BUZZ (play)

Directed by Carrie Preston

90 minutes, no intermission

Charismatic director Mary Ann “Buzz” Goodbody was one of only five women directing in the UK in the 1970s. In 1975, she famously directed Ben Kingsley in the title role of Hamlet.

Four days later, she was gone.

BUZZ, directed by Carrie Preston, Elizabeth A. Davis as Buzz, photo by JD Urban

“Few have heard of Buzz Goodbody, the female director who crashed through the glass ceiling in 1975 by directingwhat some considered the best “Hamlet” of her generation. This is a fact playwright Susan Ferrara’s “Buzz” is likely to change… ”
— Montgomery Advertiser, September 2019

Rights available via agent Susan Gurman

the fall (play and screenplay)

Directed by Julie Ann Emery

Film currently in development starring Carrie Preston

90 minutes

A grieving, sci-fi novelist struggling to complete her book doesn’t have time for the young guy who keeps coming to her door with chocolate cake in hand and a universe in his eyes.

Rights available via agent Susan Gurman

The wonder (solo play)

Directed by Julie Ann Emery and Kevin Earley

60 minutes

The ordinary people we meet. The ordinary things we see. On an extraordinary day in a time marked forever. September 11, 2001. A story about a neighborhood and its people as experienced by the writer and her diabetic cat. A clear-eyed telling of discovery.

A true story recorded for the archives of the 9/11 Museum.

Rights available via agent Susan Gurman

Logo created by Mina Widmer

PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE (play)

90 minutes

The day after she buries her husband, Fran looks around her living room. Stacks of bills and paperwork litter the floor; empty boxes. The phone never stops ringing. Creditors. Old The bank. But the most impactful relationship she has is with the stranger she meets in a hospital corridor.

Image above by Mina Widmer

representation

Susan Gurman, Gurman Agency LLC, susan@gurmanagency.com

Above illustration by Squigs Robertson

Projects in Process

  • THE FIELD (play)

  • THE UNDERSTUDY (tv pilot)

  • DISCO/REAGAN (play)

  • VIRAGO (YA novel, co-writer Julie Ann Emery)

  • BASS LINE (tv pilot)

  • THE IS THAT SHOULD (play)

  • PARIS HILTON’S BEDROOM (play)