Susan Mosakowski

Susan Mosakowski is a playwright, director, and Co-Artistic Director of Creation Production Company, an interdisciplinary New York theatre company. Her plays and theatre works have been produced at The Flea, Manhattan Theatre Club, La MaMa, P.S. 122, Dance Theater Workshop, Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Painted Bride Art Center, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Southern Theater (Mpls.), The Baltimore Theatre Project, The Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, and others. She has received commissions from The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Working Theater, and The Long Beach Opera. Recently she was awarded a commission by People's Light and Theatre Company to create a site-specific play for the Longwood Gardens. Her awards include a Rockefeller Foundation Playwriting Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, three Northwest Area Fellowships, a J.M. Kaplan Award, a NYFA, and numerous grants from NYSCA. She has served on panels for NYSCA, the McKnight Foundation, the Bush Foundation, the Princess Grace Foundation, and others. Published works include The Tight Fit and Cities Out of Print in the Padua anthologies: Best of the West and Plays from the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival. She is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and has been a resident artist at Long Beach Opera, Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, Illusion Theater, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Ireland’s Tyrone Guthrie Playwriting Centre, and Weston Playhouse. She holds graduate degrees from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and from Pratt. She is currently on the faculty of The School of Visual Arts, and is a producer of audio books for the New York Public Library and The Library of Congress. Upcoming in 2012: Escape in Full View for La MaMa's 50th anniversary season. www.creationproduction.org.