* B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill * Duke Drama (playwriting) * Writer/producer, Showtime's movie news (18 years) * Writer/producer, CNN entertainment (8 years) * Writer/producer, Associated Press TV (4 years) * Author, L.A. Times' bestseller Conversations with Screenwriters * Commentator, Biography Channel specials on Ethan Hawke, Dustin Hoffman, and Viggo Mortensen * Moderator, screenwriters' panels, L.A. Times Festival of Books * Interviewer, Patrick Marber (screenwriter) and Zoe Heller (novelist), "Notes on a Scandal," for Fox Searchlight Pictures and an audience of SAG and WGA members * Interviewer, one-on-one with Robin Williams for SAG * Interviewer, David Chase & his staff of "Sopranos" writers for WGA Foundation and "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" * Teacher, "Writing for Actors," SAG Conservatory, AFI * Former entertainment planning editor and manager, L.A. TV entertainment unit, for the Associated Press
As a print journalist, Susan has written features for the Washington Post, the Raleigh News & Observer, the Southern Pines Pilot, Southern Magazine, Woman's Day, American Girl, American Baby, California Homes, TV Guide, Written By, the L.A. Times, and many more.
"Conversation with...," her monthly column of interviews with writers that ran for four years in Written By, was nominated for a Maggie Award, the magazine industry's equivalent of the Oscars.
Many of those interviews were compiled, and some expanded, in her book Conversations with Screenwriters, published by Heinemann in 2000. That book hit #3 on the L.A. Times bestseller list.
For the past 18 years, her interviews with actors, directors, producers, and musicians have appeared on Showtime, VH-1, Sundance Channel, The Movie Channel, CNN, Associated Press Television, and BET. She has interviewed hundreds of celebrities, including Meryl Streep, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Mel Gibson, Ashley Judd, Annette Bening, Warren Beatty, Nicolas Cage, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Antonio Banderas, Hugh Grant, Tommy Lee Jones, Liam Neeson, Harrison Ford, George Clooney, Halle Berry, Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Ben Stiller, Anjelica Huston, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Charlton Heston, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Amy Grant, Harry Connick, Jr., Britney Spears, Paul McCartney, Patricia Arquette, Loretta Lynn, Reese Witherspoon, Dave Matthews, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Renee Zellweger, Rene Russo, Val Kilmer, Jamie Foxx, Johnny Depp, Jake Gyllenhaal, and many more.
"Conversations with Screenwriters" (Heinemann, 2000)
