Susan Busa Leshner
Susan is the writer/director of the audio drama podcast The American Immortal and the writer and host of The Wild Wild Death. In addition to her podcast work, she has written for and optioned screenplays to NBC, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Cosgrove-Meurer Productions, Highway 101, and Go Dog! Creative. Her comedy short, Sleepover, was a festival selection at the Women Texas Film Festival and Austin Comedy Short Film Festival. In 2019, Susan won the Sundance Co//ab ‘Pitch Perfect’ contest for her screenplay Babydoll. She has written and directed nine youth musicals, including Welcome to Camp Katchikootee, A School for Superheroes and The Wicker Street War. A former James A. Michener Fellow in Screenwriting, Susan is a co-founder of Twenty-Two Twenty-Two Media and an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre, Dance and Film at Texas State University.