Biography

Susan Cartsonis is known for telling stories from the female perspective and advocating for inclusion and gender parity in the entertainment industry. She has founded Resonate Entertainment with partners Suzanne Farwell and Brent Emery to advance that purpose with their films. They have made several films together including the upcoming "Sitting in Bars with Cake" for Amazon, starring Bette Midler, Yara Shahidi, and Odessa A'Zion (2023).

The Hollywood Reporter named Cartsonis one of the top five grossing producers of the year for Paramount's "What Women Want"-the highest grossing romantic comedy of all time at the time of its release, starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt-and "Where the Heart Is" starring Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd, released by 20th Century Fox. She has produced recent hits including Netflix's "True Spirit", starring Anna Paquin, Cliff Curtis, Josh Lawson and Teagan Croft in 2023, "Feel the Beat", also for Netflix, starring Sofia Carson and Donna Lynne Champlin (2020), Disney's "Descendants 3" (2019), "Freaky Friday the Musical" (2018), "Deidra & Laney Rob a Train", (Sundance 2017), "The DUFF" (2016), "Beastly", "Middle School", "No Reservations" and "Aquamarine". "Carrie Pilby", (Toronto Film Festival, 2016), was produced with her Resonate Entertainment partners Suzanne Farwell and Brent Emery.

Prior to her producing career, Cartsonis was a studio executive at 20th Century Fox for nearly a decade, where she rose from script reader to Senior VP of Production, supervising over twenty films including "Nell", "French Kiss", "The Truth About Cats and Dogs", "For the Boys", "Dying Young", and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". At Fox she also supervised talent deals such as The Farrelly Brothers, Geena Davis, Richard Gere, and Johnny Depp.

Cartsonis is a member of AMPAS, the Television Academy and the Producer's Guild. She serves on the board of the female screenwriter's mentoring program The Writer's Lab founded by Meryl Streep and co-funded by Nicole Kidman and Oprah Winfrey. She serves on the board of the non-profit screenwriters workshop, Cinestory, and teaches at USC's School of Cinematic Arts.
- IMDb mini biography by: Susan Cartsonis