C.C. Kellogg is a film/ theatre practitioner and researcher making work between the US and UK.
She is the facilitating artistic director of Invulnerable Nothings, a theater collective she co-founded in Brooklyn in 2016 and continues to spearhead, as well as the lead producer at Valmora Productions, which focuses on supporting emerging female creatives in film and digital media.
Her academic work is based at Bath Spa University, where she is a current PhD candidate in the School of Music and Performing Arts.
Theatre-
As a director and facilitator, C.C. has helmed the majority of Invulnerable Nothings’ original works over the last ten years, including nine full productions and many readings, labs, and workshops. The collective’s environmental and multimedia stagings have been critic’s picks with The Guardian, TimeOUT, Brooklyn Magazine, and The Austin Chronicle; InvulNos’ body of work can be explored in more detail on the company website here. C.C. has also directed for The Motor Company, Adult Film, and Arcola Theatre Creative Engagement as well as in educational settings.
As a writer for the stage, C.C. has developed/ premiered her work with Fresh Ground Pepper + The Rough Rider Museum (Billy The Kidd Are Alive and Well, 2019), The Coronet Theatre London as part of Inside/Out with Hanif Kureishi (Zoom Funeral, 2020), and Theatre Royal Bath Elevate (The Silver Fish, 2023; Asta Nielsen’s Hamlet, 2024, both with Invulnerable Nothings). She has previously written for The Village Voice, The Daily Beast, Constellation Mag, and Centre on the Aisle, most often on theatre. Additional theatrical credits with The McKittrick Hotel, The Brick, Exponential Festival, Built for Collapse, Dixon Place, and PRELUDE Fest as well as residencies with Shakespeare’s Globe, Theater Mitu, The Brooklyn Art Library, and The New York Public Library. C.C. has been an ongoing resident of The Studio since 2022.
Film-
C.C. works in film primarily as a producer and screenwriter. She has served as a lead producer on three previously released feature films: Jaclyn Bethany’s queer thriller The Falling World (Cinequest world premier 2022, distributed via Gravitas), Clemy Clarke’s debut feature Hi How Are You? (Santa Monica Film Festival world premier 2023, shot remotely on iPhone in 8 countries, distributed via FLMKR), and Bethany and Greta Bellamacina’s Tell That To The Winter Sea (FilmBath, NOT Film Festival, LAFemme {Best International Film} 2024; distributed via Kaleidoscope with a theatrical release in the UK).
Alex Sarrigeorgiou’s debut In Transit , starring Jennifer Ehle and filmed on location in Maine and New York, is C.C.’s fourth feature film project as an originating producer; it is currently in post production and slated for a 2025 festival release. Valmora has two European co-productions in the preproduction phase: Kristin Winters’ Croatian Drzi Mamu and the Italian language feature length version of Paola Calliari’s The Long Step, as well as Bethany and Bellamacina’s next feature All Five Eyes currently shooting in Kent, UK.
Under the Valmora Productions banner, C.C. has also produced numerous shorts and emerging media works, including several VR and XR projects. Notable short projects include After Anyuta (dir Clemy Clarke, HollyShorts world premier 2020, Sharjah Art Foundation 2021, available via NoBudge here) which C.C. both adapted and produced, as well as Paola Calliari and Michael Sandoval’s The Long Step, which premiered as part of the Venice Bienniale special Italian Cinema+Arts section in 2024. Valmora’s various projects have screened extensively at over 30 film festivals worldwide.
Academic & Educational-
C.C.’s academic work explores mediated performance and the collision of the filmic, theatrical, and digital spheres vis a vis live capture. She is currently pursuing her PhD at Bath Spa University, where she received an MA with distinction in 2018; her master’s work focused on new media practice and King Lear. C.C. holds an undergraduate degree in English and Certificate in Theater from Princeton University. She has presented and published her original research with the American Shakespeare Center, The Shakespeare Association of America, The Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-Upon-Avon/ BritGrad, The New York Shakespeare Convention, University of Birmingham, Loyola University, and the Association of Adaptation Studies.
Fundraising & Administrative-
C.C. is an experienced fundraiser— she has successfully lead independent projects to receive grants, sponsorship, and direct support from the BFI (British Film Institute), A.R.T. New York, The Mellon Foundation, The Watermill Center, The Keats-Shelley Association of America, Mississippi Arts Commission/ National Endowment for the Arts, Film Independent, and many others. She honed her fundraising skills working on the administrative teams for St. Ann’s Warehouse and Arcola Theatre.
Contact-
Please get in touch at ckelloggc@gmail.com or send a direct message via Twitter
photo by Danny Baldwin