With a BA in English and Theatre, Wesleyan University, SUSAN KIM is a playwright, TV writer, and author of fiction, non-fiction and graphic novel. Her two graphic novels w/co-author Laurence Klavan, City of Spies (artwork by Pascal Dizin) and Brain Camp (artwork by Faith Erin Hicks), were published by First Second Books in 2010. “Flow: the Cultural Story of Menstruation” (co-written w/Elissa Stein) was published by St. Martin’s Press Griffin in 2009. With Laurence Klavan, she also wrote the young adult fiction trilogy, Wasteland. The nonfiction book Flow: the Cultural Story of Menstruation, was written with graphic designer Elissa Stein. Plays include the stage adaptation of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club (Dramatists Play Service) and various one-acts that were produced in the Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon, including Death and the Maiden, Rapid Eye Movement, Dreamtime for Alice (Dramatists Play Service and Farrar Strauss), and Memento Mori (Smith and Krauss), Seventh Word Four Syllables, as well as The Arrangement, Where It Came From, Open Spaces, and the book to the musicals Merlin’s Apprentice (with Stephen Cole & Matthew Ward) and Allison Under the Stars (with Zina Goldrich and Marcie Heisler). One-acts include Memento Mori (Smith & Kraus), Pandora (Farrar Straus and Dramatists Play Service), Dreamtime for Alice (Farrar Straus and Dramatists Play Service), Rapid Eye Movement, Seventh Word Four Syllables, and Death and the Maiden. Her work has been produced internationally. Her one act Guts was produced as an independent film, which aired on PBS. Other documentaries include AMC’s “Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust” and the three-part PBS series “The Meaning of Food.” She has been the story editor/head writer on many animated TV series, including episodes for Reading Rainbow, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Octonauts, and Bubble Guppies, Bossy Bear, Love Monster, Bea’s Block, Zenko Go!, Deepa & Anoop, Thomas & Friends, Dew Drop Fairies, Rusty Rivets, Butterbean’s Cafe, Zooey Zoom, Cyberchase, Arthur, Nina’s World, Martha Speaks, Speed Racer, Cloud Bread, Insectibles, and Courage the Cowardly Dog. Ms. Kim has been nominated five times for the Emmy and four times for the Writers Guild award for her work in both non-fiction and children’s TV; she won a Writer’s Guild of America award in 1996 for Best Documentary. She lives in New York City, is a member of the Writers Guild of America East, the Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, and Ensemble Studio Theatre, and teaches dramatic writing in the MFA program at Goddard College. She currently blogs for the Huffington Post.
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PLAYS WITH OTHER PUBLISHERS:
- The Joy Luck Club
- Death and the Maiden
- Rapid Eye Movement
- Dreamtime for Alice
- Memento Mori
- Seventh Word Four Syllables
- Pandora
- The Arrangement
- Where It Came From
- Open Spaces
- Allison Under the Stars (MUSICAL)