The Creative Team
Susan Murphy
Creator/Writer/Producer
Susan is a writer and performer who blurs the boundaries of music and theatre to create “performance memoir.” These acclaimed stage works have included Becoming Fantastic, Every Desire Is a Veiled Prayer, Unexpected Places, Ladylike, and Movie Night. Her most expansive piece, Girl/Group: A Daughter’s Tale, evolved over the course of a decade and premiered as a full-length play at the world-renowned La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York. As an actor and singer, she has worked in film and on stages including the Westbeth Theatre Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, HERE, Cherry Lane Theatre, Classic Stage Company, and Joe’s Pub. She hails from Jersey City, NJ, and holds a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a concentration in experimental performance.
Jodie Markell
Director/Writer
Jodie is a director/writer/filmmaker and an Obie award-winning actress of the New York stage. She directed the feature film Tennessee Williams’ The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Evans, Ellen Burstyn, Will Patton, and Ann-Margret, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. The LA Times said, “A film to savor. Rich in ways that are all too rare these days.” Jodie also adapted and directed the short film Eudora Welty’s Why I Live at the P.O., which played the Seattle Film Festival/Women in Cinema, the Hamptons Film Festival, and the New Orleans Film Festival, where it received the Moviemaker Magazine Breakthrough Award. The film was invited to screen at the National Museum of Women In Arts in Washington D.C. As an actress, she has been featured in films by directors including Woody Allen, Jim Jarmusch, Ira Sachs, and Todd Haynes, and she played a recurring role on HBO’s Big Love. Jodie also teaches Directing Actors in the Columbia University MFA Film Program.