Susan Marshall, Choreographer, is the Artistic Director/Choreographer of Susan Marshall & Company, which, since 1982, has performed the more than thirty dance works she has created with them including: One and Only You, The Descent Beckons, The Most Dangerous Room in the House, Spectators at an Event, Fields of View, Contenders, Arms, Interior with Seven Figures, Kiss, Standing Duet and Cloudless .  Marshall’s collaboration with the dancers of Susan Marshall & Company has been the main influence on the development of her choreographic process and work. In 1996, Marshall choreographed and directed Les Enfants Terribles, a dance/opera created in collaboration with composer Philip Glass.  Marshall has also created dances for the Lyon Opera Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, Boston Ballet and Montreal Danse.  Marshall has collaborated with director Francesca Zambello on operas staged for the Los Angeles Music Center and the New York City Opera.  A recipient of a 2000 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, she has received a Dance Magazine Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Brandeis University Creative Arts Citation, and the American Choreographer Award.  She has received five National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and three New York Dance and Performance Awards (BESSIES) for Outstanding Choreographic Achievement.  The first BESSIE came in 1985 following the company’s premiere concert at Dance Theater Workshop, the second came in 1997 for her collaboration with Philip Glass on Les Enfants Terribles and the third was received in 2006 for Clouldess.