SUSAN YASSKY (The Stage Manager) is a playwright and dramaturg based in Brooklyn, NY. Her plays include Jake (2027 world premiere at The Old Globe, Ojai Playwrights Conference and O’Neill NPC finalist, 2025 Kilroys List), Manifestations (Ojai Playwrights Conference finalist, O’Neill NPC semi-finalist), and A Variation (Seven Devils Playwrights Conference semi-finalist). She has received commissions from Playwrights Horizons and the EST/Sloan Project, and is a former member of EST/Youngblood. MFA: NYU Tisch. BA: Yale University.