Playwright/Director/Choreographer
Susan Mosakowski is a Co-Artistic Director of Creation Production Company which she founded with Matthew Maguire. As a playwright and director her works include: Eclipse, White/Black for the Baltimore Theatre Project and the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, The Commie Stories, Ice Station Zebra, The Bride and Her Extra-rapid Exposure, commissioned by the Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Rotary Notary and His Hot Plate, in collaboration with architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cities Out of Print for Manhattan Theatre Club, The Tight Fit and Locofoco for the Padua Hills Playwright’s Festival (Los Angeles), Harry and the Cannibals (La Mama), Nighttown (The Flea), The Making of Eugenie Doe with composer Julia Wolfe for Ice Factory 2004 (Ohio Theatre), Third Rail Quill commissioned by the Working Theatre, and adaptations of The Inferno (TNC), and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (La Mama Annex) with composers Robin Holcomb and Wayne Horowitz. Choreographic projects include The Tower with Matthew Maguire and Glenn Branca for the Walker Art Center (Mpls.), Visions of Don Juan at the Pepsico Summerfare, and Molière’s comedy-ballet The Imaginary Invalid for the Long Beach Opera (CA).
Her awards include a Rockefeller Foundation Playwriting Fellowship, a National Endowment Playwriting Fellowship, three consecutive Northwest Area Fellowships, and numerous foundation grants. Publications include: The Tight Fit and Cities Out of Print, Padua Playwrights Press (Los Angeles), Ice Station Zebra, VRI Publishing (Los Angeles), The Rotary Notary and Her Hot Plate in FLESH: Architectural Probes, Princeton University, and The Commie Stories in Alles Und Noch Viel Mehr, Das Poetische ABC, Bern, Switzerland. She has taught playwriting at Columbia, Fordham, and New York University, and has served as a panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts Theatre Program, the McKnight Foundation, the Bush Foundation, and others. She has been a resident artist at the Long Beach Opera, the Padua Hills Playwrights' Festival, the Illusion Theatre (Mpls.), the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and Ireland's Tyrone Guthrie Playwriting Center.
In addition to her theatre work, she is the Director of the Audio Book Studio for the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library (The New York Public Library) where she produces talking books for the blind. She also produces audio books commercially for Penguin/Putnam, FSG, and Time Warner. Her acclaimed productions include: producing and directing Ian McKellen in his reading of Robert Fagles’ translation of Homer’s The Odyssey, and Claire Bloom reading The Portrait of a Lady, as well as working with authors such as William Kennedy, Jamaica Kincaid, Lawrence Block, and Grace Paley. She holds a M.F.A. in Dance from New York University's Tisch School of Arts, a M.A. from New York University in English and American Literature, and a M.S. in Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute. Her next project is Baloney Heaven, slated for fall 2008.