BIOGRAPHY
Susan Hansell began writing for theatre by constructing text/s for dancers, choreographers, and performers (herself and others) in San Francisco during the 1980’s. Work from this period has been published in Heinemann’s Monologues for Women by Women (among other places), and produced as A Day In, Affair on the Air, Drop It, Don't, 14 Ladies in Hats, Pink Rope, and Trolls (at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the SFSU Poetry Center; Artists Television Access of San Francisco; Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco; Project Artaud, San Francisco; The Harold Clurman, New York City; and at Detroit Mercy, among other venues). New York City productions include a commissioned work, American Rose: Our Gals on the Homefront, 1941-1945 (The Ohio Theatre, March 1997). Recent productions include the CSULB Players production of My Medea (March 2005).
Published plays by Susan Hansell are It Means Dick (Spot Literary Magazine 2.1 Spring 2008); We Are All Dick 3 (Oasis 11.3 Oct-Dec 2003); Little Kings (Oasis 10.1 Jan-Mar 2002); MaryMary (Inflatable Magazine, Winter 1999); My Medea (The Best American Short Plays 1996-1997, and The Best American Short Plays 1996-1998, Applause); Rollover Othello (Oasis 5.1 Jul-Sep 1996); Don't (More Monologues for Women by Women, Heinemann, 1996); Affair on the Air (More Monologues for Women by Women, Heinemann, 1996); and Lady in the Purple Velvet Hat (Rockford Review 11, 1992).
Susan Hansell is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. She has taught in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University, the English Department at Brooklyn College, and most recently, at California State University, Long Beach, in the Departments of English, History, and Theatre. Her degrees are a B.A. with high honors in Sociology from U.C. Berkeley (1981), an M.A. in English: Creative Writing from San Francisco State University (1987), and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing: Playwriting from CUNY-Brooklyn College (1996), in which program she subsequently taught the M.F.A. tutorials.
Susan Hansell’s most recently written plays are a sequel to We Are All Dick 3, It Means Dick, which two one-acts together comprise a two-act play, (I Am) Not T/his Story. She is presently working on her longest-lengthed play thus far. The playwright was born in Stockton, California, has traveled widely, and has lived as an adult in Los Angeles, New York (Brooklyn), Long Beach (CA), and in San Francisco. In October, 2005, she married the noted scientist and U.S. Judo coach, Gerald Uyeno; they live together, currently in Tucson, Arizona.
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CONTACT
Email Susan Hansell directly at: <susan.hansell@gmail.com>.
LINKS
Use ISBN # 1-55783-317-6 for The Best American Plays 1996-97 (Applause Theatre Books) and ISBN # 0-435-07022-3 for More Monologues for Women by Women (Heinemann Press), both of which are available on Amazon.com.
Find more works and links to works by Susan Hansell in the following places:
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www.csulb.edu/~d49er/archives/2005/spring/diversions/volLVno86-simpson.shtml
www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/archives/h.html
http://isbndb.com/d/person/hansell_susan.html
www.advocadopress.org/ragg.html
www.missioncreeep.com/TilT/poetry.html
www.sfsu.edu/~newlit/newcatalog/atoz.htm
www.advocadopress.org/anthology/anthtoc.html
http://home.comcast.net~richmckee/recent.htm
http://www.missioncreep.com/TiLT/broadway.html
http://isbndb.com/d/book/more_monologues_for_women_by_women.html
http://www.tomfolio.com/bookdetailsmem.asp?book=A1404&mem=50
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