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Celeste is back in the booth and will be recording (and in some cases re-recording) the Cookies & Chance Mystery Series by USA Today bestselling author, Catherine Bruns!  So get the first in the series, Tastes Like Murder on Amazon or Audible! (Ari, is it possible to add a link to the Amazon audio book, Tastes Like Murder?)

Earlier this year she played the role of Ellen in The Waverly Gallery at Shaker Bridge Theatre directed by Bill Coons.

Last year she understudied and performed the role of Sladjana at The Roundabout Theatre Company in Archduke, by Rajiv Joseph, directed by Darko Tresnjak.  She also played The Nurse in The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ’s production of Romeo & Juliet, directed by Bonnie Monte.

Celeste appeared in two films which premiered in 2025, a short film by Karin Yamamoto called “Only Intermission”, and the documentary, “This Place Matters! Ten Chimneys.”

For the last five years, Celeste has been the co-host of The NoNaMe StoryTellers Podcast.

In October of 2024, Celeste won an award for “Special Performance” at TEATR POWSZECHNY RADOM for her portrayal of The Drunkard and The Ambassador in The Marriage by Witold Gombrowicz, which originated at La Mama in NYC.

Celeste is a 2010 Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship recipient and Callaway Award winning stage actress and voiceover artist born and based in New York City. She was awarded a March 2011 AudioFile Earphones Award for Ensemble Narration of Nicole Krauss’ “Great House”, is a graduate of Northwestern and Harvard Universities and is a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

Enchanted April -Shakespeare Theatre of NJ
Scapin – Pioneer Theatre Company
Macbeth – Arizona Theatre Company

“Perhaps my favorite performer was the severe and biting wit of Celeste Ciulla, who played Arganta, the overbearing mother of one of the lovers. Ciulla brought a greatly heightened sense of the stakes to each scene. There is a long exchange where Scapin is swindling a few hundred pistoles from Arganta, and each time Scapin upped the ante, Ciulla was able to believably articulate a character who had just reached the threshold of what she would pay — even to save her own child. Each time, as Arganta was coaxed out of a bit more money, the arc was dynamic and believable in a way that doing this kind of circular bit often misses. It is a testament to the chemistry between actors and the profound understanding of Arganta’s character that Ciulla brought to the stage. Ciulla’s performance was hilarious, and I always anticipated her reentering the space.”

Reviews – Salt Lake City

“Meanwhile, the cook/maid, Costanza (Celeste Ciulla), whose dialog is almost wholly in Italian—as is her attitude—brings laughter to every scene she’s in. Impatient with the demanding Mrs. Graves, affectionate with the castle owner, she sees and understands all.”

The Front Row Center: New York Theatre

“There’s plenty of uncomplicated pleasure to be found in this thoroughly agreeable production, above all from Celeste Ciulla, who not only sparkles as Mistress Page but pulls out a fiddle at one point and starts sawing away on ‘Old Joe Clark.’ That’s what I call versatility!”

The Wall Street Journal