Suzanne Bradbeer’s plays have been produced across the United States. Productions include: Confederates (TheatreWorks – Silicon Valley, L. Arnold Weissberger and Susan Smith Blackburn nominations, Kilroy’s Honorable Mention); The God Game (Pulitzer nomination and over a dozen productions including the co-premiere between Capital Rep and Gulfshore Playhouse); Naked Influence (Capital Repertory Theatre); Shakespeare in Vegas (Houston’s 4th Wall Theatre, Dreamcatcher Rep/PTNJ, TheatreWorks – Silicon Valley Play Festival starring Patrick Page and Karen Ziemba) and Full Bloom (Barrington Stage - Elizabeth Osborn New Play nomination from the American Theatre Critics Association; Hudson Stage, etc.). Suzanne was a contributing writer on Speakeasy (Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater) and is the librettist for the musicals Cocus and Doot (commissioned and produced by Vital Theatre Company) and Max and the Truffle Pig (New York Musical Theater Festival).
Honors: NYFA Fellow, Lark Fellow (and featured writer), the Ashland New Plays Festival, the Berrilla Kerr Foundation Grant, the Coe College Playwriting Prize and the BMI Foundation’s Harrington Award. Suzanne was twice the winner of the NEXT ACT! New Play Summit at Capital Rep, twice an Honorable Mention for the Kilroy’s List, and was the silver prize winner for the Hart New Play Initiative. She was also a winner of the Dayton Playhouse FutureFest, was an Honorable Mention for the Jane Chambers Award and a finalist (one of two) for the Stanley Drama Award. Residencies include: the TheatreWorks – Silicon Valley Winter Writers Retreat for an untitled new Christmas musical, The New Harmony Project, PlayPenn, the LAByrinth Theatre Company’s Summer Intensive, the Lark/Rebeck/DTF Writers’ Retreat, and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s Southern Writers’ Project. Publications: Playscripts, Samuel French, HowlRound, Applause Books, the Connotation Press, multiple Smith & Kraus anthologies.
Suzanne was the keynote speaker for the TheatreWorks – Silicon Valley 2018 New Works Festival, which launched their Tony-winning season. She is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre and the EST Playwrights Unit, the Dramatists Guild, Honor Roll!, and an alum of Project Y’s Writers Group and the BMI Workshop. Suzanne was a regular moderator at the Actors Studio Playwright/Director Workshop for over a decade and taught playwriting at Primary Stages, ESPA for four years. Suzanne’s short film Consider the Sparrow has screened in ten (and counting) festivals across the United States, winning multiple awards. A personal highlight for Ms. Bradbeer was her work as a dramaturg for Arthur Miller and Jim Houghton on Signature Theatre Company’s production of The American Clock.
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