Susan Lambert Hatem

Susan Lambert Hatem is a writer, producer and director originally from Decatur, GA now based in Pasadena, CA. Plays include Confidence (and The Speech), Eugene O'Neill semi-finalist, Off-Broadway premiere; My Dinner With Andrea (Finalist: Henely Rose Competition & the Ashland New Play Festival); and The Flirt Bar musical, (Music by Michelle Malone and Amy Ray), Orchard Project Performance Lab.

As a screenwriter, works include Automatic; Ty the Pie Guy: The Movie; Family of Spies; Kicking up a Storm; Otto’s Boy; Every Day a Little Death.

Susan has written, produced, or directed shows at Joe's Pub at the Public, Theatre Row, the Mission Playhouse, Duke Energy Theater, Boston Court, The Carrie Hamilton at Pasadena Playhouse, the Shakespeare League of Pasadena, Children's Theater of...

Susan Lambert Hatem is a writer, producer and director originally from Decatur, GA now based in Pasadena, CA. Plays include Confidence (and The Speech), Eugene O'Neill semi-finalist, Off-Broadway premiere; My Dinner With Andrea (Finalist: Henely Rose Competition & the Ashland New Play Festival); and The Flirt Bar musical, (Music by Michelle Malone and Amy Ray), Orchard Project Performance Lab.

As a screenwriter, works include Automatic; Ty the Pie Guy: The Movie; Family of Spies; Kicking up a Storm; Otto’s Boy; Every Day a Little Death.

Susan has written, produced, or directed shows at Joe's Pub at the Public, Theatre Row, the Mission Playhouse, Duke Energy Theater, Boston Court, The Carrie Hamilton at Pasadena Playhouse, the Shakespeare League of Pasadena, Children's Theater of Charlotte, the Hollywood Fringe Festival, New York Fringe Festival and the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

She holds a BA and MFA from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.

Scripts

HELL: The Adventures of Jim and Huck Out West

by Susan Lambert Hatem

Synopsis

Ten years after their infamous trip down the Mississippi River, formerly enslaved Jim and a now grown-up Huckleberry Finn find themselves out West, setting out on a dangerous journey to locate Jim’s lost family, encountering dangers, adventures, and clownish strangers, including a young Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain).

*Inspired and frustrated by The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Ten years after their infamous trip down the Mississippi River, formerly enslaved Jim and a now grown-up Huckleberry Finn find themselves out West, setting out on a dangerous journey to locate Jim’s lost family, encountering dangers, adventures, and clownish strangers, including a young Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain).

*Inspired and frustrated by The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Five Players in Search of a Win

by Susan Lambert Hatem

Synopsis

When the power goes out in the middle of their professional virtual reality game, five elite players realize they are not where they thought they were, and some of the game they thought was virtual is actually real.

When the power goes out in the middle of their professional virtual reality game, five elite players realize they are not where they thought they were, and some of the game they thought was virtual is actually real.

My Dinner With Andrea

by Susan Lambert Hatem

Synopsis

Julia Grace is a scientist who needs a job. Andrea is a billionaire with an exciting new, scientific startup. They’re just old friends having dinner and conversation at the finest restaurant in town. When Julia Grace gets an offer to truly change the world, will it be an offer she can refuse? And what wine pairs well with four desserts?

Julia Grace is a scientist who needs a job. Andrea is a billionaire with an exciting new, scientific startup. They’re just old friends having dinner and conversation at the finest restaurant in town. When Julia Grace gets an offer to truly change the world, will it be an offer she can refuse? And what wine pairs well with four desserts?

The Flirt Bar

by Susan Lambert Hatem

Synopsis

The Flirt Bar started as a play with music, but evolved into a full-blown musical using songs by indie rocker Michelle Malone and songs by Grammy-award winning Amy Ray (from the Indigo Girls).

When a heartbroken Bible Belt wife, Honey B. Dews loses everything, she and her book club decide to turn a former Strip Club into The Flirt Bar, where women can go and be flirted with. To pull it off, she has to team up...

The Flirt Bar started as a play with music, but evolved into a full-blown musical using songs by indie rocker Michelle Malone and songs by Grammy-award winning Amy Ray (from the Indigo Girls).

When a heartbroken Bible Belt wife, Honey B. Dews loses everything, she and her book club decide to turn a former Strip Club into The Flirt Bar, where women can go and be flirted with. To pull it off, she has to team up with Raquel Ramone - the hard-singing, god-fearing, gay Greek chorus of a singer who comes with the place.

Can their unexpected friendship help them each recover their belief in love again? And what happens when Honey’s forever best friend, Dorna, declares The Flirt Bar is the work of the devil.

It’s Once meets Kinky Boots, but with less boots and more lesbians.

Confidence (and The Speech)

by Susan Lambert Hatem

Synopsis

Confidence (and The Speech) is a not-exactly-true perspective of a very true story. Yeah, it's that President Carter play where Carter is played by a woman and it seems like it's about a moment in history, but it's really about everything that is happening now.

On July 4, 1979, President Carter canceled an important energy policy speech he was scheduled to give the next day and disappeared to Camp David. Ten...

Confidence (and The Speech) is a not-exactly-true perspective of a very true story. Yeah, it's that President Carter play where Carter is played by a woman and it seems like it's about a moment in history, but it's really about everything that is happening now.

On July 4, 1979, President Carter canceled an important energy policy speech he was scheduled to give the next day and disappeared to Camp David. Ten days later, he emerged from his impromptu domestic summit and gave a new speech, the Crisis of Confidence speech, which became known as the “malaise” speech. The speech garnered overwhelmingly positive responses at first and many now view the speech as unprecedented and insightful. Others think it may have ultimately cost him the White House.

Forty years later, college professor Cynthia Cooper is approached by a stranger, a young man, and asked to recall her time with the Carter Administration during the days before the now-infamous Crisis of Confidence speech. If she is going to tell her story of that time - the story told from her perspective - she is going to play the President. And the young man who wants to know her story? Well, he is going to play her. This unique cross-gender play explores the confidence of a president, a nation in chaos and women in politics.

Hamilton Audition

by Susan Lambert Hatem

Synopsis

A non-black director casting an all-female production of Hamilton doesn’t know enough black women to fill the cast. And a black gospel singer, who is not an actress, has a few questions for her about the Tony Award winning show.

A non-black director casting an all-female production of Hamilton doesn’t know enough black women to fill the cast. And a black gospel singer, who is not an actress, has a few questions for her about the Tony Award winning show.