Susan Skoog

An award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, and educator, Susan Skoog holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Undergraduate Drama program, where she studied at the Stella Adler Conservatory, and has an MFA in Screenwriting from National University. 

Susan wrote, produced, and directed the feature film, Whatever, (starring Liza Weil and Frederic Forrest), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically by Sony Pictures Classics. Having developed and written screenplays for Warner Brothers, HBO, MTV Films, and others, Susan has worked with such esteemed producers as John Wells, Ron Yerxa & Albert Berger, and the acclaimed novelist and television writer/producer George Pelecanos. Her award-winning digital series, Breeding Grounds, was selected for IFP’s (currently known as Gotham) Screen Forward Lab and the No Borders section of Film Week, and screened at numerous festivals, including in competition at the Catalyst Content Festival. Susan also has a successful career as a writer, director, editor, and producer of documentary and non-fiction programming for television networks such as VH1, Turner Network Television, Turner Classic Movies, AMC, FX, MTV, CBS, Fuse, Rave HD, TBS, TruTV/Court TV and PBS, including an hour-long documentary for PBS on George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, One Nation Under a Groove which she co-directed and edited. 

Prior to coming to NYU, Susan served as Dean of the School of Film and the Director of the BFA Screenwriting program at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. For over a decade, Susan taught screenwriting and directing full-time in the BFA Filmmaking Program at Montclair State University where she was honored with the Professing Excellence Award. She was also the Director of Programming for the Film Institute at Montclair State where she produced film educational programs, screenings, and events. Susan is a member of the WGA East, Film Fatales, has been a programmer and juror for film festivals, as well as a judge for The Humanitas Prize.

Education

BFA, Undergraduate Drama, Tisch NYU, MFA Screenwriting - National University