Susan H. Pak is a Chicago-based playwright, who has taught theater and scriptwriting at the university-level for over a decade. Susan received an MFA in writing for the screen and stage at Northwestern University, and she received both a BA and a JD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Productions and readings of her work include: The F*ck House at Strawdog Theater, an adaptation of Yahgsook Choi’s THE NAME JAR, at Stages Theater in Minneapolis, Masks Off at the Goodman Theater, Miguk Saram at Denver’s Local Lab 2021, Election at the Goodman Theater, The Fixer at the Steppenwolf Theater, Ghost Girl at the Workshop Theater, T.A.B. at New York’s Downtown Urban Theater Festival and the Manhattan Repertory Theater Festival, and Incredible Invisible at Chicago’s Bailiwick Director’s Fest.
Susan’s plays Miguk Saram and The F*ck House were both finalists at the 2020 and 2021 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Susan was also a member of the 2021/2022 Goodman Playwrights Unit, and the 2023/2024 BIPOC Resident Playwright at Strawdog Theater Company.