Celestine Rae
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Celestine Rae was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to an Italian/German
American mother and African American father who encouraged her creativity and self expression at a very young age. A shy child, Celestine fell in love with the art of dance and it was on stage that she found ...
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David Staller with Daniel Jenkins, Robbie Simpson, Tony D. Head, Mike Smith Rivera, A.J. Shively, Susanna Frazer, Celestine Rae, Kathy Gail Macgowan, Maryann Plunkett and Mirirai Sithole

David Staller, Ingrid Pierson and Andrea Miller with Daniel Jenkins, Robbie Simpson, Tony D. Head, Mike Smith Rivera, A.J. Shively, Susanna Frazer, Celestine Rae,Kathy Gail MacGowan, Maryann Plunkett and Mirirai Sithole
Celestine Rae Biography
Celestine Rae was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to an Italian/GermanAmerican mother and African American father who encouraged her creativity and self expression at a very young age. A shy child, Celestine fell in love with the art of dance and it was on stage that she found herself and her calling.
Celestine performed in school plays in grade school and would volunteer to choreograph the dance numbers in her shows as well as at her dance studio. Her passion for dance quickly grew into a love for acting as she was nicknamed 'Face' by choreographer and former Alvin Ailey company dancer, David St. Charles, for her passion and expression while performing in his narrative ballets. She was encouraged to pursue acting by many of her dance teachers and began to audition for plays and short films while in college.
Two weeks after graduating from Temple University with a B.A. degree in English,
Celestine immediately relocated to New York City to pursue her career as an actress full time. She trained at The William Esper Studio under Terry Knickerbocker, graduating from the Meisner Conservatory Program.
Celestine has performed in several off Broadway productions in New York as well as numerous films and television shows.
Celestine Rae News

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 21, 2022
Project Y Theatre Company will present the final programming in the 7th Annual Women in Theatre Festival: ALL HANDS ON DECK, a reading and commission series dedicated to supporting the creation of new works by Female playwrights of the African diaspora.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 16, 2022
Keen Company Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein today announced that The Keen Teens Festival of New Work will offer three new one-acts by C. Quintana, Bleu Beckford-Burell, and Stephanie Swirsky, featuring a cast of New York City high school students.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 18, 2022
Project Y Theatre Company commissioned 5 female playwrights to write 'Hybrid 2-Handers' as the centerpiece of this year's hybrid Women in Theatre Festival, a festival of new work written and created by women, originally conceived to be written for and performed to an in-person and streaming audience simultaneously.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 19, 2021
The Billie Holiday Theatre has announced the return of its monologue showcase series - 50in50 – with a special fifth anniversary edition of the show - 50in50: Shattering the Glass Ceiling. For this year’s show, 50 original monologues were selected from women of African descent from across the globe and will be read by 50 women actors.

by A.A. Cristi - Sep 23, 2020
Art imitates life when the Fountain Theatre presents Talking Peace, a new 10-minute, site-specific a?oeZoom-within-a-Zooma?? by acclaimed playwright France-Luce Benson.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 3, 2020
The AUDELCO and Obie-Award-winning Billie Holiday Theatre will present a special virtual edition of its popular 50in50 monologue showcase series with the highly anticipated 50in50:Letters to Our Sons as part of its new #StayAtHome Reading Series, an innovative online play reading series.

by Genevieve Rafter Keddy - Feb 25, 2020
Gingold Theatrical Group continued the 15th Season of Project Shaw, a special series of evenings of plays that embrace human rights and free speech, with What Every Woman Knows by James M. Barrie for one night only on Monday February 24th (7pm).

by A.A. Cristi - Feb 18, 2020
The Billie Holiday Theatre is proud to announce the cast and selected writers for the fourth monologue showcase of its popular series - 50in50: Letters to Our Sons.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 27, 2020
Gingold Theatrical Group (David Staller, Artistic Director) will continue the 15th Season of Project Shaw, a special series of evenings of plays that embrace human rights and free speech.

by A.A. Cristi - Mar 20, 2019
American Slavery Project Presents BLACK WOMEN AND THE BALLOT as part of its spring reading series: The ABC's - African-Americans from Bondage through Crow