SUSAN BERNFIELD

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  • ABOUT ME
  • SIZZLE SIZZLE FLY
  • TANIA IN THE GETAWAY VAN
  • MY LAST CAR
  • BIG HUNGRY WORLD
  • STRETCH (a fantasia)
  • TINY FEATS...
  • BARKING GIRL
  • MORE!
the site for my playwriting & solo performance
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Recent & recent-ish action
July 2026. SIZZLE SIZZLE FLY is included in this magnificent list, damn excited about that (might just be time for a play about the 1st woman engineer at Mission Control!), and thrilled that this list and gorgeous array of a graphic exists thanks to Honor Roll. Read about everyone here, and read ALL our plays. 
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​June 2026. Proud to be included in TORCHES., my incredible pal Kristin Marting's sweeping oral history of downtown performance in NYC over the past 30 years. Boy we had a swell chat, click below & watch! 
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June 2026. AVAILABLE HOOKS hits The Orchard Project, for a week(ish) of development work and fun fun, with supreme collaborators Greta Gertler Gold & Portia Krieger, missing third supreme, Rob Jost. So much progress on our long-simmering musical for solo performer and rock band. And soooooo much soft serve. Thanks, OP! (AH was also a finalist for the Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep... feeling quite encouraged). What's it all about? It won't quite answer that question but here's me singing a song from our show in a big gig of Greta's at Joe's Pub in March 2025. 

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What's up, Tangent Artist?  
My serial cabaret hasn't happened in a while (so... serial no more?), hope to remedy that soon. But can't get myself to hide this fun pic: Victoria Myers determined the need for a rooftop, my Kate Hepburn pants, and the terrific photographer Tess Mayer. Clearly I should hit the roof more often. 

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​Find earlier activities in my rolling archive 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.  



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