CULLEN
is a singer, songwriter, director and movement artist based in Brooklyn. All of her artistic work feeds into her desire to tell stories and connect with her audience. Always seeking to communicate an honest human experience, she works with whatever mediums support the message. CULLEN’s sonic work sits between alt pop, indie rock and spoken word. In addition to her primary instrument, the guitar, she is proficient in several others, as well as recording software.
While most of her work as a musician is created solo, she deeply values collaboration and pursues artistic partnerships in much of her other work. CULLEN has a long history as a musician, actor, choreographer and dancer. She creates the movement for her own work and choreographs for music videos, narrative film and live musicals. In addition to her work as a solo artist, she founded and is the artistic director of cullen+them, a performing arts non-profit.
ARTIST CV
2015-Present: Artistic Director of cullen+them
Write, direct and choreograph evening length works in collaboration with cullen+them. Create socially conscious movement and theater works performed live and on film.
Discography
Take Me Back — released March 2021
Holly — released August 2020
Music Composition
Solo (take one on a life’s work), solo performance by Hannah Cullen premiered February 2020
Everything I Was Never Taught, cullen+them premiered November 2019
Only Place, narrative dance film by Em Watson
Movement Direction for Film and Music Video
Take Me Back — music video for CULLEN, 2021
Trees: A Musical — created by Mur, 2020
Only Place — narrative dance film by Em Watson, post-production expected 2020
Magic — Linda Diaz music video, 2019
Directorial and Choreographic Experience
Solo (take one on a life’s work) — premiered February 2020 at RIOULT Dance NY
Susan Alexandra The Musical — premiered February 2020 at Public Arts
Trees — premiered January 2020 at LaMaMa Galleria
Everything I Was Never Taught — cullen+them, premiered November 2019 at New York Live Arts
Mark it in Pencil — cullen+them, premiered March 2018 at New York Live Arts
Custom Made — premiered September 2017 at The New Ohio Theater
Evidently we were not listening — cullen+them, premiered July 2017 at The Met Breuer
Study in Sorry — premiered February 2017 at New York Live Arts
Us, Me, They, She — cullen+them, premiered May 2015 at Ailey Citigroup Theater
2015-2018: Project Associate for Gloria Steinem
Assisted Gloria Steinem in running her office, social media campaigns and accompanied her to events and personal commitments
BFA New York University Tisch School of the Arts
photo by Alonzo Blanco