ABOUT CINDI

ABOUT CINDI

Cindi Sansone-Braff, the Romance Whisperer, talks with the dead to show you how to live well and love better. She is an author, award-winning playwright, relationship and dating expert, mystic, psychic medium, and Tarot-therapist. She has a BFA from the University of Connecticut and is the author of three spiritual, self-help books, Grant Me a Higher Love, Why Good People Can’t Leave Bad Relationships, and her latest, Confessions of a Reluctant Long Island Psychic. She was named Best Psychic by the Long Island Press five years in a row and featured in Cablevision’s Neighborhood Journal, Newsday, the Daily News, and the Reader’s Digest. She has been heard on radio stations nationwide and hosts a weekly call-in

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She has been cited as a relationship expert and psychic in many publications and websites, including the Huffington Post, BravoTV.com, Bustle, Daily Tribune, Thought Catalog, Healthline, and Your Tango. She has thousands of clients who can attest to the accuracy of her readings, and many well-known celebrities are among her biggest fans.

 

During her career, Cindi has been a professional children’s entertainer, dancer, choreographer, director, playwright, and theatrical agent. She has performed in and directed more than ten thousand shows, including a summer-long dance concert sponsored by the city of New York and several university productions. Performing at Lincoln Center as a professional belly dancer with the dance troupe, The Magic Lamp Dancers, was the highlight of her dance career. She is also a Hawaiian and Tahitian dancer.

Cindi is a proud member of the Long Island Authors’ Group and the Dramatists Guild. Her full-length drama, A Whole, Empty House, was a finalist in the Robert A. Forest Playwriting Competition. Her full-length romantic comedy, Angel’s Mice and Men, was a finalist in Lodi’s National New Play contest and Theatre Festival, produced in 2019 at the Summerfest Theater Festival at the Hudson Guild Theatre in NYC, and published in 2021 by Next Stage Press. Her full-length drama, Phantom Pain, was a finalist in Minneapolis’s Playwrights Center’s Playlab program. Her full-length music drama Beethoven’s Promethean Concerto in C Minor WoO was produced at the BACCA Center on Long Island in 2017 and published by Next Stage Press under the title Beethoven, The Man, The Myth, The Music. Her plays, To the Zoom and Back, The Karma Bums, and Welcome to the House of Karma, received staged readings by the Fishlickers Improv group in 2020. To the Zoom and Back was a finalist in the Think Fast Theater Festival 2021 and won the Audience Choice award. To the Zoom and Back was published in 2022 in Borderless Thalia: A Multilingual Comedic Collection, Solis Press, UK. To the Zoom and Back was in the 2nd Act Players Spring 2021 Script Competition and received a production. No Rest for a Soul was in the Equity Library Theater Festival Spring 2021, the Manhattan Repertory Theatre Stories Film Festival Spring 2021, and the Think Fast Theater Festival 2023. The Karma Bums had a reading from Play Reading with Friends in 2020 and a Zoom production in 2021 by Tomorrow’s Classics Theatre Company. Her radio play, My Struggle, had a reading at Clifton Public Library in New Jersey in 2021. A monologue from The Karma Bums is published in Smith & Kraus Best Women’s Monologue 2022, and a monologue from My Struggle is published in Best Men’s Monologue 2022. She has directed several of her plays, including Beethoven’s Promethean Concerto in C Minor WoO, Angel’s Mice and Men, To the Zoom and Back, No Rest for a Soul, Textual Abuse, and The Karma Bums. She had a dancing and acting role in Beethoven’s Promethean Concerto in C Minor WoO. 

She is a respected theatre critic for Patch.com, Smithtown Matters, The Messenger Papers, and Fire Island News. Along with  Debi Toni, she is a founding member of the Long Island theatre group Tomorrow’s Classic Theatre Company.