Susan Simpson is a Los Angeles based, multidisciplinary artist and designer. Her practice includes  puppet theater, dioramas and animation. She makes performances and interactive public art works that engage viewers in intimate viewing. Her works often investigate the history, mythology and social dynamics of the sites where they are located.

 Since 2004 she has been the Co-Artistic Director, of Automata, an organization dedicated to puppet theater and other lost and neglected forms, with a storefront theater in Chinatown.

Orginal puppetry performances which Simpson design and directs have been presented at HERE in New York, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, The Santa Monica Museum, REDCAT, Automata among other venues.  She has received funding from Creative Capital, The MAP Fund, The Center for Cultural Innovation, The Jim Henson Foundation, The California Community Foundation, The Durfee Foundation. She is a recipient of Center Theatre Group’s Richard E.Sherwood Award.

Simpson also has design practice centered on interactive cabinets, kiosks and sculptural objects for display and discovery. She has been commissioned by The Huntington Library, Gardens and Art Collections, The Readers Chorus, The Falcon Theater, The City of Inglewood and Reading Hours Gallery, and The Silver Lake Library.  She is currently designing a concrete time capsule for the SIlver Lake branch of the Los Angeles Public Library.

You can contact Susan at ssimpson.la@gmail.com