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.
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.
One woman, many creative expressions
A writer. A playwright. A listener.
A woman who knows what a room can carry.
Emily “Claudette” Freeman 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.
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.
Built to let each person enter where the connection feels most natural.
Speaking & Facilitation
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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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.
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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Notes on Claudette’s books, stage work, writing experiences, and current projects.
Emily Claudette Freeman
Author • Playwright • Speaker • Facilitator • Keeper of Sacred Stories
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Words that live, dance, move, inspire, and transform.