Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Susan Blackwell

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2010

Susan Blackwell is on a mission to free people’s self-expression. As a performer, writer, and educator, she champions this cause around the world, on Broadway, off-Broadway, in classrooms, and writing, and on TV, film, sound recordings, and the Internet. She created and played a character based on herself in the original Broadway musical [title of show], and the off-Broadway musical NOW. HERE. THIS. (original cast recordings available on Sh-K-Boom records). She created and hosts the freewheeling chat show Side by Side by Susan Blackwell on Broadway.com. In addition to her creative accomplishments, Susan worked in corporate management for 20 years. As the founder of Susan Blackwell & Co, she partners with likeminded, compassionate artists and thought leaders to deliver inspiring entertainment and educational offerings aimed at freeing people’s creative self-expression. As an educator, she has empowered thousands of people to identify and slay the vampires that stop them from being free.

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Studios

Star

Susan Blackwell worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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