Suzanne’s plays have been produced across the US. Productions include: Confederates (TheatreWorks – Silicon Valley, L. Arnold Weissberger and Susan Smith Blackburn nominations, Kilroy’s Honorable Mention); The God Game (Pulitzer nomination and over a dozen productions including the co-premiere between Gulfshore Playhouse and Capital Rep); Naked Influence (Capital Repertory Theatre); Shakespeare in Vegas (Houston’s 4th Wall Theatre, Dreamcatcher Rep/PTNJ) and Full Bloom (Barrington Stage - Elizabeth Osborn New Play nomination from the American Theatre Critics Association; Hudson Stage, etc.).
Honors: NYFA Fellow, Lark Fellow (and featured writer), the Ashland New Plays Festival, the Berrilla Kerr Foundation Grant, the Coe College Playwriting Prize, and the BMI Foundation’s Harrington Award. Suzanne was twice the winner of the NEXT ACT! New Play Summit at Capital Rep, twice an Honorable Mention for the Kilroy’s List, and was the silver prize winner for the Hart New Play Initiative. Residencies include: the TheatreWorks – Silicon Valley New Works Festival and Winter Writers Retreat, The New Harmony Project, PlayPenn, the LAByrinth Theatre Company’s Summer Intensive, the Lark/Rebeck/DTF Writers’ Retreat, and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s Southern Writers’ Project. Publications: Playscripts, Samuel French, HowlRound, Applause Books, the Connotation Press, multiple Smith & Kraus anthologies.
Suzanne was the keynote speaker for the TheatreWorks – Silicon Valley 2018 New Works Festival, which launched their Tony-winning season. She is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre and the EST Playwrights Unit; the Dramatists Guild; an alum of Project Y’s Writers Group, and is a regular moderator at the Actors Studio Playwright/Director Workshop. Suzanne’s short film Consider the Sparrow was shot in July, 2021. A personal highlight for Ms. Bradbeer was her work as a dramaturg for Arthur Miller and Jim Houghton on Signature Theatre Company’s production of The American Clock. https://newplayexchange.org/users/3077/suzanne-bradbeer
Suzanne Bradbeer