SUZANNE KARPINSKI is a professional stage director, instructor and musician living in Los Angeles. Suzanne is interested in working with new plays and re-imagining classic texts to gain a broader perspective on the social issues we currently face. Suzanne completed a Certificate of Merit in piano though Arizona State University School of Music at the age of eighteen and received her BA as a recipient of the Founders Scholarship to Chapman University. Her directing work includes the development of new plays, such as The Gas House (Sacred Fools Theater), True Genius (Hollywood Fight Club), and 96 Layers (Attic Theater), as well as work by well known playwrights Caryl Churchill, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Doug Wright. Her most recent work, Madness In Valencia, is a new translation of the 17th century playwright Lope de Vega by Royal Shakespeare Company's David Johnston.

As assistant director, Suzanne worked for David Emmes and South Coast Repertory in their US premiere of Joe Penhalls’s Dumb Show, The Old Globe in San Diego on Somerset Maugham’s The Constant Wife directed by Seret Scott, and for Paul Lazarus at the Pasadena Playhouse, where she received an Observership by the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers on their 2008 production of Of Mice and Men. She has recently been invited to attend and teach at The Indy Convergence workshop, hosted by the Wheeler Arts Community in Indianapolis.

As instructor, Ms. Karpinski has taught piano for the last 7 years in her own studio as well as for the Hollywood Academy of Music. She has served as Co-Artistic Director for Sacred Fools Theater Company and will be producing a new play "Hamlet, Shut Up", this coming fall.