February 2021
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About Susan
Susan Lerner is a screenwriter and playwright based in New York. Her screenplays received accolades from the Austin Film Festival, Cinestory Foundation and Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, among others, and she is a Stowe Story Labs alum.
Playwriting is her newest writing passion. Her ten-minute play, A Meaningful Life, was selected for the AMT New Works Summer Reading Festival in NYC and awarded Commended Status by the Jewish Plays Project’s Ten Minute Play Festival. Her short play, Morning Coffee, was selected for Playfest 2024 by Soapbox Stageworks Theater in Monterey, California.
Prior to writing scripts, she was a corporate lawyer and author of short stories, two novels, and works of family and corporate history.
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The Last Con Budget: $100K - $1M | Family ⋄ Comedy An aging ex-con artist, desperate to secure the best care for his wife diagnosed with dementia, involves his artistic daughter in one last swindle that spins out of his control. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels meets Catch Me If You Can
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Dangerous Choices, a Limited Series Historical In 1937 Poland, an impoverished young Jewish woman fights both rising antisemitism and a scheming matchmaker in her quest for independence.
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Dylan, P.I. Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy An idealistic, film-noir obsessed young woman uses ingenuity, street smarts, and help from her ten-year-old niece and feisty grandma, to prove to her skeptical mom that she can make it as a P.I. in 1980s suburbia – taking cases from people everyone else ignores. Veronica Mars meets Hart of Dixie..
Awards
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Los Angeles International Screenplay Competition, Semifinalist, The Last Con
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Inroads Fellowship, Quarterfinalist (The Last Con)
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Austin Film Festival, Second Rounder (Dylan P.I)
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Miami Screenplay Awards, Semifinalist (Crossing Over)
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WeScreenplay TV Pilot Competition, Semifinalilst (Dangerous Choices)
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Miami Screenplay Awards, Semifinalist (Dangerous Choices)
(2020)
Education
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Hofstra University School of Law
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