Susan Emshwiller Biography ((?)-)
Born in Levittown, NY; daughter of Ed (an avantgarde filmmaker) and Carol (anovelist; maiden name, Fried) Emshwiller; sister of Peter Emshwiller (a set dresser); married Chris Coulson (an actor).
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Set decorator, set dresser, set director, art director, production designer, writer, director, actress
Famous Works
- CREDITS
- Film Set Decorator
- The Kindred, FM Home Video, 1986
- Wired, Taurus Entertainment Company, 1989
- Gleaming the Cube, 1989
- The Player, Fine Line, 1992
- (As Susan J. Emshwiller) Short Cuts, Fine Line, 1993
- Indictment: The McMartin Trial, 1995
- (As Susan J. Emshwiller) Kansas City, Fine Line, 1996
- (As Susan J. Emshwiller) Cookie's Fortune, October Films, 1999
- Two Can Play That Game, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2001
- The Good Girl, Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2002
- (U.S. crew) Calendar Girls, Buena Vista, 2003
- Spartan, Warner Bros., 2004
- Film Work
- Set dresser, Tuff Turf, New World Pictures, 1985
- Set dresser, Runaway Train, Canon, 1985
- Set design, Basic Training, 1985
- Art director and production designer, Sorority House Massacre, Concorde Pictures, 1987
- Set director, Russkies, 1987
- Set decorator assistant (Yugoslavia), A Time of Destiny, 1988
- Production designer, Till There Was You, Sovereign Pictures, 1990
- Set director, The Player, Fine Line, 1992
- Also worked as director, The Desk Soldier; director, Mother's Day Teaser.
- Film Appearances
- Detective Broom, The Player, Fine Line, 1992
- Television Set Decorator
- Miniseries
- (As Susan J. Emshwiller; in Los Angeles) Blonde (also known as Marilyn Monroe), CBS, 2001
- Movies
- The Summer My Father Grew Up, NBC, 1991
- Past Tense, Showtime, 1991
- Replacing Dad, CBS, 1999
- Television Art Decorator
- Specials
- Testing Dirty, ABC, 1991
- Stage Director
- Directed Brush Strokes and productions at MET Theater, the Friendsand Artists Theater, the Loretta Theater, the Industry Showcase, and the Gardner Theater.
- WRITINGS
- Screenplays
- (As Susan J. Emshwiller) Pollock, Sony Pictures Classics, 2000
- Also wrote Dogtown; Hole in the Day; A Few Days with Me; Mother's Day; Cowboy Fiction; Cement Shoes; Burger World; Blind Sight; The Furnace.