Claudette Freeman
Author • Playwright • Speaker • Facilitator • Keeper of Sacred Stories
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