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Name: Susan Kouguell
Title: Lecturer
Departmental Affiliation: Drama and Dance Department
Expertise: Screenwriting, the business of screenwriting, and filmmaking.
Major Awards: Major Awards and Grants: MacDowell Colony, Edward Albee Foundation, Jerome Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Art Matters, Inc., Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS), Artists Space, Brooklyn Arts & Cultural Association

Screenwriting Credits: The Suicide Club (Anjelica Films), voice-over narrations: Murder One and Dakota (Miramax Films). Over a dozen screenwriting assignments

Filmmaking Credits: Six internationally award-winning short films: Museum of Modern Art permanent collection and archives, included in Whitney Museum Biennial. Production coordinator/research/voice-over editor: Louis Malle’s And the Pursuit of Happiness. Associate Producer: Rum and Coke and Where the Rivers Flow North

Violist: Concert tours to South America and the Far East; played with NYC orchestras and currently with the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra

E-mail: sk@su-city-pictures.com

Scholarship & Research: The Savvy Screenwriter: How to Sell Your Screenplay (and Yourself) Without Selling Out! (St. Martin’s Press, June 2006). Articles include: MovieMaker, Scr(i)pt, Writer’s Digest, Screenwriter, and Writers Guild of America. Presents screenwriting seminars, including Harvard, WGA, DGA, SUNY Purchase, Emerson College, Boston University, Temple University, NYU, The New School, Independent Feature Project, NY Women in Film, Women in Film/NE, and Screenwriters Expo. Chairperson of Su-City Pictures East, a motion picture consulting company.

Two libretti commissions for composer Alvin Singleton: performances include the Cincinnati May Festival under the direction of Daniel Barenboim and the Atlanta Symphony under the direction of Robert Spano.

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