Susan Soon He Stanton
American playwright
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Susan Soon He Stanton is an American playwright, television writer, and screenwriter. Stanton was a producer and writer for HBO's Succession, for which she won Emmy,[1] WGA,[2] and Peabody Awards.[3] She has also written for The Baby, Modern Love, Dead Ringers, and Conversation with Friends.
Biography
Stanton is from Aiea, Hawaii.[4] She is of Korean and Chinese descent.[5][6] Stanton attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts for a BFA and Yale School of Drama for an MFA[7] Stanton was an inaugural recipient of the Venturous Playwrights Fellowship,[8] an inaugural recipient of the Lark’s Van Lier Fellowship,[9][10] and a two-time Sundance Institute Theater Lab Resident Playwright.[11]
Awards
- Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers 2017[12]
- The Kilroys’ List 2015, 2016, 2017[13]
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series (Succession) 2022, 2023
Works
Plays
- we, the invisibles
- Today Is My Birthday[14]
- Both Your Houses
- Takarazuka!!!
- Cygnus
- Solstice Party!
- The Things Are Against Us
- The Underneath
Films
- Dress (2013, dir. Henry Ian Cusick)
Television
- Succession (2018-2023)
- Modern Love (2021)
- The Baby (2022)
- Conversations with Friends (2022)
- Dead Ringers (2023)
