media

Susan is currently a producer on the independent documentary film Girl Island: The Sandy Stone Story, and is working to develop a number of other scripted and documentary projects.

​

Her best-known film is the Emmy Award-winning Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (ITVS, 2005), which she co-wrote, -directed, and -produced.

​

Susan has appeared in, consulted on, or co-produced numerous trans-related film and media projects including The Lady and the Dale, Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen, No Ordinary Man, Tales of the City, We’ve Been Around, Forever’s Gonna Start Tonight, Pride, Genderation, and Gendernauts.

​

Susan cut her teeth in digital media working in the '90s as a scenarist and scriptwriter on Shu Lea Cheang's Brandon project, the first born-digital work commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum. Her short experimental film, Christine in the Cutting Room, is envisioned as part of a longer and long-delayed work-in-progress (viewable here at the 38:00 minute mark). Susan has cameos in Cary Cronenwett's art film, Maggots and Men, as well as Tobi Hill-Meyer's sexually explicit satirical sci-fi musical, The Genderfellator, in which she plays a leader of a revolutionary underground  trans resistance movement.