Susannah Powers Stengel is a Seattle-based freelance screenwriter, playwright, creative producer, and theatre educator with Arkansas roots. Susannah earned her Theatre B.A. at Grinnell College, and her Master’s in Dramatic Literature at Indiana University, where she served as her department’s dramaturg/literary manager and began her love affair with writing (and rewriting) for the screen. 

 

After running theatre programs in schools across Texas, then finding live and streaming production opportunities in Chicago, Susannah-in-Seattle brings her passion to the page as a dedicated writer of television, shorts, and features. Susie explores juicy character tropes and layered human connection in her work as a professional matchmaker. Recent creative projects include: writing, script supervising, and acting for Seattle's 48 Hour Film Project, show running a Seattle-based comedy series, two of her original shorts produced in the summer of 2024, and writing horror television with Tapped House TV. Career joys ever multiply, but numbering among past triumphs: running improv workshops with the Chance the Rapper Arts Fund and writing a dozen scripts with Tellyfish co-creator Hannah. From Buffy to Bronte, Schitt’s Creek to Suzan-Lori Parks—Susannah ensnares a large scope of influences within her warm, zany, queer lens. When Susannah is not chasing the story, she is taking long walks alone in the dark listening to murder podcasts, playing Dungeons and Dragons, or off in the forest with her partner, Jeremiah.