How to Make a Feminist Part I: The Early Years

With a background in both studio and independent film production, Susan most recently won the Best Writer of a Documentary in the NYWIFT 5th Annual Shorts Festival, hosted online at iWoman.TV. She is currently in the development/writing stage with 2 narrative films “Naked Faith” and “A Matter of Choice,” and is in the post-production/finishing stage with 2 documentaries “We All Represent Kailua High,” (about America’s obsession with high school reunions) and “O’ Happy Day” (about a day in the life of a comic in New York City). While working as an Assistant Manager for the IFC Waverly Theatre complex she was an Assistant Director on the short “Hysterical” and, before that, the “The Sinking Ship.” She previously co-directed the independent film “Saint Joan of Arc and the Stand-up Comedy Act” and worked as an 2nd AD/Key PA for the Second Unit on “The Peacemaker” and “Conspiracy Theory.” Prior to working on studio features, she was an Assistant Director/Key PA for the independent films “The Electric Urn,” “MIA: Missing in America,” and “Dog Snatch,” as well as several music videos and commercials.

Her theatre credits are extensive, beginning with an internship at Circle Repertory Company in 1981, and including writing, directing, and producing “Cygnet” and “A Cleaving,” and directing “Relationship Jones” and “The Cherry Orchard” Off-Off Broadway. Additional theatre highlights include: Assistant Treasurer for “Blue Man Group Tubes,” at the Astor Place Theatre; Wardrobe Supervisor and Dresser for “The Widow Claire,” by Horton Foote, at Circle in the Square Downtown, starring Matthew Broderick, Hallie Foote, and Sarah Michelle Gellar; “A Lie of the Mind,” by Sam Shepard, at the Promenade Theatre, starring Harvey Keitel, Geraldine Page, Amanda Plummer, Aiden Quinn, Will Patton, Ann Wedgeworth, James Gammon, and Karen Young; as well as three summers with the The New York Shakespeare Festival at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park, two as the Personal Dresser for actor Kevin Kline in “Richard III” and “Henry V,” and Randy Quaid and F. Murray Abraham in Richard Foreman’s “The Golem,” and a third summer dressing principle players Christine Baranski, Deborah Rush, and Diane Venora, in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and non-equity chorus members, including Melissa Leo, in Richard Foreman’s “Don Juan in Hell.”