Susanna Speier’s scripts have been performed at The World Financial Center, HERE Arts Center, The Cocteau Theater, Cornelia Street Café, Bowery Poetry Club and Collective Unconscious, in New York City and at AIA in Burbank, CA. Internationally, her work has been performed at The Green Room in Manchester, England; Dartington College of Arts in Devon, England and Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Her work has been covered by The New York Times, which stated, “Ms. Speier’s ear here is excellent,” the Villager, Newsday, offoffoff.com, The Drama Review, Le Petit Zine, Digital Culture Magazine and as a primetime story on the Dutch Public Television Station, VPRO. She has lectured at The Rietveld Academie in The Netherlands, Parsons in New York City and done residencies with Artward Bound at Wild Meadows, Dorset Writer’s Colony in Vermont and The Writer’s Room in NYC.  She has received grants from The Dramatists Guild, the PEN American Center Writers Fund and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Arts Recovery Fund.

She earned her BA at Hampshire College during which time she studied at the theatreschool conservatory in Amsterdam, The Netherlands for a semester and studied playwriting under the mentorship of Constance Congdon at Amherst College. She earned her MFA degree in Playwriting from Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y. where she studied with Mac Wellman and studied screenwriting as a guest student at Boston University’s MFA Screenwriting program and television writing with Ellen Sandler.

After completing her degree, she relocated to Los Angeles and worked as a Writing Department Intern on CSI and CSI: NY.  She is being mentored by Rod Lurie through the WIF Mentor Program and just completed scripting a feature screenplay in collaboration with Barney Cohen of Pterodactyl Productions.

Her theater and film industry writing has been featured in Variety and in TDR.  She has written about sustainability and animal rights issues for numerous online and print publications and is a regular Huffington Post blogger.

Susanna’s love of language extends beyond scripted page.  She has performed in two short solo shows and one full-length solo in New York as well as several ensemble pieces.  Since moving to LA, she has been featured in CSI: NY and Mad Men has a small role in the soon to be released film, Amexica.

In her leisure time she enjoys rock climbing, bellydancing, spinning poi and going to science museums.  Memberships include The Dramatists Guild, Los Angeles Women in Film and The Hollywood Hill.