SUSAN BERNFIELD

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  • ABOUT ME
  • SIZZLE SIZZLE FLY
  • TANIA IN THE GETAWAY VAN
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  • STRETCH (a fantasia)
  • TINY FEATS...
  • BARKING GIRL
  • MORE!
the site for my playwriting & solo performance
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What I'm working on, a running tally...
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2023: The Tangent Artist returns to The Tank, 2/28 at 7pm. Singing. General holding forth. Meghan. Ian. Get tix!
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2022: I happily join host Miriam Weiner on her podcast Theater Practice. We talk about Tom Stoppard's LEOPOLDSTADT, and I get to sound SMART. Check it out! (I'm linking to Spotify, but it's EVERYWHERE.) 

The Tangent Artist, in which I sing. And generally hold forth. Music director Ian Miller, directed by Meghan Finn! At The Tank, April 12 at 7pm... more + tix right here.


2021:  September: The 24 Hours Plays Viral Monologues -- Round 32! I wrote for the brilliant Kelly McAndrew. Who has a car.  And a guitar.  Watch here.

Ongoing:  A solo rock musical?  It's new, keep you posted. Oh, it has a title now/for now?  If only I could remember what it is... With composer Greta Gertler Gold and director Portia Krieger.  Workshop, come April??

2020: 
Window into my spring... proudly included (with so many amazing ones!) in Theater Artists Making Theatre With No Theater, compiled by Sheila Callaghan, Kelly Miller and Meg Miroshnik, published by Tripwire Harlot Press (that's more Sheila) and available here on Amazon (all proceeds support theater artists in need) but for now, read away (down and to the left):
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...and fall.  Conned into penning my own entry in New Georges' tiny play for the time of no plays series... but I think it turned out okay.  Find (the collected) tiny plays, from top of pandemic till now, here.

​Thinking a LOT (obvious reasons?) about my play 
STRETCH (a fantasia), in which Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, observes the 2004 presidential election from her swing state nursing home; thinks about power, loyalty and lying; and has some very strange dreams. Produced by New Georges, then People's Light, maybe it's time for a revival?  
More about it here
Read it on the New Play Exchange here  (Or find it at keyword "impeachment"!)





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​More What I'm working on (the tally goes back in time) here...

My plays.

sizzle
sizzle fly

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a play about taking a swiveling seat, putting on a headset, and bringing the dudes home from the sea.


An EST/Sloan Commission.





TINY FEATS OF COWARDICE

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a solo musical about 
everything I'm afraid of. 
which is everything.

"Each fear pull[s] its weight, emotionally and comically."   
-- 
Time Out New York 



BARKING GIRL

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a play about 
a highly ambivalent new mother.  
er.  woman who's a mother.  

"[This] beautiful script... raises many difficult questions about how to maintain the essence of your personality while putting another life ahead of yours."
-- New York Theatre Review

MY LAST CAR

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a solo performance that remembers a world without power steering.  
in great detail. 

...coming to a living room near you!




STRETCH
(a fantasia)

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a play in which Richard Nixon's longtime secretary, Rose Mary Woods, observes the presidential election of 2004 from her swing-state nursing home.

"An inventive work, lyrical and stark at the same time." 
– The New York Times

MORE!

TANIA IN THE
GETAWAY VAN

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a play about a mom caught up, a girl in retreat, power & time.

"The theme that Tania in the Getaway Van knocks out of the park is how revolutionary social change can seem so ordinary while living it" -- Ludus NY

BIG HUNGRY WORLD

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a play about 2 billionaires, a movie star, the philanthropic impulse 
& how we value work.  



Find me any time at susan@newgeorges.org.  
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