Suzanne Bronson

Suzanne Bronson

A Master of Fine Arts graduate from New York University and recipient of the Tisch School of the Arts and the Jean Stein scholarships, Suzanne Bronson's comedy, A Reasonable Expectation of Privacy, was a semi-finalist for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. The play was also on the long-list for England's Theatre503 Playwriting Award.

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A Master of Fine Arts graduate from New York University and recipient of the Tisch School of the Arts and the Jean Stein scholarships, Suzanne Bronson's comedy, A Reasonable Expectation of Privacy, was a semi-finalist for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. The play was also on the long-list for England's Theatre503 Playwriting Award.

Suzanne's recent one-act play, Girth, was produced for YouTube by Jamaica Center Arts and Learning (JCAL) as part of their Meet the Playwright series in April 2021. The play will also be published in an upcoming edition of Apricity, an international multimedia arts magazine of the University of Texas at Austin.

Some of her other short plays are: Heart, first presented in November 2020 during the One Minute Play Festival's Live from the Anarchists Jurisdiction in cooperation with the Dramatists Guild of America and was then produced for YouTube in February 2021 by Barely Seen. Suzanne's short play, The First Impression is an October 2020 podcast available through Open-Door Playhouse. In April 2020, Repair Shop was part of the One Minute Play Festival's Coronavirus Plays Project.

The full-length play, Dionysus Has A Crisis, was well received during its December 2019 unstaged reading in Colorado. In March 2019, the full-length play, Defined, was featured in the Dramatists Guild of America's Friday Night Footlights reading. In June 2019, the one act play Oedipus House enjoyed a reading at The Lark as part of their 25th Anniversary celebrations.

As a guest artist in residence in January 2018, Suzanne's drama Mothafckers: Tales of Modern Greek was developed and performed in Mesa Lab at Colorado Mesa University. The play went on to place in the 2018 second round of the Austin Film Festival's Stage Play competition.

The ten-minute plays, Father, Son, and Coffee was the winner in the June 2017 Clarke Hall's Thematic Thursdays and Fool's Mate was a November 2016 winner in Torrent Theatre's The Play Off!.

Suzanne’s nonfiction articles can be found in The Grand Valley magazine, The Daily Sentinel newspaper, and The Maverick magazine.

In addition to her two published books of poetry, her verse has appeared in The Aspen Daily News, Colorado Life magazine, and featured on Colorado Public Radio.

Suzanne also holds a Bachelors in English Writing from Colorado Mesa University and an Associates in Liberal Arts from the State University of New York.

Plays

  • The Captive Audience by Suzanne Bronson
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    7–11
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    Genre: adaptation, biography + 4 more
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    Keyword: animal anthropomorphism, Animal abuse + 4 more
    Genre: adaptation, biography, docudrama/historic, period, tragedy, young audiences
    Keyword: animal anthropomorphism, Animal abuse, animal character, biographical drama, College-aged roles, excellent women roles
    A drama based on the true story of John Daniel, a trafficked western lowland gorilla who was raised as a human child. Animal ethics are at the heart of the conflict as the young journalist, Brandy, tries to enrich John Daniel's life and teach him American Sign Language, but his captors ply him with alcohol and drugs and are only interested in him as a spectacle. The Captive Audience is my pushback to wild...
    A drama based on the true story of John Daniel, a trafficked western lowland gorilla who was raised as a human child. Animal ethics are at the heart of the conflict as the young journalist, Brandy, tries to enrich John Daniel's life and teach him American Sign Language, but his captors ply him with alcohol and drugs and are only interested in him as a spectacle. The Captive Audience is my pushback to wild animal trafficking and the exotic pet trade, which is a genuine problem around the world.
  • A Reasonable Expectation of Privacy by Suzanne Bronson
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    6–9
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: reality tv, full length + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, tragedy
    Keyword: reality tv, full length, short, absurd, dark, female playwright
    This dark comedy was a semi-finalist winner for the 2018 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and long-listed for Theatre503's Playwriting Award by examining the troubling aspects of reality shows, the seduction of fame and who it profits. While we see the exploitation that Betts, the reality show producer, had inflicted on the extended family intent to win the Shark...
    This dark comedy was a semi-finalist winner for the 2018 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and long-listed for Theatre503's Playwriting Award by examining the troubling aspects of reality shows, the seduction of fame and who it profits. While we see the exploitation that Betts, the reality show producer, had inflicted on the extended family intent to win the Shark Tank-like show, we also see the hilarious and heartbreaking manipulation that the family inflicted on each other which is only surpassed by the courage of Sarah who endures pornography, surrogacy and sex work.
  • Redefined by Suzanne Bronson
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: drama, fantasy
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    Keyword: Roles for older actors, 21st century women + 5 more
    Genre: drama, fantasy
    Keyword: Roles for older actors, 21st century women, divorce, academic research, dating over 40, fantasy character, family inheritance
    When academic researcher, Val, finds her in-process divorce has made it difficult to pay her student loans, her mother's recent demise and subsequent inheritance may be her saving grace. With help from boyfriend, Mat, who carries his own family issues, and fantastical friend Riah, Val will face off against her money hungry sister, Gabby, who's determined to keep it all for herself. This play explores...
    When academic researcher, Val, finds her in-process divorce has made it difficult to pay her student loans, her mother's recent demise and subsequent inheritance may be her saving grace. With help from boyfriend, Mat, who carries his own family issues, and fantastical friend Riah, Val will face off against her money hungry sister, Gabby, who's determined to keep it all for herself. This play explores how money controls relationships and family dynamics.
  • Vial by Suzanne Bronson
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: based on historical events, docudrama + 2 more
    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama, political, tragedy
    Keyword: based on historical events, docudrama, Mexico City, early modern medicine
    Based on actual events, the play is a glimpse into scientific conscience and responsibility in a country soon to become Mexico where Emma Hartwick learns the hard lessons of her own privilege and the realities that face the street orphans like Marcelino while he is under Friar Ricardo's care in Mexico City during a smallpox vaccine expedition in 1804.
  • Dionysus Has A Crisis by Suzanne Bronson
    Cast: 
    6–9
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    Genre: comedy, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: full length, comedy + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, experimental, fable/folktale, fantasy
    Keyword: full length, comedy, contemporary fantasy, classical mythology
    What begins as a fantasy of a power struggle between the death gods of Earth and the god of fertility Dionysus, is actually a fever dream by a woman named Bianca who uses these myths and legends from a parallel universe in order to assess and examine her present existence so she may decide the next course of her life. These two worlds collide to a hilarious and dramatic conclusion.
  • Mothafckers - Tales of Modern Greek by Suzanne Bronson
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: modernized Greek tragedy, features roles for older actors
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, dark comedy, drama, tragedy
    Keyword: modernized Greek tragedy, features roles for older actors
    The interweaving lament of Eurydice's Mother, Timber Standing, an old and wise tree
    who bears witness to the contemporary Greek tragedies of:
    Oedipus House, where a biracial son is trying to find himself despite his overbearing mother,
    Not Discussing Phaedra, what happened to the remaining family of the apparent murder / suicide,
    and She Was Golden Before You Touched Her, how...
    The interweaving lament of Eurydice's Mother, Timber Standing, an old and wise tree
    who bears witness to the contemporary Greek tragedies of:
    Oedipus House, where a biracial son is trying to find himself despite his overbearing mother,
    Not Discussing Phaedra, what happened to the remaining family of the apparent murder / suicide,
    and She Was Golden Before You Touched Her, how a selfish and abusive man, now dying of cancer, had tainted the golden days of a young woman similar to the King Midas story.
  • Girth by Suzanne Bronson
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: 21st century woman, contemporary American culture + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: 21st century woman, contemporary American culture, dating, sexuality, female sexuality
    50-something woman, Jackie, is about to undergo a rather personal medical procedure and her new 40-something boyfriend, Dominic, is not sure how he feels about it - as if it's any of his decision? Dominic is finding out that as some women age, they can often have pain when experiencing intimacy. Instead of conforming to this aging process, Jackie is self-identifying as an older woman in charge of her own...
    50-something woman, Jackie, is about to undergo a rather personal medical procedure and her new 40-something boyfriend, Dominic, is not sure how he feels about it - as if it's any of his decision? Dominic is finding out that as some women age, they can often have pain when experiencing intimacy. Instead of conforming to this aging process, Jackie is self-identifying as an older woman in charge of her own sexuality, much to the betterment of both of them.

  • The (Un)Typical Interview by Suzanne Bronson
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, zoom
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    Keyword: features roles for older actors, LBGTQ + 4 more
    Genre: drama, zoom
    Keyword: features roles for older actors, LBGTQ, LBGTQIA, multi-ethnic characters, ethnic tension, a short Zoom play
    In this diverse, gender-neutral love story, Angel and Skyler are two former co-workers who had an ill-fated love affair that Skyler decided to end. At a job interview twenty years later, Angel finds Skyler is the hiring authority. Will the romantic sparks fly as well as reconciliation?
  • If They Had Succeeded by Suzanne Bronson
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: political, Modern American Drama + 2 more
    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama, political, radio drama, tragedy
    Keyword: political, Modern American Drama, Possible Radio Drama, bloody tragedy
    An interrogator's view of what could have happened at the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021 from one man's confession, Glen, and another's bragging defiance, Evan.

    I woke up the morning of January 7, 2021 and this play was running through my head. I almost didn't want to write it. This play is a nightmare of how much danger was present on January 6th.
  • That First Impression by Suzanne Bronson
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, zoom
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    Keyword: dating and relationships, LBGTQ + 2 more
    Genre: drama, zoom
    Keyword: dating and relationships, LBGTQ, LBGTQIA, a short Zoom play
    How a love story begins between Skyler, a sculpture artist, and Dale, a magazine writer, with an art show, a snowball fight, and coffee.
  • Treasures by Suzanne Bronson
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 1 more
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    Keyword: Murderabilia, critique of gun culture + 4 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, political
    Keyword: Murderabilia, critique of gun culture, anti-gun, gun control, futility of gun violence, psychotic breaking point
    Time and reality seems to be falling apart for Frankie as she discovers the intricacies of gun culture, from those who profit from it like Frankie and her partner Josh who sell murderabilia, and those who are grieving from it like Spencer who lost her daughter in a school shooting. These three individuals collide head-on in a single afternoon of vengeance and realization.