Projects — Susan Ferrara

BUZZ (play)

90 minutes, no intermission

They said “no”, so she converted a tin shack into a theatre, cast a frustrated actor in the title role, and together they created the Hamlet of their generation.

Buzz Goodbody and Ben Kingsley.

Friendship, community, and creative obsession…BUZZ.

Buzz script sample

BUZZ, directed by Carrie Preston, Elizabeth A. Davis as Buzz, photo by JD Urban

“Few have heard of Buzz Goodbody, the female director who crashed through the glass ceiling in 1975 by directingwhat some considered the best “Hamlet” of her generation. This is a fact playwright Susan Ferrara’s “Buzz” is likely to change… ”

— Montgomery Advertiser, September 2019

BUZZ LOOKBOOK

Rights available via agent Susan Gurman

the fall (play and screenplay)

Directed by Julie Ann Emery

Film currently in development starring Carrie Preston

90 minutes

A grieving, sci-fi novelist struggling to complete her book doesn’t have time for the young guy who keeps coming to her door with chocolate cake in hand and a universe in his eyes.

The Fall Script Sample (Play)

Rights available via agent Susan Gurman

The wonder (solo play)

Directed by Julie Ann Emery and Kevin Earley

60 minutes

The ordinary people we meet. The ordinary things we see. On an extraordinary day in a time marked forever. September 11, 2001. A story about a neighborhood and its people as experienced by the writer and her diabetic cat. A clear-eyed telling of discovery.

A true story recorded for the archives of the 9/11 Museum.

THE WONDER SCRIPT SAMPLE

Rights available via agent Susan Gurman

Logo created by Mina Widmer

PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE (play)

90 minutes

The day after she buries her husband, Mae looks around her living room. Stacks of bills and paperwork litter the floor; empty boxes. The phone never stops ringing. Creditors. The bank. But the most impactful relationship she has is with the stranger she meets in a hospital corridor.

pennsylvania avenue script sample

Image above by Mina Widmer

INTERIOR (PLAY)

90 Minutes

A campus emergency locks five students in an old sub-basement at their University. As their phones die and tensions rise, noises in the walls and outside the door make them question what’s real, what came before, and where they think they’re going.

INTERIOR SCRIPT SAMPLE