SUSAN BERNFIELD.
playwright and Artistic Director and Producer of the award winning New Georges.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY.
Susan Bernfield is Artistic Director/Producer of New Georges, one of NYC’s premiere “downtown” theater companies, a pivotal home and launchpad for some of the most acclaimed theater artists working today. Since 1992, she has championed three generations of adventurous women+ theater artists and originated hundreds of ambitious new plays, with impact that reaches every corner of the culture. She is a playwright/solo performer whose work has been presented by EST/First Light Festival, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, People’s Light & Theatre, New Harmony Project, Caltech/Pasadena Playhouse, Huntington Theatre Company, New Georges (naturally) and more. She serves as President of ART/New York, the service organization for NYC’s nonprofit theaters; Past President of National Theatre Conference; on the board of The Assembly; was a founding board member of Indie Theater Fund (now IndieSpace) and co-founder/original cohort member of The Pool, a pop-up theater company. She is the recipient of Obie and Lilly awards.
ARTIST INTERVIEW.
Stay tuned for the interview, to be released on June 8.
I seem to just be full of love, love for specific plays and sometimes specific moments in plays, y’know, when all the theatrical elements come together, pow, love! But more than anything love for the artists I get to work with so closely, over time, and for the colleagues who do this too, so they understand.
"Bernfield whittles Woods into a
GORGEOUSLY LIMBER FANTASY...
production from New Georges.
A CHARACTERISTICALLY HANDSOME
- TIME OUT NEW YORK
GALLERY.
Discover photos and videos from Susan's work.
CREDITS: ALLIGATOR by Hilary Bettis, dir Elena Araoz, in association with The Sol Project, ART/New York Theatres, 2016; Bobby Moreno, Lindsay Rico / photo: Heather Phelps-Lipton; Headshot by Sammy Tunis; STRETCH (a fantasia) by Susan Bernfield, dir Emma Griffin, The Living Theater, 2008; Kristin Griffith, Brian Gerard Murray, Eric Clem / photo: Jim Baldassare; ANNA BELLA EEMA by Lisa D’Amour, dir Katie Pearl, HERE Arts Center, 2003; Monica Salazar, Gretchen Lee Krich, April Matthis; TWO SISTERS FIND A BOX OF LESBIAN EROTICA IN THE WOODS by Emma Horwitz & Bailey Williams, dir Tara Elliott, with Rattlestick Theater, HERE Arts Center, 2025; Emma Horwitz, Bailey Williams / photo: HanJie Chow; FISHES by Diana Son, dir Judy Minor, Walkerspace, 1998; Amy Povich, Connie Winston; DEAD CITY by Sheila Callaghan, dir Daniella Topol, 3LD Art & Technology Center, 2006; April Matthis, Alfredo Narciso, Rebecca Hart / photo: Jim Baldassare; SELF DEFENSE, or death of some salesmen by Carson Kreitzer, dir Randy White, HERE Arts Center, 2002; Lynne McCollough, Mark Zeisler / photo courtesy of the artist; GOD’S EAR by Jenny Schwartz, dir Anne Kauffman, 13th Street Theater, 2007; Matthew Montelongo, Christina Kirk, Gibson Frazier, Monique Vukovic, Judith Greentree / photo: Jim Baldassare.