Susanna Gellert

Susanna is Executive Artistic Director of Weston Theater Company in Souther Vermont. Directing credits at Weston include Singin’ in the Rain, Hair, Ring of Fire, and The Fantastics. Prior to joining Weston, she was Associate Producer and Director of the Studio at New York’s acclaimed Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA). At TFANA, she produced shows such as Shakespeare’s Pericles directed by Sir Trevor Nunn, the world premiere of Adrienne Kennedy’s He Brought Her Heart Back In A Box, Measure for Measure directed by Simon Godwin, and award winning productions of Thornton Wilder’s TheSkin Of Our Teeth and Soho Rep’s An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Susanna was Artistic Producer and Resident Director at Center Stage in Baltimore where she developed the theater’s Third Space Initiative and produced My America, which commissioned monologues by Christopher Durang, Neil LaBute, Lynn Nottage, and others. Directing credits in New York and Baltimore include Sense and Sensibility by Kate Hamill, the world premiere of Mud Blue Sky by Marisa Wegrzyn, Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley, Open the Dark Door by David Nugent, and Visiting Day by Andy Bragen. Additional directing credits include The Lacy Project by Alena Smith, You Can’t Take It With You by Kaufman and Hart, John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, and Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss. She holds degrees from Yale University, Columbia University, and the University of Chicago.