Susan Price Monnot is an award-winning New Orleans playwright whose plays have been performed in eight states across the U.S.  She has received twenty-seven distinctions for playwriting excellence and her plays have received twenty productions.  Susan's comedy, Dead Dogs Don't Fart, won the 2006 Diverse Playwriting Contest sponsored by the Hinton Battle Theatre Laboratory in New York City.  The play also won the 21st Annual New Play Project (Backdoor Theatre), was a finalist in the Morton Sarett Playwriting Competition, and won the Deland Theatre Festival. The latest production of Dead Dogs at the Sands Theatre in DeLand, Florida, enjoyed completely sold out performances during a three-week run.  Susan's drama, Where Time Is Money, has been performed by five production companies in four different states and has won six awards.  Her comedy, Snoring? Not Me! was selected and performed in the New Play Festival at Gardner-Webb University, NC.  Her musical, Hearts, produced by Prime Time Theatre Productions, was nominated for the Storer Boone award and the Marquee award as best original play performed in New Orleans in 2001.

Not Without Grandma was performed at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center and also at Metairie’s Carlone’s Dinner theatre in 2002. In 2003, Susan’s Christmas Reflections was presented as a children’s Christmas piece by OLPS Children’s Theatre. Cabin Fever was awarded an honorable mention by the McLaren Memorial Comedy Play Writing Competition in 2005 and received a cold reading at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center.  The play was later work-shopped in the Playwright’s Unit of New Orleans. A list of titles to Susan's many other plays can be seen on http://www.susanpricemonnot.com/resume.htm.

Susan received her BA degree from St. Mary’s Dominican college and her masters from the University of New Orleans. Her music has been used for video sound tracks, multimedia applications, and worship and music education programs in Louisiana. Susan is a  member of  The Playwrights’ Center and the Dramatists Guild of America.