Susan Ferrara

Playwright
she/her/hers

Susan is an award-winning actor-writer based in Manhattan.

Her plays include BUZZ (director, Carrie Preston; winner of the Hidden River and Reverie Next Generation Playwriting Awards, developmental readings at Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company and New York Theatre Workshop and had its world premiere at Alabama Shakespeare Festival), THE WONDER (writer/actor, directors, Julie Ann Emery and Kevin Earley; awarded Best Production/Best of the Festival at the International United Solo Festival and nominated for both the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright and William Saroyan Human Rights/Social Justice awards), THE FALL (director, Julie Ann Emery) and THE SILVER KITCHEN (director, Carrie Preston, artist-in-residence at the Actors Theatre of Louisville), among many. Susan has also written two pilots, THE SECRETARY and HALF LIGHT and her screenplay, adapted from her play, THE FALL (director, Julie Ann Emery), is currently in development.

Susan is a classically trained actor specializing in new play development and has originated over twenty-five new roles.