Susan Sandler

Susan Sandler’s screenplays and teleplays include the Golden Globe nominated CROSSING DELANCEY (just released in 4K edition by CRITERION COLLECTION) and Friends At Last, starring Kathleen Turner and Sarah Paulson, as well as projects for Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, TNT, and Columbia. Her work for the stage has been produced in New York, at major theatres across the country, and around the world. Her plays include Crossing Delancey, Under the Bed, The Renovation, The Moaner, If I Were A Train and The Find. Sandler’s work is published by Smith and Kraus, Vintage Press, and Samuel French. She is a full time professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts Kanbar Institute of Film & Television, where she also guides the Fusion Film Festival, celebrating women and nonbinary artists. Julia Scotti: Funny That Way won Audience Choice at the Paley Center for New Media Doc Pitch. Her new film THE ARTIST MUST GROW EVER MORE SELFISH, a portrait of composer and gay icon Ned Rorem is currently on the festival circuit.

Format: Scripted Feature, Unscripted Features, Scripted Shorts, Unscripted Shorts

Genre: Documentary, Experimental, Jewish, LGBTQ+, Romance, Thriller, Women, Music, Drama, Art

Location: New York, United States