- Susannah Talley has written spec dramedy scripts ready for full feature and boutique budget films with never-saw-it-coming twists and endings.
Her scripts honor and promote inclusivity and offer strong roles for older actresses and actors, as well as to new talent.
The protagonists are strong women-think Gena Rowlands from youth to elder years, gentle in nature until their true mettle takes center stage to deal with the edgier aspects of life. Antagonists range from hilarious to menacing-young, old, dead, alive, male, or female.
Talley's mantra, "Melodrama requires comedy to heighten what's at stake." Her scripts often serve up deft doses of satire lampooning the shallower traits of upper class culture and mores.
Her website, www.susannahtalley.com, offers more information on available scripts including a Sci-Fi stage play extolling guided psilocybin tripping, and Talley's memoir, The Dollhouse House: A Love Story, rumored to be her next screenplay.
- IMDb mini biography by: Joshua Kwasman
- Studied screenwriting at Brasenose College, University of Oxford, during the guest professorship of Colin Dexter, author of the Inspector Morse series for PBS.
- Marian Rees Productions pitched her graphic novella to Hallmark.
- Is the widow of Truman "Mac" Talley, editor and publisher of fine reads including, The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Publishers, Their Editors and Authors, by Al Silverman.
- Has access to high-end film locations.
- Received handwritten letter from Emma Thompson, in praise of "Celeste's Holiday", Talley's graphic novella - a story likened in mood to "Enchanted April" by theater critic, John Lahr.
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