Susan-Jane Harrison

Susan-Jane Harrison is a British American playwright and performer who trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, with a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of California at Davis. Unusual collaborations in Harrison’s artistic work have allowed her to develop across disciplines. Her work on Voice and Performance has been published in Academic journals in the UK and in Turkey. Harrison’s work as performer and playwright has been seen in both the UK, USA & NZ. She has worked in the UK, most notably with BBC Radio, A&BC Theatre Co, RADA and the Royal National. In the USA, with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Aurora Theatre Company, Woman’s Will, ACT, California Shakespeare Company and A Traveling Jewish Theater. She is a Brady Fellow at 3Girls Theatre in San Francisco in the...

Susan-Jane Harrison is a British American playwright and performer who trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, with a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of California at Davis. Unusual collaborations in Harrison’s artistic work have allowed her to develop across disciplines. Her work on Voice and Performance has been published in Academic journals in the UK and in Turkey. Harrison’s work as performer and playwright has been seen in both the UK, USA & NZ. She has worked in the UK, most notably with BBC Radio, A&BC Theatre Co, RADA and the Royal National. In the USA, with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Aurora Theatre Company, Woman’s Will, ACT, California Shakespeare Company and A Traveling Jewish Theater. She is a Brady Fellow at 3Girls Theatre in San Francisco in the 2021-2023 Cohort for development of her play, “Today I Live” and a new play, “Touched”.

Scripts

Alaska

by Susan-Jane Harrison

Synopsis

A science fiction radio play. In a world where genders are separated, boy meets girl in a parallel universe. The time is now, the place Alaska. Alaska is the playwright's first play, a winner in First Bite: BBC Radio 4 Young Writer's Festival in 1995, this play was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September of 1995, featuring a young Michael Sheen. See video links to listen to the production. The script is also...

A science fiction radio play. In a world where genders are separated, boy meets girl in a parallel universe. The time is now, the place Alaska. Alaska is the playwright's first play, a winner in First Bite: BBC Radio 4 Young Writer's Festival in 1995, this play was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September of 1995, featuring a young Michael Sheen. See video links to listen to the production. The script is also available but needs to be scanned to be shared.

Touched

by Susan-Jane Harrison

Synopsis

In a futuristic version of our world, touch of any kind is illegal unless specifically consensual. But the rules around this are as ever, contradictory. Originally written for radio in 2013, "Touched" is a surprisingly pre-cognitive examination of social distance, isolation and fear of contact. A scientist and an anthropologist, unknown to each other and living in the same apartment building, act on their...

In a futuristic version of our world, touch of any kind is illegal unless specifically consensual. But the rules around this are as ever, contradictory. Originally written for radio in 2013, "Touched" is a surprisingly pre-cognitive examination of social distance, isolation and fear of contact. A scientist and an anthropologist, unknown to each other and living in the same apartment building, act on their longing for contact in two very different ways, leading them to a dramatic face to face encounter.

Hunting Love

by Susan-Jane Harrison

Synopsis

A suicidal Aphrodite encounters a life-loving Narcissus …eager to escape his stony fate. A nymph regrets her greatest wish. A young girl tries to escape her incomparable mother. In Hunting Love, myth transforms across a generation as four souls strive for intimacy in a landscape defaced by wars, literal and metaphorical. How do we learn to love ourselves? Can we adapt our superpowers to fit within a family? And...

A suicidal Aphrodite encounters a life-loving Narcissus …eager to escape his stony fate. A nymph regrets her greatest wish. A young girl tries to escape her incomparable mother. In Hunting Love, myth transforms across a generation as four souls strive for intimacy in a landscape defaced by wars, literal and metaphorical. How do we learn to love ourselves? Can we adapt our superpowers to fit within a family? And once a Goddess has your heart, will you ever get it back? In which kitchen sink meets the extraordinary. A play with music and song.

Fits & Starts

by Susan-Jane Harrison

Synopsis

A multicultural middle-aged couple are constantly interrupted in their attempts to have sex while they care for a difficult dying parent. The dying woman remembers a humiliating moment from her youth.

A multicultural middle-aged couple are constantly interrupted in their attempts to have sex while they care for a difficult dying parent. The dying woman remembers a humiliating moment from her youth.