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Susan Yankowitz is a playwright, novelist, and librettist. Her best-known plays include PHAEDRA IN DELIRIUM, TERMINAL1969, TERMINAL 1996 (collaborations with Joseph Chaikin’s Open Theatre), A KNIFE IN THE HEART, and NIGHT SKY, which has been performed throughout the U.S. and in translations worldwide. In music-theatre, she is bookwriter/lyricist for TRUE ROMANCES with Elmer Bernstein, SLAIN IN THE SPIRIT with Taj Mahal, and CHÉRI with Michael Dellaira. She was a 2006 resident artist at HERE with her mixed-media play THE LUDICROUS TRIAL OF MR. P. Her work has been honored by the NEA, Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and NYFA foundations, among others. http://www.susanyankowitz.com/
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