Colette in her true form
Colette Weber Shaw (b. 1999)
Colette Weber Shaw (She/they) is an award-winning playwright and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA. Colette’s work explores themes of magical realism, young adults struggling with identity, and personal transformation. Her most recent staged works include ‘Wired!‘ at Theater of Note (as part of Hollywood Fringe Festival), ‘Suicide Pact’ at the Elysian Theater, ‘Abbie’s Mom has Cancer’ at The Tank in NY, and a production of her full length play, ‘Treehouse’ at Sarah Lawrence College Theatre Department. Colette’s most recent film, ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’ is currently making the festival rounds, and her senior thesis, ‘The Grave Between You and Me’ has screened at Sister Midnight (LA), The Bush Films (NYC), and Cabin in the Woods Film Festival (Seattle). Her play How Not to be a Junkyard Dog won the national 2018 Young Playwright’s Festival produced by the Blank Theater and was performed at the Stella Adler Theater in Hollywood. She was a 2019 Semi-Finalist for the Young Playwright’s Festival and a Semi-Finalist in 2018 for the 35th Annual California Young Playwrights Contest for her play, The Night Shade Family.
Born in Los Angeles to professional artists Jim Shaw and Marnie Weber, Colette made first her on-screen debut at four years old as a cherubic angel in the iconic feature film, Day Is Done (2006), by world renowned artist Mike Kelley. Shaw would later star opposite of her artist mother in an independent feature film, The Day of Forevermore (2016), where she plays a young witch struggling to free herself from the burden of caring for her aging and delusional mother.
Colette Weber Shaw is currently getting her Master’s in Screenwriting at UCLA, and previously attended Sarah Lawrence College and The National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Shaw has notably worked at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, and on film productions with MIRMADE Productions, HBO, NBCU, Jane Doe Films and Chain Camera Pictures. Recently, Shaw was a Teaching Assistant for the Film Department at CSSSA, where she taught a character development workshop. Colette aims to create work that challenges, invigorates, and leaves the audience feeling seen.