Writing

Note: To better protect my work, a link to my more comprehensive portfolio (scripts and other writing samples) is available upon request. Please email suzanneskaar@gmail.com. Thank you.

Writer/ Artist/ Audio Design/ Creative Director: “The Suciasaurus Scrolls: A Grit City Adventure”

Pixel art game about power, gatekeeping, knowledge, and accessibility: with dinosaurs! Loosely based on Tacoma, WA. Awarded Tacoma Artist Initiative Project (TAIP) funding 2021-2023. This game started as a solo dev endeavor but will soon be expanding. More information to come. Release date: TBD.

Writer/ Illustrator/ Animator/ Voiceover/ Editor: “Yeetcosystem“

Animated satirical response to the idea that building more luxury housing will solve the housing crisis. 2023. Tacoma Film Festival 2023 (Tacoma, WA). Valkyrie International Film Festival 2024 (Buffalo, NY).

Writer/ Director/ Cinematographer/ Editor: “Parenting GO!“

Tacoma’s 72-hour 253 Film Competition entry, 2023.

Writer: “Living Wage Initiative 2021”

Sample initiative to address unfair disparity between minimum wage workers’ and elected officials’ salaries based on 2021 data. (Slightly satirical.)

Writer: “Genius”

2020 essay about knowledge and sexism. Better for adult audiences.

Writer: “Rock Salt”

Essay about disabilities and unnecessary barriers.

Writer: “Connections vs. Corruption: Where is the Line?”

2020 analysis of Tacoma City Council vote which awarded a $2 million settlement to U.S. Oil and whether those who voted were legally allowed to do so based on previous election contributions.

Writer: “The Biopsy”

Prose selected for Creative Colloquy Print Anthology Volume 6, 2020.

Writer: “Agia Paraskevi”

Poem selected for The London Reader’s Winter 2019 issue: “Motherhood: Stories of Love, Loss, and Life.”

Writer/ Presenter: “Controlling the Narrative: Gatekeeping, Secret Societies, and Good Ol’ Boys Networks”

Presentation for Portland Drunken Discourse, October 2019. Modified essay available at above link.

Writer/ Researcher/ Host: South End Neighborhood Council Neighborhood Moment

Tacoma City TV, May 2019

Writer/ Presenter: “Immigration and Tacoma: Past and Present”

Tripod Series, April 19. 2019

Writer/ Costumes/ Props/ Set Design: “Terrorium”

253 Film Festival 72 Hour Film Competition Entry, April 25-28, 2019.

Co-Writer/ Researcher: “Cannabis Crime Resolution“

I co-wrote the 2017 resolution to address racial and economic inequities in cannabis arrests and criminal records, endorsed by local Democratic LD’s including the 28th and 29th.

Host/ Producer: “Tacoma LNG” Episode

Amplify Tacoma, Radio Tacoma, 2016.

“Guerrilla Art and Protest in Modern Russia”

(MA thesis, UW Jackson School of International Studies, 2013)

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