Celeste O'Connor

Personal context

Summary

Celeste O’Connor is an actor and co-founder of the production company Pedestal, known for Selah and the Spades, Freaky, the Ghostbusters films, and Madame Web. Their creative work includes an explicit commitment to Afrofuturist stories imagining liberated futures for black people and to creating space for women, especially black women, to exercise creative autonomy. O’Connor has described questioning gender as personally important, spoken about building community with black queer people, and helped raise awareness of PrEP in Baltimore. Their public statements also call for more Black producers, directors, and writers to tell their own stories; no public party campaigning or conservative advocacy is on record.