Suzan Zeder

Suzan Zeder (PhD Theatre Alum, 1978 & Grad Made Good,2001)

Dr. Zeder has been recognized nationally and internationally as one of the leading playwrights for young and family audiences in the United States. Her plays have been produced in all 50 states by professional, university and community theatres. Her work has also been seen in Canada, England, France, Switzerland, Greece, Israel, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Dr. Zeder is a four-time winner of the Distinguished Play Award by the American Alliance of Theatre and Education and has served as a panelist and site reporter for the National Endowment for the Arts and Theatre Communications Group. In 1998 she was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. In 2004 she co-authored a book, The Spaces of Creation: The Creative Process of Playwriting, with her husband, movement specialist, Jim Hancock. In addition to her writing, Dr. Zeder heads the playwriting program at the University of Texas at Austin where she holds an Endowed Chair in Theatre for Youth and playwriting and teaches with the James A. Michener Center for Creative Writing.