Susan Soon He Stanton

Susan Soon He Stanton is an American playwright, television writer, and screenwriter. Stanton was a producer and writer for HBO's Succession, for which she won Emmy, WGA, and Peabody Awards. She has also written for The Baby, Modern Love, Dead Ringers, and Conversation with Friends.

Biography Stanton is from Aiea, Hawaii. She is of Korean and Chinese descent. Stanton attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts for a BFA and Yale School of Drama for an MFA Stanton was an inaugural recipient of the Venturous Playwrights Fellowship, an inaugural recipient of the Lark’s Van Lier Fellowship, and a two-time Sundance Institute Theater Lab Resident Playwright.

Awards Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers 2017 The Kilroys’ List 2015, 2016, 2017 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series (Succession) 2022, 2023

Works

Plays we, the invisibles Today Is My Birthday Both Your Houses Takarazuka!!! Cygnus Solstice Party! The Things Are Against Us The Underneath

Films Dress (2013, dir. Henry Ian Cusick)

Television Succession (2018-2023) Modern Love (2021) The Baby (2022) Conversations with Friends (2022) Dead Ringers (2023) Vladimir (2026)

Opera Turandot