Susan Bernfield's plays and solo performance works have been presented or developed by New Harmony Project, People's Light & Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Ensemble Studio Theatre/First Light Festival, MACH 33: The Caltech/Pasadena Playhouse Festival of New Science Plays, Lark Play Development Center, Jewish Plays Project, undergroundzero festival, Chrysalis Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Soho Think Tank’s Ice Factory Festival, FringeNYC, Magic Theatre, Vital Theatre Company, HB Playwrights, HERE Arts Center, Peculiar Works Project, Dixon Place and New Georges, among others. She and her plays have been finalists for the Playwrights Center's Core Writer program, National New Play Network's National...
Susan Bernfield's plays and solo performance works have been presented or developed by New Harmony Project, People's Light & Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Ensemble Studio Theatre/First Light Festival, MACH 33: The Caltech/Pasadena Playhouse Festival of New Science Plays, Lark Play Development Center, Jewish Plays Project, undergroundzero festival, Chrysalis Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Soho Think Tank’s Ice Factory Festival, FringeNYC, Magic Theatre, Vital Theatre Company, HB Playwrights, HERE Arts Center, Peculiar Works Project, Dixon Place and New Georges, among others. She and her plays have been finalists for the Playwrights Center's Core Writer program, National New Play Network's National Showcase of New Plays, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, PlayLabs at the Playwrights Center and Mill Mountain Theater's New Play Competition, and published (in whole or in part) by Playscripts, Smith & Kraus and Indie Theatre Now. She is the recipient of an EST/Sloan Project new play commission (and subsequent rewrite commissions) for SIZZLE SIZZLE FLY.
Susan is also the founder and artistic director/producer of New Georges, an award-winning nonprofit theater company that has produced and developed adventurous new plays in New York City since 1992. In this capacity, she serves as president of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (ART/New York), on the boards of The National Theater Conference and The Assembly; has appeared on countless panels and The American Theatre Wing’s Working in the Theatre series; and is the recipient of OBIE and Lilly awards.
She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and trained as an actor at Circle in the Square.