Biography of Susan Mosakowski

Susan Mosakowski is Co-Artistic Director and founder of Creation Production Company. Her plays include: Eclipse, White/Black for the Baltimore Theatre Project and the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, The Commie Stories, Ice Station Zebra, The Bride and Her Extra-rapid Exposure commissioned by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Rotary Notary and His Hot Plate, in collaboration with architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio; commissioned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Painted Bride, Cities Out of Print for Manhattan Theatre Club, The Tight Fit and Locofoco for the Padua Hills Playwright's Festival (Los Angeles), Harry and the Cannibals (La Mama), Nighttown (The Flea), The Making of Eugenie Doe with composer Julia Wolfe for Ice Factory 2004 (Ohio Theatre), Third Rail Quill commissioned in 2005 by The Working Theatre, and adaptations of The Inferno (TNC), and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (La Mama Annex) with composers Robin Holcomb and Wayne Horowitz. Her awards Include: a Rockefeller Foundation Playwriting Fellowship, a National Endowment Playwriting Fellowship, three Northwest Area Fellowships, and numerous foundation grants. Publications include: The Tight Fit and Cities Out of Print, Padua Playwrights Press (Los Angeles), Ice Station Zebra, VRI Publishing (Los Angeles), and The Commie Stories in Alles Und Noch Viel Mehr, Das Poetische ABC, Bern, Switzerland. . She has been a resident artist at the Long Beach Opera, the Padua Hills Playwrights' Festival, Illusion Theatre (Mpls.), the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and Ireland's Tyrone Guthrie Playwriting Center. Agent: Clinton Fisher: Hanly Conroy Bierstein & Sherdan LLP