Bio

Susan Sandler is a playwright, director, and screenwriter. Her screenplays and teleplays include the Golden Globe nominated Crossing Delancey and Friends At Last, as well as projects for Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, TNT, and Columbia. Her work for the stage has been produced in New York, at major theatres across the country, and around the world. Her plays include Crossing Delancey, Under the Bed, The Renovation, The Moaner, If I Were A Train and The Find, and The Burial Society. Sandler’s work is published by Smith and Kraus, Vintage Press, and Samuel French. She is a full time professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts’s Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television, where she also guides the Fusion Film Festival, celebrating women in film, TV, and new media. Most recently, she directed and produced the feature documentary film “Julia Scotti: Funny That Way” @JuliaScottiFilm which won the Audience Choice at the Paley Center for New Media and is currently in release from 1091 Pictures.