Susan F. Field - Performer/Poet/Playwigh

Susan F. Field, Poet, playwright and educator, with laser beam intimacy gives recognition to the internal rhythms of life through her writing.  Her musings on age, self-realization, and vulnerability are concieved in an introspective, unfettered style.  Published in numerous poetry journals, Susan Field has given poetry readings and full-length poetry performances in Chicago and nationally.

Before joining Patricia Murphy, as Co-Director of Chicago's Beacon Street Gallery & Theatre in 1990, Susan was an English teacher for 16 years; her work about problems faced by intuitively-gifted children has been published in educational journals such as The Reading Teacher and Gifted and Creatively Talented Children.  With Murphy's visual art as the set, Ms. Field's play One Gold Tooth was presented at Hull House Art Center in 1988.  Their creative partnership has continued since that time.  Their full length interdisciplinary arts production, Inversion, called a "stunning blend of confrontation and introspection," was performed at galleries across the country and recieved a "Critic's Pic" in Boston.

Susan F. Field, B.A., English from University of Illinois in Champaign, M.S., Secondary Education; co-director of Beacon Street Gallery and Theatre in Chicago and Geneva; high school English teacher for 16 years in the Elgin Public Schools; published poet; produced playwright; performance artist.  A Geneva resident, Susan has authored articles on the special needs of intuitively gifted children.

Field most recently performed her new one-woman show entitled Moon Milk with visuals by Murphy, at Chicago's Truman College in the Pegasus Theatre.

Field has been conducting Creative Arts Workshops for multi-aged participants in the Chicago area.  Each workshop encourages innovative, sincere, joyful, spontaneous, and deeply reflective expressions of the creative spirit through poetry, art, movement, and drama.  To Field, the wonders of creative potential are inherent in people of all ages and must be nurtured and celebrated and interwoven into everyday life!

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