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,^[1] WGA,^[2] and Peabody Awards.^[3] She has also written for The Baby, Modern Love, Dead Ringers, and Conversation with Friends.

Biography

Stanton is from Aiea, Hawaii.^[4] She is Korean and Chinese.^[5][6] Stanton attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts for a BFA and Yale School of Drama for an MFA^[7] Stanton was an inaugural recipient of the Venturous Playwrights Fellowship,^[8] an inaugural recipient of the Lark’s Van Lier Fellowship,^[9][10] and a two-time Sundance Institute Theater Lab Resident Playwright.^[11]

Awards

• Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers 2017^[12]
• The Kilroys’ List 2015, 2016, 2017^[13]
• Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series (Succession) 2022, 2023

Works

Plays

• we, the invisibles
• Today Is My Birthday^[14]
• Both Your Houses
• Takarazuka!!!
• Cygnus
• Solstice Party!
• The Things Are Against Us
• The Underneath

Films

• Dress (2013, dir. Henry Ian Cusick)

Television

• Succession (2018-2023)
• Modern Love (2021)
• The Baby (2022)
• Conversations with Friends (2022)
• Dead Ringers (2023)

Opera

• Turandot