SUZANNE KARPINSKI is a professional stage director, musician and teacher living in New York. 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 in California. Suzanne is currently an MFA Directing candidate with The New School for Drama. 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), work by well known playwrights Caryl Churchill, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Doug Wright, as well as classics such as Lope de Vega's Madness In Valencia.

As assistant director, Suzanne worked extensively in Southern California for many regional productions. Projects include the US premiere of Joe Penhalls’s Dumb Show at South Coast Repertory, Somerset Maugham’s The Constant Wife at The Old Globe in San Diego, and Of Mice and Men at the Pasadena Playhouse, where she received an Observership by the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. She also has worked with the Virginia Avenue Project, a non-profit that pairs at risk kids with mentor artists in the development of original plays.

As instructor, Ms. Karpinski has taught piano for the last 8 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 has also worked as a producer, overseeing such award winning productions such as "Hamlet Shut Up" for the company in 2009, and later at the New York Fringe in 2010.