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Susan Mosakowski
Playwright; Co-artistic director, Creation Production Company
Susan Mosakowski is a playwright and multi-disciplinary theater artist, and a co-artistic director of Creation Production Company.
Her early works include: White/Black, (Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin), The Commie Stories (P.S. 122), and Ice Station Zebra (The Ohio). For the Padua Hills Playwright's Festival, Locofoco, The Tight Fit, and Cities Out of Print later presented at Manhattan Theatre Club. Exploring the intersection of theatre and the visual arts resulted in a trilogy of works based on Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass. The Bride and Her Extra-rapid Exposure and The Bachelor Machine were commissioned by the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The final work, The Rotary Notary and His Hot Plate, in collaboration with architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, was commissioned by the Philadelphia Museum of Art for their International Duchamp Centennial. Later plays include: Harry and the Cannibals (La MaMa), Nighttown, Third Rail Quill, commissioned by the Working Theater, Man-Made, and most recently, A World Apart (The Flea). Choreographic projects include The Tower with Matthew Maguire and Glenn Branca for the Walker Art Center, and Molière’s comedy-ballet The Imaginary Invalid for the Long Beach Opera (CA).
Her awards include: a Rockefeller Playwriting Fellowship, a National Endowment Playwriting Fellowship, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Recently she’s been commissioned by The People’s Light and Theatre Company to create a site-specific work for The Longwood Gardens. She is a resident playwright at New Dramatists.