Susan Jennifer Polese is queer, award-winning playwright and filmmaker as well as a certified crisis counselor. Her plays are seen regionally, Off-Broadway and at venues including La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, HERE Performing Arts Center, and The Midtown International Theatre Festival in Manhattan, NY. Trained in New York at The Wonderhorse Theatre, Herbert Berghof Studio, and Hunter College Susan taught playwriting through Purchase College, Axial Theatre, and Key West Fringe Theatre. Her works are published in the Alexander Street Contemporary World Drama Collection. An alum of La Mama’s International Playwright Retreat in Umbria, Italy, her work explores social justice and is often performed as fundraisers/awareness enhancers for non-profits.

Susan’s poetry has been featured in the international exhibit “Writing of the Walls” at Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, and she is published in The Writing Disorder Literary Journal and other journals. In 2024 She founded the non-profit, creative incubator You Might, Rabbit Productions. She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning short film, Under the One-Time Sky and wrote and co-produced the full length play Two Junes & No July which premiered in 2025. Susan is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild, New York Women in Television & Film and the International Centre for Women Playwrights.. She lives in New York with her co-producer husband and her Labrador retriever who is not in show business.

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