ORIGINAL STAGE PRODUCTIONS                                                                                                         
My Medea.  University Players, California State University, Players Theatre, March 4 – 19, 2005.

Rollover Othello.  California State University Long Beach, Showcase Productions, October 15, 2004.

Don't.  Detroit Mercy University Playhouse, Detroit Mercy University Productions, Detroit, MI.  November, 1999.

Affair on the Air.  The Harold Clurman Theatre, 412 W. 42nd Street, New York, NY.  A Love Creek Production, July 11-13, 1998.

American Rose:  Our Gals on the Homefront, 1941-1945.  The Ohio Theatre, 66 Wooster Street, New York, NY.  A Sightlines Theatre Company Production, March 6-15, 1997.
                         
Rollover Othello.  42nd Street Studios, 410-412 W. 42nd Street, New York, NY.  A Love Creek Production, April 26-28, 1996.

Lady in the Purple Velvet Hat and Trolls.  Oklahoma State University Theatre.  Student Directors Choice Productions, May 9-10, 1993.

A Day In.  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.  A San Francisco State University Poetry Center Production, Nov. 17, 1988.  (A videotape of this performance is available on-line through the SFSU Poetry Center or by telephone at 415/338-2227.)

14 Ladies in Hats.  Centerspace Studio Theatre, Project Artaud, San Francisco, CA.  April 7-28, 1988.

Drop It.  Artists Television Access Productions, San Francisco, CA.  July 21, 1987.

Collage.  Centerspace Productions, Project Artaud, San Francisco, CA.  June 19-27, 1987.

Pink Rope.  Centerspace Studio Theatre, Project Artaud, San Francisco, CA.  April 10-21, 1986.

Three Monologues.  Centerspace Productions, Centerspace Studio Theatre, Project Artaud, San Francisco, CA.  August 15-24, 1985.

COMMISSIONED WORKS

American Rose:  Our Gals on the Homefront, 1941-1945.  Commissioned by Sightlines Theatre Company in September, 1996 and produced at the Ohio Theatre in NYC, March 6-15, 1997.

REVIEWS OF

“Cal Rep’s My Medea.” Mike Guardabascio.  The Long Beach Union Weekly.  Vol. 56, Issue 8.  14 March 2005.  11.

“CSULB’s Performance of My Medea.”  Mike Guardabascio.  The Long Beach Union Weekly.  Vol. 56, Issue 8.  14 March 2005.  7.

“Greek Theater, Modern Touch at CSULB.”  Harry Saltzgaver.  The Long Beach Grunion Gazette.  10 March 2005:  26A.

“Not Like Greek Tragedy, but a Good Show.”  Alessandra Djurklon.  The Long Beach Press Telegram.  10 March 2005.  U Entertainment.

“O.J. Simpson in News Again with CSULB’s My Medea.”  Katie DeBoer.  The Daily 49er.  Vol. LV, No. 86.  9 March 2005.

"'Hats Off' to a Promising New Playwright."  Robert Hurwitt.  The San Francisco Examiner.  16 April 1988:  B-2. 

"Brash Ideas about the Trouble with Men."  Robert Wilden.  The San Francisco Progress.  22 April 1988:  B-7.

CRITICAL STUDIES OF

"Highfalutin Greeks."  Neal Storrs.  Oasis  5.2  Oct.-Dec.  (1996):  Editor's Foreword.

"Disability in Western Culture."  Jenny Morris.  Pride Against Prejudice.  London:  The Woman's Press, 1991.  84-116.

AWARDS

Honorable Mention in the 1998 Jane Chambers National Playwriting Award for American Rose:  Our Gals on the Homefront, 1941-1945.

Pushcart Prize nominee for Rollover Othello as published in Oasis 1996.

Picard and Lurmann Fellow, SFSU, 1986-7.

The Lawrence and Lee Playwriting Award, SFSU, 1986.

Dorothey E. Wells Scholar, SFSU, 1985-6.

SFSU Graduate  Equity Fellow, 1985-6.

The Academy of American Poets Prize, SFSU, 1985.

PUBLICATIONS

PLAYS

"Mary Mary" Spot Literary Magazine 1.2 Fall (2007): 43-57.

"We Are All Dick 3."  Spot Literary Magazine 1.1 Spring (2007):  68-109.

“We Are All Dick 3.”  Oasis 11.3 Oct.-Dec. (2003):  26-62.

“Little Kings.”  Oasis  10.1  Jan.-Mar. (2002):  29-56.

"Mary Mary."  Inflatable Magazine 5, 1999.  Also at <www.geocities.com/Athens/ Oracle/2515>  (click on Issue 5).

"My Medea."  The Best American Short Plays, 1996-97.  Ed. Young.  New York:  Applause Books, 1998.  95-133.

"My Medea."  The Best American Short Plays, 1995-97.  Eds. Stein and Young.  New York:  Applause, 1997.  354-389.

"My Medea."  Oasis  5.2  Oct.-Nov.  (1996):  30-66.

"Rollover Othello."  Oasis  5.1  Jul.-Sep.  (1996):  27-36.

"Don't."  More Monologues for Women by Women.  Ed. Haring-Smith.  Portsmouth NH:  Heinemann, 1996.  61-3.

"Affair on the Air."   More Monologues for Women by Women.  Ed. Haring-Smith.  Portsmouth NH:  Heinemann, 1996.  58-60.

"Lady in the Purple Velvet Hat."  Rockford Review 9 (1992):  19-22.

POEMS

"As Usual."  Rip Rap 28 (2006):  113-4.

"Now and Then Again:  Homage to James Schuyler."  The Ragged Edge.  Ed. Shaw.  Louisville:  Avocado, 1994.  109-111.

“Now and Then Again:  Homage to James Schuyler.”   Disability Rag Mar.-Apr. (1994):  36-7.
                                                      
"Winter Pears."  Disability Rag Nov.-Dec. (1992):  33.

“From The L.A. Horoscope Poems.”  The Portable Californian 1 (1992):  28.

"Odysseyan:  Excerpts from the Epic/Epoch."  Phoebe  3.1  (1991):  44-5.

"Every House Plant."  Metis 7 (1991):  6.

“The Wolf.”  Pride Against Prejudice.  Morris.  London:  The Woman's Press, 1991.  86-8.

"The Wolf."  Kaleidoscope 20 (1990):  85-6.
 
"Two Halves of the Same Game." Expresso Tilt 7 (1988):  11.

“Three Views.”  With Tim Badger.  Just Press Forum 7 (1988):  16-7.

“From Epilogue:  you/he.”  Magazine 5 (Fall 1988):  49-56.

"From Epilogue:  you/he."  Five Fingers Review 6 (1988):  40-2.

“Excerpt from Decisions Terminate Panic.”  Athena Incognita 8 (1987):  49.

"Poem for a Goodbye Never Spoken" Sinister Wisdom 32 (1987):  16-7.

"The Wolf."  Sinister Wisdom 32 (1987):  76-8.

“Poem for a Goodbye Never Spoken.”  Mr. Cogito 7.1 (Winter 1986):  3-4.

"Broadway!"  Expresso Tilt 3 (1985):  16.

“The Wolf.”  The Power of Each Breath.  Eds. Browne et. al.  Pittsburg:  Cleis, 1985.  5-7.

“Bareback.”  Kaleidoscope 10 (1985):  57-8. 

“For Mary Cate.”  Common Lives, Lesbian Lives 9 (Fall 1983):  46-7.

ESSAYS    

"Re/fractions from Los Angeles."  Phoebe 4.1 (1992):  19-22.

"Behind Bars:  Juvenile Institutions and Lesbian Youth."  Catalyst 4.4 (1984):  13-22.

"Some Think We Aren't Feminist Enough."  Guardian 23 Nov. 1983:  10-11.

“Salvadorans Speak for Justice.”  Plexus Dec. 1983:  5.

"A Personal View of Nicaragua."  Plexus Mar 1983:  10-12. 
                                                                                 
TRANSLATIONS

"Breaking Down Barriers in Ideas and Practice."  Trans. Susan Hansell.  A Dream Compels Us.  Ed. Carter.  Boston:  South End, 1989.  93-6.

Forced to Move.  Renato Camarda.  Trans. Susan Hansell.  Berkeley:  New Americas, 1985.

"Mortally Wounded" and "The American Way of Death."  Claribel Alegria.  Trans. Susan Hansell.  El Tecolote June (1985):  7-8.

"Three Poems by Claribel Alegria."  Trans. Susan Hansell.  Suisun Valley Review  5.1  (1985):  61-3.

EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts in English, Creative Writing, Playwriting:  Brooklyn College of The City University of New York, 1996.  Comprehensive examinations under Jack Gelber in over one-hundred critical and creative works.  Cumulative works of five original plays, including "Rollover Othello" (a 1996 Pushcart Prize nominee) and "My Medea" (published in The Best American Short Plays 1996-97 and 1995-97).  Additional Theatre Department course work with Mona Heinze-Barreca (now at Cal Arts) in Dramaturgy, Translation of Plays, and Dramatic Structure.  Theatre Criticism with Doug Langworthy  (then managing editor of American Theatre Magazine) at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan.

Master of Arts in English, Creative Writing:  San Francisco State University, 1987.  Comprehensive examinations and specializations in Samuel Beckett, Emily Dickinson, and Zora Neale Hurston.  Recipient of SFSU Awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Lawrence and Lee Playwriting Contest.  Two-woman show "Pink Rope" staged professionally at Project Artaud in San Francisco with dancer Deborah Phillips of Christopher Beck's Dance Theatre.  Thesis, under Kathleen Fraser, in Contemporary Poetry, with additional course work in Feminist Poetics, in Ethnic Studies with Chinosole, and, under Robert Gordon, in 20th C American Theatre.
 
Bachelor of Arts with High Honors in Sociology:  The University of California at Berkeley, 1981.  Honors Thesis in social theory (race/class/gender studies) under Michael Buroway.  Graduate-level course work in Structural Anthropology (with Ann Merrill) and Political Sociology (with William Kornhauser).  Additional undergraduate upper-level course work in Afro-American Literature, Chicano Literature, Comparative Literature, Media-Communications (with Todd Gitlin), and in Women's Studies.  Teaching Assistant in Sociology of Women for Margaret Rivka Polatnick in 1980, the first time such course was offered at UCB.
 

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

California State University, Long Beach, Departments of English, History and Theatre, 2000-2007.  Lecturer in upper-level Literature (370; 385), Theory (384), and Pedagogy (400) courses, in senior-level History of American Women (485), in graduate-level Theory of Theatre Aesthetics (696), in lower and upper level composition and literature (1; 100; 270; 309) and in interdisciplinary general education courses (372).

Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, 1994-2000.  Lecturer in the graduate M.F.A. Program in Playwriting; taught the M.F.A. program tutorials for the graduate-level student playwrights.  Lecturer in Core 6 (Landmarks in Literature) Courses; Lecturer in Multi-Disciplinary Composition.

California State University, Northridge, Department of English, 1989-92.  Lecturer in English and Creative Writing.  Taught Advanced Narrative Writing, Dramatic Writing, Dramatic Literature and Major American Authors for English majors in the B.A. Literature and the B.F.A. Creative Writing programs.                                 
                                                                                                                
Loyola Marymount University, Department of English, 1990-1.  Lecturer in English.  Taught Composition and Introduction to Fiction.

San Francisco State University, Department of Creative Writing, 1987-8.  Lecturer in Creative Writing.  Taught Fiction Writing, Playwriting, and Poetry Writing to Majors in the B.F.A. program.                                                                                       

RELATED POSITIONS

Los Angeles Woman's Building, 1989-90.  Instructor.  Taught creative writing and monologue writing classes in a community setting.

California Arts Council, 1985-6.  Individual Artist in Residence.  Taught creative writing  and performance classes at the Independent Living Center in San Francisco.  Desk-top published an anthology of participants' works and organized public readings and performances.

New Americas Press, 1981-5.  Translator and Editor of materials from Spanish to English.  Extensive travel in North and Central America.   
                                                          

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