SUSAN SOON HE STANTON
Susan Soon He Stanton is a Korean and Chinese playwright, television writer, and screenwriter. Originally from ‘Aiea, Hawai‘i, she now lives in New York and London. Her plays have been produced internationally and regionally across the United States: WE, THE INVISIBLES (Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival); TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY (Page 73, Yale Repertory Theatre); BOTH YOUR HOUSES (ACT New Strands/ Crowded Fire); TAKARAZUKA!!! (Clubbed Thumb, East West Players, Oregon Shakespeare Festival Workshop); SOLSTICE PARTY! (Live Source); THE THINGS ARE AGAINST US (Washington Ensemble Theatre); MOANA, JR (book) for Disney Theatrical Group, among others. Her reimagined TURANDOT, music by Puccini and Christopher Tin, was produced by Washington National Opera in 2024. In spring 2025, Susan’s play CYGNUS (WP Theater Pipeline, Kilroys List) premiered at the Gift Theatre in Chicago.

Susan worked on all four seasons of HBO’s SUCCESSION as a writer/producer, for which she has received multiple Emmy, Golden Globe, Writers Guild of America, and Peabody Awards. Television work includes Amazon’s DEAD RINGERS, for which she also received a Peabody Award, and MODERN LOVE; Hulu’s CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS; and HBO’s THE BABY. She is a co-writer of the award-winning feature film, BROOKLYN LOVE STORIES. Her film DRESS won the Audience Award at the Hawai‘i International Film Festival.

She is a two-time Sundance Theater Lab Resident Playwright. Theatre awards and honors include a Venturous Award at The Lark Play Development Center, Susan Glaspell Prize, Kilroy’s List, and the Leah Ryan FEWW Award. Writers Groups past and present include Page 73’s Interstate 73, New Dramatists, and MaYi’s Playwright’s Lab, Primary Stage’s Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, the Public’s Emerging Writer’s Group, Civilians R&D, and SoHo Rep’s Writer Director Lab, among others. She has worked as a writing consultant for Disney Theatrical Entertainment and Disney Creative Entertainment. Commissions include Yale Repertory, South Coast Repertory, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and ACT. 

She has taught playwriting at UT Austin’s MFA Program, SUNY Purchase, New York University, Yale University, as well as various other institutions regionally and internationally. BFA: NYU Tisch’s Dramatic Writing, MFA: Yale’s David Geffen School of Drama.