Susan is an award-winning actor-writer based in Manhattan.
Her plays include BUZZ (Dir. Carrie Preston; World Premiere, Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Nominated, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; Winner, Hidden River Playwriting Award; Winner, Reverie Next Generation Playwriting Award; Developmental readings with Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company and New York Theatre Workshop; Finalist, Baltic Writing Residency (Brora, Scotland); Honorable Mention, Jane Chambers Award); THE MACHINE (Global Age Finalist); THE SILVER KITCHEN (Dir. Carrie Preston, development, artist-in-residence, Actors Theatre of Louisville and FRANK, developmental reading, Theatre of Note, Dir. Kevin Earley); THE WONDER (Writer/Actor, Dirs. Julie Ann Emery and Kevin Earley, BEST PRODUCTION, BEST OF THE FESTIVAL International United Solo Festival; Nominated for both the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award and the William Saroyan Human Rights/Social Justice Award, terraNova’s New Play Series workshop reading at Cherry Lane Theatre), THE FALL (chosen, Pioneer Theatre’s Play-by-Play Series; The Blank Theatre’s Living Room Series Staged Reading; Finalist, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference), LAURETTE, GERTRUDE, THE FIELD, CHOSEN, and DISCO/REAGAN, among many. Her TV pilots include FOGGIA, BETWEEN HELL AND THE BIG EMPTY (co-written with Teresa Harrison), MEAN SECRETARY and HALF LIGHT (both advanced to the Second Round, The Orchard Project Episodic Lab). Her screenplays include THE UNDERSTUDY and THE FALL (based on her play by the same name) which is currently in pre-production as an independent film, directed by Julie Ann Emery and starring Carrie Preston. She has been seen onstage at the Public Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, among many. Web/Film: Onion News Network; award-nominated series regular on the award-winning web series THEN WE GOT HELP (written and directed by Julie Ann Emery), AEA, SAG/AFTRA, DG, terraNova Groundbreakers, 2021-2023 Actors Studio Playwrights Division; Rattlestick Theater’s Actors Who Write Lab.
Susan is a classically trained actor specializing in new play development and has originated over twenty-five new roles.
Photo Credits:
Welcome Page: JD Urban, Photographer (from the right: Elizabeth Davis as Buzz, Zack Calhoon as Leonard and Sam McMurray as Sidney in BUZZ.)