Discipline: Theatre – playwriting, Theatre – libretto, Visual Art – painting

Susan Yankowitz

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting, Theatre – libretto, Visual Art – painting
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1971, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1987, 1989, 2003, 2011, 2013

Susan Yankowitz collaborated with Kamala Sankaram on an opera-music/theatre drama about Mukhtar Mai, the first woman in Pakistan to win a conviction against the men who raped her. She also completed a large theatrical piece with puppets and other media.

Studios

Sorosis

Susan Yankowitz worked in the Sorosis studio.

Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…

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