Susanna Fogel


Susanna Fogel is a WGA Award and BAFTA Award nominated American director, screenwriter and author best known for her 2018 film The Spy Who Dumped Me starring Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon.

Career

Fogel and her writing partner Joni Lefkowitz originally wrote Life Partners as a one act play. They eventually adapted it into a screenplay which Fogel went on to direct. The film premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival.
Fogel co-created and executive produced the Lionsgate/ABC drama series Chasing Life, which ran for two seasons.
Feeling boxed in by the work she was getting, Fogel wrote the comedy-action thriller The Spy Who Dumped Me. The film was released in 2018 and starred Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon, the latter of whom had appeared briefly in Fogel's debut film.
Fogel co-wrote the script for Booksmart with Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins and Katie Silberman and was originally hired to direct the project. The screenplay was later nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay.
She directed the pilot episodes for the television series The Wilds, soon to debut on Amazon, and The Flight Attendant, soon to debut on HBO Max. She has also directed episodes of Gillian Flynn’s upcoming series Utopia, also for Amazon, and the return of Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories for Apple TV Plus.

Writing career

Fogel is a regular contributor to The New Yorker online.
Her novel, Nuclear Family: A Tragicomic Novel in Letters, was published in 2017.

Filmography