Susan Merson - Actor, Writer, Producer, Educator

SUSAN MERSON - Actor, Writer, Producer, Educator

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Starting over is hard enough but when ghosts decide to hitch a ride into the future—things can get complicated.

Widowed Vivi leaves California for a new start back east landing in a college town near her old friend Vikram, now the local "spiritual" leader and disappointing lover. But the two have old business which leads them to uncovering the ghosts they conjured long before and the ones that are haunting them now.

Dreaming in Daylight is now available as an audio book, so grab a copy and sit back and Susan will read to you...

Susan Merson,

author, theatre professional, maker, tarot counselor

Susan Merson began her career as an actress on and off Broadway, in television and film. Co-founding the LA Writers Bloc in 1985 with award winning writer Jane Anderson, she has mentored writers through the Bloc and through her private and university classes in Playwriting, Life Stories, Writing as a Spiritual Practice, Tarot for Writers and the popular VOICING Series.

Her short fiction has been featured in The Jew in America, Nice Jewish Girls (Penguin), The Worcester Review, the Chicken Soup series and several other online platforms. As a playwright, her award winning plays have been performed internationally, including her 8 solo plays featured and used as example in YOUR NAME HERE: An Actor Writers Guide to Solo Performance. (Amazon). Long form fiction available on Amazon is her award winning blog, WHEN THEY GO AND YOU DO NOT and her first novel, DREAMING IN DAYLIGHT. OH GOOD NOW THIS , her newest novel launches 2/1/21.

She is a tarot reader and counselor, a maker of quilts, clothing and whimsy. Susan is a humble mother and a proud resident of New York City.

Please email me at susan@susanmerson.com for more information.

THE WRITER'S BLOC

A founding member of the LOS ANGELES WRITERS BLOC, I have been consulting with writers and experiencing the joy of collaboration and friendship in this setting for over twenty five years. The new NY WRITERS BLOC is a safe haven writers workshop for fiction, non fiction, theatre, film and poetry projects. Please email me at susan@susanmerson.com for more information of the BLOC..

Sylvan Salon Series - a private gathering of artists offering and appreciating the work of selected musicians and spoken word.

My musical play, Between Pretty Places recently ran at the 13th St Rep in NYC

First reading of Between Pretty Places