Susan Morse

Education

Yale University.

Career

She had a notable collaboration with director from 1977 to 1998. She was recently nominated, as well, for an Emmy Award for her editing of the "Daddy"s Girlfriend (Participant Two)" episode of the popular Forex series Louie. Morse was one of the first female varsity captains in Yale history and the only junior in that group, in 1972/73, when she co-captained the field hockey team with Lawrie Mifflin, former Senior Editor at the New York Times.

Morse remained the team"s solo captain in their 1973/74 season.

Morse received a bachelor"s degree in history from Yale University in 1974. In 1975, she enrolled as a graduate student at New York University to study film production and was almost immediately offered an internship on a Public Broadcasting Service show directed by her professor Roberta Hodes, former script supervisor for Elia Kazan on On the Waterfront, among many other films.

Morse"s editing career began in September 1976 as an assistant to Ralph Rosenblum on Annie Hall. Rosenblum"s last film with Allen was Interiors (1978), after which he worked as a director

Starting with Manhattan (1979), she edited the next twenty of Allen"s films through Celebrity (1998).

Stephen Prince has summarized their collaboration as follows: " Morse edited every Allen film of the eighties, regardless of its subject matter or visual design, and as we have seen Allen worked with a variety of cinematographers and production designers in those years. His insistent use of Morse demonstrates the essential nature of her collaboration." Morse"s collaboration with Allen was the subject of a 1996 documentary film for German television Neither Morse nor Allen commented publicly on the end of their collaboration, but according to reporting in the New York Times, Morse was a victim of a cost-cutting move by producer Jean Doumanian that also severed ties with many other regular crew members on Allen"s films.

Since 1998, Morse has edited films with several directors including Marc Lawrence, with whom she"s worked on Two Weeks Notice (2002), Music and Lyrics (2007), and Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009).

She edited Last Night (2010), which was written and directed by Massy Tadjedin. Morse was recently tapped to edit the third season of Louie, which had previously been primarily edited by its creator, Louis C.K.

Achievements

• Morse has been elected to membership in the American Cinema Editors and was honored at the 25th Annual Muse Awards Gala for New York Women in Film and Television, along with Tina Faculty, Julianne Moore and Debra L. Lee, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Black Entertainment Television Network in 2005.