Susan Soon He Stanton is a playwright, television writer, and screenwriter living between New York and London, originally from 'Aiea, Hawai'i. Awards and honors include Leah Ryan FEWW, Kilroys' List 2015-2017. She is an inaugural recipient of the Venturous Playwrights Fellowship with the Lark, and an inaugural recipient of the Lark's Van Lier Fellowship. She is a two-time Sundance Institute's Theater Lab Resident Playwright. Writing groups and residencies past and present include New Dramatists, Playwrights Center Core Writer Fellowship, the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages, Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group, SoHo Rep Writer-Director Lab, The Women's Project Lab, P73's Interstate 73, Berkeley Rep Ground Floor, MaYi Playwrights Lab, The Civilians R&D Group, Hedgebrook, One Coast Collaboration, and more.
Commissions from theaters include Yale Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theater/Crowded Fire, South Coast Repertory, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Kumu Kahua Theater, Live Source, New Sounds Theatre, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Second Generation, and others.
She has taught playwriting at UT Austin's MFA Program, SUNY Purchase, New York University, Yale University, as well as various other theatres and institutions regionally and internationally.
She received a Feature Film Development Grant and Screenwriting Award from the Sloan Foundation, and a Leviathan Lab Film Production Grant. Films include Bushwick Beats, Dress (winner of 2014 Hawai'i International Film Festival Audience Award), Dispatched, Good House, and Same Will. She wrote a comedic mini-series called We Are the Interns.
Susan is a producer/writer HBO’s Succession, for which she has won a WGA and Peabody Award. Upcoming television work includes HBO/Sister Picture's THE BABY, Amazon’s Modern Love, Amazon/Annapurna's Dead Ringers, Hulu/Element Pictures/BBC's Conversation with Friends adapted from the novel by Sally Rooney, as well as several projects in development.
Susan holds a BFA from NYU Tisch's Dramatic Writing program and an MFA from Yale School of Drama, where she received the Audrey Woods Fellowship and the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Scholarship.