Susan Soon He Stanton

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, WGA, and Peabody Awards. She has also written for The Baby, Modern Love, Dead Ringers, and Conversation with Friends.

Biography
Stanton is from Aiea, Hawaii. She attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts for a BFA and Yale School of Drama for an MFA Stanton was an inaugural recipient of the Venturous Playwrights Fellowship, an inaugural recipient of the Lark’s Van Lier Fellowship, and a two-time Sundance Institute Theater Lab Resident Playwright.

Awards

 * Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers 2017
 * The Kilroys’ List 2015, 2016, 2017
 * Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series (Succession) 2022, 2023

Plays

 * we, the invisibles
 * Today Is My Birthday
 * Both Your Houses
 * Takarazuka!!!
 * Cygnus
 * Solstice Party!
 * The Things Are Against Us
 * The Underneath

Films

 * Dress (2013, dir. Henry Ian Cusick)

Opera

 * Turandot