Susan Charlotte is an American playwright, screenwriter and author.

Theatre

She has written ten full-length plays and forty one-acts. Her plays have enjoyed productions for over twenty years including the 2011 Off-Broadway premiere of "The Shoemaker

The Shoemaker

The Shoemaker is a play written by Susan Charlotte, first staged at the off-Broadway Acorn Theater on 24 July 2011. The play was directed by Antony Marsellis and starred Danny Aiello as The Shoemaker, Alma Cuervo as Hilary, Lucy Devito as Louise and Michael Twaine providing Offstage...

" starring Danny Aiello

Danny Aiello

Daniel Louis "Danny" Aiello, Jr. is an American actor who has appeared in numerous motion pictures, including Once Upon a Time in America, Ruby, The Godfather: Part II, Hudson Hawk, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Moonstruck, Léon, Two Days in the Valley, and Dinner Rush...

 and directed by Antony Marsellis, who also collaborated on the film version entitled "Something Like That" along with Judith Light

Judith Light

Judith Ellen Light is an American actress. Her television roles include Karen Wolek on the soap opera One Life to Live, Angela Bower on the sitcom Who's the Boss?, Claire Meade on ABC's TV series Ugly Betty and Judge Elizabeth "Liz" Donnelly on Law & Order Special Victims Unit.-Early life:Light...

, Bob Dishy

Bob Dishy

Bob Dishy is an American actor of stage, film and television. He is married to former actress Judy Graubart .He appeared on Broadway in:...

, Laila Robins

Laila Robins

-Personal life:Robins was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the daughter of Latvian American parents Brigita and Janis Robins, who was a research chemist. She attended the Yale School of Drama, and received her undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, . Robins has been in a...

, Margaret Colin

Margaret Colin

Margaret Colin is an American actress. She is known for her role as Margo Montgomery Hughes # 1 on As the World Turns and for her role as Eleanor Waldorf-Rose on Gossip Girl.-Early life:...

 and John Shea

John Shea

John Victor Shea III is an American actor and director who has starred on stage, television and in film. He is best known for his role as Lex Luthor in the 1990s TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and also starred in the short lived 1990s TV series WIOU as Hank Zaret...

; "Love Divided By/Times Three" starring Marilyn Sokol

Marilyn Sokol

Marilyn Sokol is an actress, comedienne, teacher, singer, writer/director. She has won an Emmy Award, an Obie Award, and a Bistro Award. She lives in New York City...

 which has an original score by Billy Goldenberg

Billy Goldenberg

William Leon "Billy" Goldenberg is an American composer most known for his work on television and film....

 ("Ballroom"); and "The Hairdresser" starring Kathleen Chalfant

Kathleen Chalfant

-Life and career:Chalfant was born as in San Francisco, California and raised in her parents' boarding house in Oakland. Her father, William Bishop, was an officer in the Coast Guard...

 and Maria Tucci.

She also founded a school for writers, Prism Playhouse and two theatre companies--Food For Thought Productions (winner of the National Arts Club Gold Medal in drama) where she premiered plays by Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...

, Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner

Anthony Robert "Tony" Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film, Munich.-Life and career:Kushner was born...

 and Lynn Redgrave

Lynn Redgrave

Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE was an English actress.A member of the well-known British family of actors, Redgrave trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962...

 and the not-for-profit theatre, Cause Celebre.

Film

Her film credits include: A Broken Sole

A Broken Sole

A Broken Sole is a 2007 trilogy of short films directed by Antony Marsellis and written by Susan Charlotte, dealing with 9/11.Plot=Based on three short plays by Susan Charlotte, the film follows the lives of six characters: a shoemaker and his customer, a cabbie and his passenger, and a dyslexic...

 (2006), which was released theatrically in 2007,directed by Antony Marsellis  starring Danny Aiello

Danny Aiello

Daniel Louis "Danny" Aiello, Jr. is an American actor who has appeared in numerous motion pictures, including Once Upon a Time in America, Ruby, The Godfather: Part II, Hudson Hawk, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Moonstruck, Léon, Two Days in the Valley, and Dinner Rush...

 and; Come On (2000), which premiered at the East Hampton Film Festival; and Love Divided By (based on her play) which has an original score by Philip Glass

Philip Glass

Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...

 and was chosen to open MoMA

Moma

Moma may refer to:* Moma , an owlet moth genus* Moma Airport, a Russian public airport* Moma District, Nampula, Mozambique* Moma River, a right tributary of the Indigirka River* Google Moma, the Google corporate intranet...

's Titus II theatre.

Television

Her TV credits include: CBS' "Comedy Zone" (1984), which starred Patty Duke

Patty Duke

Anna Marie "Patty" Duke is an American actress of stage, film, and television. First becoming famous as a child star, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 16, and later starring in her eponymous sitcom for three years, she progressed to more mature roles upon playing Neely...

 and Paul Reiser

Paul Reiser

Paul Reiser is an American stand-up comedian, actor, television personality, author, screenwriter and musician. He is most widely known for his role on the long-running television sitcom Mad About You.-Early life:...

 and daytime series "Loving

Loving (TV series)

Caden Grant Carlton loves Mika Ayako Ryan more.Loving is an American television soap opera which aired on ABC's daytime lineup from June 26, 1983 to November 10, 1995 for 3,169 episodes...

" (1983) and "Guiding Light

Guiding Light

Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...

".

Awards

She is the recipient of the inaugural Joseph Kesselring

Joseph Kesselring

Joseph Otto Kesselring was an American writer and playwright known best for his play Arsenic and Old Lace, written in 1939 and originally entitled "Bodies in Our Cellar." He was born in New York City to Henry and Frances Kesselring. His father's parents were immigrants from Germany. His mother was...

 Prize. Her theatre company Food For Thought Productions was the recipient of the National Arts Club

National Arts Club

The National Arts Club is a private club in Gramercy Park, New York City, New York, USA. It was founded in 1898 to "stimulate, foster, and promote public interest in the arts and to educate the American people in the fine arts". Since 1906 the organization has occupied the Samuel J...

 Gold Medal of Honor for Achievement in the Dramatic Arts.

Full-Length Plays

• The Shoemaker
• Prism Blues
• Delicate Choices
• It Takes One Litre of Petrol and Twenty Minutes
• Before It Happened
• Love Divided By/Times Three
• Sublet
• The Round Table (Collaboration with Peter Stone
  Peter Stone
  Peter Hess Stone was an American writer for theater, television and movies.-Life and career:Stone was born in Los Angeles. His mother, Hilda , was a film writer, and his father, John Stone was the writer and producer of many silent films, including Shirley Temple and Charlie Chan movies...
  
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One-Act Plays

• Love Divided By'
• Folded Hands
• Tango Finish
• The Shoemaker
• The Cabbie
• The Dyslexic Lover
• The Hairdresser
• Come On
• The Typist
• The Neon Sign Man
• I Can Imagine/I Can't Imagine
• The Squeegee Man
• Life in a Paper Bag
• The Pirates (Co-Written by Pascal Aubier
  Pascal Aubier
  Pascal Aubier is a French actor, director, script writer, producer and editor, born in 1943 in Paris .- As actor :* 1958 : Faibles femmes* 1964 : Lucky Jo* 1965 : Pierrot le fou : Brother #2* 1966 : Chappaqua...
  
  )
• Between a Local and an Express
• What She Didn't Say
• The Cleaning Girl

Theatrical Adaptations

• When The Women Come Out To Dance by Elmore Leonard
  Elmore Leonard
  Elmore John Leonard Jr. , better known as Elmore Leonard, is an American novelist and screenwriter. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.Among his...
  
  
• Sparks by Elmore Leonard
• The Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence
• Youth by Joseph Conrad
  Joseph Conrad
  Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born English novelist.Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English, although he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties...
  
  
• The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre
  Jean-Paul Sartre
  Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, particularly Marxism, and was one of the key figures in literary...
  
  
• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins
• The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
  Shirley Jackson
  Shirley Jackson was an American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years...
  
  

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