Jonathan Andre Culliton
writer - director - producer
Jonathan Andre Culliton is a Boston-born, California-based trans filmmaker and comedy writer. A graduate of the New York Film Academy, Culliton is the creator of “Bombshell,” a digital series streaming on Amazon. It was the first ever comedy to feature a gay trans masc character as the lead.
Culliton is the director and co-writer of “Spookable,” a horror comedy short starring Alexandra Grey and Marval Rex. The film was produced by Zackary Drucker and selected by Lillly Wachowski for Maryland Film Festival, before moving on to play at Frameline48, Prism 37, and Stamped 2024. The roll-out for his newest film, “Willa Justice: Drag Queen Private Eye,” begins this September with selections to Out on Film, Fishnets&Film, Silicon Valley Queer Film Festival, Utah Queer Film Festival, and Stamped.
Culliton produced Michael Yip’s award-winning musical short “The Gay Mafia” and Sarah Taborga’s ball culture doc “Dear Queer Dancer” for PBS. He is currently in post production on “Outage,” a desert alien story from director Graham Kolbeins, starring Emmett Preciado.
Culliton also has decades of experience as talent. Getting his start as a child in Boston’s theater scene and in regional PSA’s, Culliton started hosting the Girl Scout Show on cable access television when he was eleven years old. Today, in the podcast world, Culliton hosts “The Trans Cinematic Universe,” an immersive deep dive into trans and queer cinema and co-hosts “Baking and Blu-rays,” a YouTube show alongside Kolbeins. Culliton makes an appearance in the Agender music video “Top Bottom Top,” an official selection of Outfest 2022, and “American Masculinity” for Tom of Finland at the Liminal Space Gallery.
Along with Kolbeins, Culliton is founder and curator of the 29 Queer Film Festival, a collaboration with the tourism board of Twentynine Palms, CA. 29QFF is an immersive, multi-media festival designed to showcase and celebrate desert-based filmmakers with unique elements like drag bingo, themed snacks from the films, and prop exhibits.
jonathanandreculliton@gmail.com
“Jon is a brilliantly cracked filmmaker who has done and is doing projects that are/will be understood as absolute gems of trans culture. Also a TRUE delight of a human.”
-Scott Turner Schofield (Emmy-nominated actor, producer, trans activist)