A Resident Playwright Alumnus at Chicago Dramatist, Susan Lieberman is the author of IN THE SHADOWS for BBC Radio 4. She received a Jeff Award for ARRANGEMENT FOR TWO VIOLAS, Jeff Award nomination for PRAIRIE LIGHTS (licensed by Dramatic Publishing) and two regional Emmy nominations. Her plays have been produced at Chicago Dramatists, Stage Left, Visions & Voices Theatre Co., Theatre Building Chicago, Clockwise Theatre, 20% Theatre Co., Skokie Theatre, Bloomington Playwrights Project, Pandora Productions, Gallery Players (Brooklyn), Jewish Theatre Grand Rapids, Jerusalem English Speaking Theatre and elsewhere. In addition, Susan has workshopped A SINGLE SEA at Shattered Globe Theatre, HILDA AND MAE at the Theatre School at DePaul, NETTA AT NINETY at Raven Theatre, WHIRLYBIRDS with Downstage Left and Stages; CARS AND QUINCEANERAS (now licensed by YouthPLAYS as MI COCHE, MI QUINCE) with American Theatre Company, Northwestern’s Purple Crayon Players and Clockwise Theatre where it received its world premiere; WHITE GLOVES for Northlight Theatre’s “New Voices” series and HILDA AND MAE for Echo Theatre’s International New Play Contest. She has also worked with AdventureStage and Women’s Theatre Alliance. Her docudrama STEAMSHIP QUANZA is in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections. 

Professionally, Susan has worked with Open Space Theatre and the Round House in London; served as Associate Editor for Theatre Crafts Magazine, Publicity Director for Victory Gardens Theatre and Literary Manager for Raven Theatre. She currently writes about theatre for ThirdCoastReview.com, BuzzCenterStage.com and PictureThisPost.com. She works with Tellin' Tales Theatre on its story project for older adults.