Christiane Schull was born in London, England and raised outside Montreal in a family of writers.
She began her career in Toronto as a freelance journalist with a national feature on homeless women across Canada (Today magazine, April, 1981). She was hired as an assistant to Dodie Robb, head of Children’s TV at CBC. Highlight: Robb tapped her as a scribe to translate the surreal poetic vision of artist /skater Toller Cranston onto the page (initial draft/treatment) for his TV special Strawberry Ice (1982, CBC/ABC). She segued into advertising copywriting (McDonald’s, United Way, Gulf Oil) and worked at The Stratford Shakespearean Festival, in Stratford, Ontario as a junior publicist under the tutelage of legendary publicist, Mary Jolliffe, and later, Elizabeth Bradley.
In 1992, she was hired as a researcher and field producer on two seasons of “Missing Treasures: The Search for Our Lost Children” (Global TV), a docu-drama series on missing, murdered and runaway children. She interviewed families, attorneys, investigators, homicide detectives, social workers etc. In 1994, she joined “Mysterious Forces Beyond” – a documentary series on true cases of the paranormal and unexplained (Global/TLC -The Learning Channel).
Highlights included shows on Alien Abduction and The Philadelphia Experiment. She had the pleasure of interviewing Dr John Mack, the esteemed professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School on his visionary and controversial exploration and investigation of alien abduction and abductees or contactees.
She went to Haiti, during the American forces invasion in 1994, with a small production team to pursue a story on the religion of the real Vodun (Voodoo) – the mystical beauty of the Afro-Haitian religion distinct from its politicized forms. Thanks to a fixer, a journalist on the ground, the team secured an interview with Emmanuel Constant, head of FRAPH – The Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti – a paramilitary organization alleged to have murdered more than 5,000 civilians. She wrote about her experience in an article published in Canadian woman’s magazine (1995).
In 1996/7, inspired by a dark comedy writing commission, based on an article she wrote (“Talk TV: 15 Minutes of Shame”, Globe & Mail, 1995), she moved to Los Angeles.
In 1998, for PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal, a dramatic series based on the true cases of the Office for Scientific Investigation and Research (OSIR), she wrote episode #7, The Labyrinth. CBS/Eyemark, Atlantis/Alliance Productions.
That same year, she was part of a production team for an A&E Special Edition of Investigative Reports, ‘Peace, Love and Murder: The Ira Einhorn Story’. Ira Einhorn was a charismatic, soft-spoken, counterculture guru and environmental activist, beloved in literary circles. Accused of the murder of his girlfriend, Holly Maddux (1977), he went on the run, escaping to France. Christiane interviewed Holly Maddux’s family, two sisters and a brother, attorneys, friends, and the Philadelphia District Attorney in their quest to capture and return Einhorn to the United States.
In Los Angeles, she pursued her dual passion for the healing arts, working with groups and private clients as a Certified Breathwork practitioner(1990). She facilitated weekly experiential circles for men and women from 2000-2010. The foundation of her practice since 2002 is the ancestral forgiveness and peacemaking prayer technology of Howard Wills, a profound, precise, and effective tool for increased joy, Love, Light, empowerment, freedom, peace and well-being .
She is a ghostwriter and interviewed/wrote for the legendary, Rickson Gracie, undefeated champion of Jiu-Jitsu (2002 & 2005). She ghosted the book, ‘Truth Heals’, for client Deborah King, published by Influence Press, 2006/7; Bestseller in 2nd printing, Hay House, 2009/2010.
She is the author of What You Speak Is Seeking You, an inspirational book, with pictures by Nicole Katano (2006/7).
In 2013, in Toronto, she joined 40 other creatives in a 30-day experiment developing content for Bauhub/Wayward Arts magazine. She was part of a team exploring the future of work in a double-page spread devoted to the multi-skilled polymath or The New Specialist.
In 2021, she completed a narrative non-fiction work about a mystical encounter, based on true events.