A Black List Recommended screenwriter living in Brooklyn with her son James and her husband Chris, Suzanne creates richly-layered dramas whose fierce, witty protagonists risk everything to reinvent themselves and the world around them. Her frequent themes reflect Suzanne’s own journey of persistence as a mature female writer: self-determination, passion, gender politics, and the power of empathy. Her provocative female characters always defy expectations as they fully explore the power of their agency. Suzanne’s a Stowe Story Labs/PAGE Awards Fellowship Winner, a CineStory TV Fellowship Drama Finalist, twice a Nicholl Semifinalist, a Filmarket Hub TV Pilot Winner, and an Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Finalist. A 2022 WIF Mentoring Program Writers Circle Mentee, Suzanne was mentored by showrunners JaNeika James and JaSheika James (Bel-Air, Gossip Girl), and Emmy-winning producer Jamila Jordan-Theus. Suzanne received her MFA from NYU Graduate Film, with prizes in producing and directing.
Suzanne was the winner of the Independent Feature Project’s Herbert Beigel Screenplay Award, juried by Mary Harron (American Psycho) and Jay Cocks (Gangs of New York).
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Screenwriting Bio: Most recent recognition
2023 BLACK LIST RECOMMENDED writer
2023 Filmarket Hub Top 10 English Language TV Pilot
2023 CineStory Foundation TV Fellowship Top 4 Drama Pilot Finalist
2023 Diverse Voices Lab TV Pilot Finalist
2022 Writers X Writers TV Pilot Finalist
2022 Winner Filmarket Hub Project of the Month for English Language Series
2022 WIF Mentoring Program Mentee
2021 Sundance Episodic Lab Second Rounder for The Age of Desire
2021 Final Draft Top 60 TV Pilots for The Age of Desire
2021 Coverfly Live Read Winner, with drama pilot The Sensualist
2021 ScreenCraft Fellowship Semifinalist for Blood and Dreams: Complicit
2020 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards/Stowe Story Labs Fellow, with drama pilot The Sensualist
2020 Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist Top 5%
2020 Sundance Episodic Lab Second Rounder
2020 The Black List x Women in Film Feature Lab Short-Lister for drama feature The Sleeping House
2019 PAGE Awards Top 25 Drama Screenplays of 1644 entries
2019 Semifinalist Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition Top 27 scripts of over 1600 entries