In this Masterclass director, screenwriter, and novelist Susanna Fogel will be working with selected actors in a live and observed work session. This will be preceded by a brief conversation on her career and will be followed by an audience Q&A.
These reservations are for Q&A participation and observation only.
ABOUT SUSANNA
Susanna Fogel is a director, screenwriter, and novelist from Providence, Rhode Island. Her film credits include Booksmart, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA and a WGA award, Winner, starring Emilia Jones and Zach Galifianakis, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Cat Person for StudioCanal, which was based on the viral New Yorker short story by Kristen Roupenian and premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and Lionsgate's The Spy Who Dumped Me.
On the television side, Susanna is the co-creator, writer, director, and executive producer of the critically acclaimed, Ponies, a 70s-set spy thriller for Peacock starring Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson, which premiered on January 15 and earned a 96% “certified fresh” Rotten Tomatoes Critics score. The series follows two PONIES ("persons of no interest") working anonymously as secretaries in the American Embassy until their husbands are killed under mysterious circumstances in the USSR, and the pair become CIA operatives. Together, they work to uncover a vast Cold War conspiracy and solve the mystery that made them widows in the first place.
Previous television directing credits include the pilot episode of HBO Max’s The Flight Attendant, for which she won a DGA award and was nominated for an Emmy, the pilot of Amazon’s The Wilds, and the pilot of the WWII-set limited series A Small Light for Disney+, which won the 2023 Gotham award for best drama series. She currently serves as Executive Producer of the upcoming Netflix remake of Little House on the Prairie Susanna is also an avid fiction writer who has contributed to the New Yorker’s Shouts and Murmurs column. Her debut novel, Nuclear Family, was published by MacMillan in 2017.
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