2012 Dorothy Loudon Award for Excellence in the Theater – Susan Pourfar (Tribes)

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SUSAN POURFAR is currently appearing in Nina Raine’s acclaimed new play Tribes at the Barrow Street Theatre, directed by David Cromer. Other NY credits: Lisa Kron’s In the Wake (Public Theater). When The Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center Theatre, David Cromer, dir), The Singing Forest (Public Theater, Mark Wing-Davey, dir), The Poor Itch (Public Theater, Lisa Peterson, dir), The Small (The Ohio, Les Waters, dir), Sasha in Chekhov’s Ivanov (Lake Lucille, Brian Mertes, dir), Swimming In The Shallows, and The Dear Boy (Second Stage, Trip Cullman/Michael Garces, dir), Iron (Manhattan Theatre Club, Anna Shapiro, dir), The Last Sunday In June (Rattlestick Theatre and Century Center for the Performing Arts, Trip Cullman, dir) and multiple productions with the Atlantic Theatre Company. Regional: Knickerbocker (Williamstown, Nicky Martin, dir), Passion Play (Yale Rep, Mark Wing-Davey, dir), Los Angeles premiere of Judas Iscariot (Black Dahlia, Matt Shakman, dir) as well as Long Wharf, Denver Center, Alliance, and three seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Susan has developed new work at the prestigious Sundance Lab, CTG in LA, and most recently with Bill Cain and Sarah Treem at the Ojai Playwrights Conference, in Ojai, CA. TV/Film: “Nurse Jackie,” “Numb3rs,” “The Sopranos,” “Third Watch,” “Law & Order.” Webisodes: “The Suffersons.” BA, Brown University.

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