SUSAN BERNFIELD

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  • HOME
  • 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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What I'm working on, a running tally...
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Hey hey it's been a while! Certainly Tangent-ially. But my collaborator Greta Gertler Gold's got herself this Joe's Pub gig, and I get to take our show AVAILABLE HOOKS out for a test drive! In other words: perform a song from it for the first time. Sunday March 16 at 8:30pm, tickets here!
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2023: MORE of The Tangent Artist! The serial cabaret returns November 14 and 21! Two shows planned at once, that's BIG. Less serially, both revive version 2, previously performed February 28 and June 14, 2023. That pic? Well, Victoria Myers determined I needed a rooftop, my Kate Hepburn pants, and the fab photographer Tess Mayer. Clearly I should go up to the roof more often. Hell, at least I'm performing more often! Get tickets here. 

Ongoing: making a solo rock musical, AVAILABLE HOOKS, with composer Greta Gertler Gold and director Portia Krieger, still early-ish stages though we've started to figure some things out... More to come.
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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.

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






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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 [email protected].  
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