Susan Busa Leshner has written for and optioned screenplays to NBC, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Cosgrove-Meurer Productions, Highway 101, and Go Dog! Creative. Her comedy short, Sleepover, was a festival selection at the Women Texas Film Festival and Austin Comedy Short Film Festival. In 2019, Susan won the Sundance Co//ab ‘Pitch Perfect’ contest for her screenplay Babydoll. A film short of Babydoll, will be released in 2023. She has written the narrative for the choreographic production THE FOUR SEASONS, which premieres in Spring 2023. In addition to her film work, she has written and directed nine youth musicals, including Welcome to Camp Katchikootee, A School for Superheroes and The Wicker Street War. A former James A. Michener Fellow in Screenwriting, Susan is a co-founder of Twenty-Two Twenty-Two Media and is a Lecturer in the Department of Theatre & Dance at Texas State University.