A Resident Playwright Alumnus at Chicago Dramatists, 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 and Echo Theatre's International New Play Contest, Netta at Ninety at Raven Theatre, Whirlybirds with Downstage Left and Stages; Cars and Quinceañeras (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. She has also worked with AdventureStage and Women's Theatre Alliance. Her docudrama Steamship Quanza, featured in Staging Holocaust Resistance and the upcoming documentary Voyage of Hope, is included in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections.
