Selected productions of Cusi’s plays include: A Lifetime Burning (Primary Stages), Dusty and the Big Bad World (Denver Theater Center), Lucy and the Conquest (Williamstown Theater Festival), All the Bad Things (LAByrinth Theater Company at the Public Theater), Fuente (Barrington Stage), The End of it All (South Coast Repertory), Landlocked (Miranda Theater), Fuente Ovejuna: A Disloyal Adaptation (Lewis Center for the Arts), Radiance (LAByrinth Theater Company), and most recently, Camp Kappawanna with music by Lisa Loeb at the Atlantic Theater Company, which was a New York Times Critic's Pick. Her theater work has been supported with grants and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Herrick Theater Foundation, The Bogliasco Foundation, The Camargo Foundation, and The Stillpoint Fund. She has been commissioned by South Coast Repertory, The Atlantic Theater Company, The Actors Theater of Louisville, New Georges, LAByrinth Theater, and the Echo Theater Company. Her work has received significant developmental support from The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, New Georges, The Lark, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, INTAR, The New Group, and The Public Theater.
Cusi has received three Emmy Award nominations for her extensive writing in children’s television. She was also a writer on the Showtime series “The Big C”, starring Laura Linney. She recently wrote, directed, and produced her first film, Wild & Precious, through a fellowship in conjunction with AFI’s Directing Workshop for women, where she was awarded the Adrienne Shelly Foundation and Nancy Malone Awards.
Cusi is a founding playwright of the Obie-winning Fulcrum Theater, a member of LAByrinth Theater Company, and sits on New Georges’ Kitchen Cabinet and on the board of Leah’s FEWW (Fund for Emerging Women Writers) and the Lilly Awards. She is a graduate of Brown University and the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard.
Cusi Cram