Award-winning playwright and actor, Susan’s plays include Buzz (Dir – Carrie Preston; World Premiere, Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; Winner, Hidden River Playwriting Award and Reverie Next Generation Playwriting Award; developmental readings at the Atlantic Theater Company and New York Theatre Workshop; Finalist, Baltic Writing Residency; Honorable Mention, Jane Chambers Award); The Machine (Global Age Finalist); The Wonder (Writer/Actor, Directors – Julie Ann Emery and Kevin Earley; Winner, Best Production/Best of the Festival for the International United Solo Festival; Nominated for both the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award and the William Saroyan Human Rights/Social Justice Award); The Fall (Pioneer Theatre’s Play-by-Play Series; The Blank Theatre’s Living Room Series; Finalist, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference); The Is That Should and DISCO/REAGAN, among many. Her TV pilots include “Mean Secretary” (cowritten with Zack Calhoon) and “Half Light.” terraNova Groundbreakers alumna; Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive alumna and Rattestick Theater’s Actors Who Write alumna. AEA, SAG/AFTRA, DG susanferrara.com