Screenwriter · Playwright · Novelist
Stories that dare to ask harder questions
Susan Lerner is a New York-based writer whose screenplays, stage plays, and novels explore love, identity, and what it costs to live on your own terms.
Blacklist 8
Cinestory Foundation
Stowe Story Labs Alum
Dramatists Guild Member
LA International Screenplay Awards
Feature & TV Pilot Scripts
Screenplays
Comedy Feature
The Last Con
An aging ex-con man involves his daughter in one last swindle to secure care for his wife with dementia — and loses control of everything.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels meets Matchstick Men
Half-Hour Family Comedy Pilot
Dylan P.I.
A film-noir-obsessed young woman uses ingenuity and her niece’s help to prove she can make it as a P.I. in 1980s suburbia.
Veronica Mars meets Hart of Dixie
One-Hour Drama Pilot
Dangerous Choices
1930s Poland: a young Jewish woman joins a rebellious group bound for Palestine — but her family and the matchmaker have other plans.
Unorthodox meets Titanic
One-Hour Drama Pilot
Crossing Over
An idealistic Jewish premed student falls for a Palestinian doctor and is drawn into a world that tests everything she believes.
Imposters meets Homeland
Stage Work
Plays
A Meaningful Life
Ten-minute play
AMT New Works Summer Reading Festival, NYC
Commended — Jewish Plays Project
Morning Coffee
Short play
Playfest 2024
Soapbox Stageworks, Monterey CA
Alarmed
Short comedy
New Stage Play Festival
Evening of Comedy 2026, Vermont
Watch
Videos
Dangerous Choices — Sizzle Reel
2.5-minute sizzle reel for the one-hour drama pilot set in 1930s Poland.
Get in touch
Open to collaborations, productions, and conversations about her work.
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