Susanna has been developing In Sisters We Trust, or My Fucked Up American Girl Doll Play with her collaborator playwright Justine Gelfman.
The play recently received an industry reading at Open Jar Studios featuring 2022 Tony nominee Gabby Beans (The Skin of Our Teeth), Tony nominee Kristine Nielsen (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike), Catherine Cohen (The Twist…? She’s Gorgeous), Tony nominee Caitlin Kinnunen (The Prom), Laura Dreyfuss (Dear Evan Hansen), Nicole Villamil (Network), Christine Jones (Marry Me), Jonathan Burke (The Inheritance), Elizabeth O'Donnell (Curb Your Enthusiasm), and Sohina Sidhu (Little Voice).
The American Girl Dolls are all grown up and gathered together for a televised Bachelor-style reunion to decide the fate of the company. But suddenly, the girls start disappearing; something glitches and we’re thrown into a glossy feminist co-working space on the brink of expansion. The progressive women at the helm are still perpetuating age-old oppressive practices, now just in a shade of millennial pink. In Sisters We Trust, or My Fucked Up American Girl Doll Play investigates how corporate feminism is repeating and rebranding mistakes of the past instead of finding new pathways to empowerment.This is an historically inaccurate play about $80 dolls, intersectionality and self-identifying female co-working spaces.
The play was selected as the winner of the Dennis and Victoria Ross Foundation’s Playwrights Program and has previously received development at Williamstown Theatre Festival and Access Theater.