Hi there! I’m Susan, a lyricist, librettist, humor columnist, playwright—and now, a best-selling novelist:
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Shows
After Happily Ever After (lyrics)
Once Upon a Time in New Jersey (book and lyrics)
Iron Curtain, aka Onanov Broadway (book)
Barbie Live! In Fairytopia (book and lyrics)
Fancy Nancy (book and lyrics)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (revised book for the classic musical)
Angelina Ballerina (book and lyrics)
Fancy, a Country Jukebox Musical (book)
The Noble Family (book)
The Lost Half Hour (lyrics)
Wild About Harry (book)
Pinocchio: a Family Musical About Adoption (book and lyrics)
The House Next Door (screenplay)
The Soprano State: New Jersey’s Culture of Corruption (lyrics for film)
Fiction
Things I Wish I Told My Mother, with Susan Patterson (released April 2023)
The House Next Door, with James Patterson (NYTimes #1 best-seller 2019)
Black Dress Affair, with James Patterson
Other Writing
Cosmopolitan, Bride’s Magazine, Glamour. (Articles on request.)
Humor columnist (Ham on Rye) for The Rye (NY) Record. (Columns on request.)
Lots of award-winning print ads and TV commercials, way before I ever got involved in theater. (A walk down memory lane on request.)
Awards
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Awards ~
An Emmy award
The Kleban Award
A Richard Rodgers Award
A Jonathan Larson Grant
A New York Innovative Theater Award
Winner, KIDDSTUFF New Play competition
Winner, Global Search for New Musicals Competition, Cardiff
Two Outer Critics Circle nominations
Creative Child Magazine CD of the Year
Fred Ebb Award finalist
“You write and then you erase. You call that a profession?”
Saul Bellow’s father