BIOGRAPHY

Susan J. Vitucci is the librettist, director, puppet designer, and performer of LOVE’S FOWL, an opera in Italian with music by Henry Krieger. For her LOVE’S FOWL puppets, she was nominated for an American Theatre Wing Design Award (NY Theatre Workshop production). LOVE’S FOWL has toured throughout the U.S. to venues including Spoleto Festival USA, Portland (Oregon) Institute of Contemporary Art’s (PICA) TBA festival, and the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College.

She has written, directed and/or produced numerous special events for the 92nd Street Y, as well as for the Children’s Museum of Manhattan and the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, among others. I

Susan has written and directed many short plays for the 52nd Street Project, a program which pairs children from New York's Clinton neighborhood with theatrical professionals to make theatre, and edited the Project's 52 Pick-up: A Guide to Making Theater with Children by Willie Reale. She serves on the 52nd Street Project’s advisory board, is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s playwrights unit, has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow, is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect, and holds an MFA from the Yale University School of Drama. Susan edits the periodic fanzine and website for LOVE'S FOWL's puppet star La Pulcina Piccola. Susan is currently developing a new work, SMALL FISH, with music by Mr. Krieger.