Susan Jennifer Polese, Playwright
Susan Jennifer Polese is an award-winning playwright whose work illuminates social issues. Her plays have been up at LaMama Experiential Theatre Club, The Midtown International Theatre Festival, HERE Performing Arts Center and Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. She has studied playwriting at Hunter College under Romulus Linney and at Herbert Berghof Studio. She's taught playwriting to children through Purchase College, and has been a member of and taught with Axial Theatre Company. Susan attended the La Mama International Playwright Retreat in Umbria, Italy. She is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild.
SUSAN JENNIFER POLESE PLAYS AVAILABLE FOR PRODUCTION
Each works with a minimal set. Each are dramas which also feature comedy.
SUICIDE BY WIFE — 3 or 4 characters
UNDER THE ONE-TIME SKY — 2 characters
SECRET SUNDAYS — 6 characters
DANCERS, PRANCERS & PIGS — 5 character
A VOICE TO CREATIVITY:
Social Justice & Advocacy
There is a long history of advocacy around and fighting for Social Justice through live theatre. To learn more visit these websites:
Planet Connections Theatre Festivity
365 Women a Year: A Playwriting Project
SUSAN JENNIFER POLESE PLAYS
Michelle Concha Herko and Adam LaFaci in Under the One-Time Sky.
Under the One-Time Sky
By Susan Jennifer Polese
Under swaying trees, two childhood friends careen into a past that has long been preserved in a tiny backyard. One has traveled the world. One has never left this town. Together, they will learn something today: How long can a moment stay with you? It may be just as long as you hide from it.
PLAY HISTORY
Under the One-Time Sky was selected as a finalist for "Best Play" in the 4th Annual Aery Theatre Company 20/20 One-Act Competition.
• Review Fix Interviews Under the One-Time Sky Playwright Susan Jennifer Polese
• Watch Under the One-Time Sky from Midtown International Theatre Festival July 2015
Luciana Faulhaber and Neil Tyrone Pritchard in a staged reading of Suicide by Wife.
Cast of Suicide by Wife as part of Planet Connection Festivity 2016
Suicide by Wife
by Susan Jennifer Polese
A cop enters a house he’s never been in and is met by a woman he doesn’t know. Struggle has happened here, terrible events happened here. He has a job to do. She is trying to survive. A familiarity builds between the two and is shaped forever by her husband's arrival.
PLAY HISTORY:
The play has been nominated for Planet Connections Festivity awards in these categories: Outstanding Production of a Staged Reading, Outstanding Playwriting of a Staged Reading, Outstanding Actress in a Staged Reading. Neil Pritchard won for Outstanding Actor in a Staged Reading.