Susan Werbe is an independent scholar who for thirty years has pursued her interest in the social, cultural, and political history of early 20th Century England, including a focus on the social and cultural history of World War One. Since 2013, she has worked with artists to create performance pieces that highlight individuals’ responses to the war, using original writings from men and women, from both sides of the conflict. Susan commissioned a dance piece based on an excerpt from an Isaac Rosenberg poem, which was performed in July 2013 at Boston’s Out-of-the-Box Arts Festival. She was the executive producer and dramaturg for The Great War Theatre Project: Messengers of a Bitter Truth (GWTP), performed in Boston, New York, and Letchworth (UK). In creating The Great War Theatre Project spoken word script, in collaboration with Script Advisor Kate Holland, Susan engaged in WWI primary source research in the US and the UK. GWTP and Letters That You Will Not Get are based on Susan’s original concepts. She has served as presenter or panelist at international conferences on WWI at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, USA, and at the University of Kent, UK. She was also a panelist speaking on Visual Memory in a Time of Endless War, presented in conjunction with the 2016 art installation Paul Emmanuel: Remnants, hosted by Boston University. Susan was a member of a panel presenting at the War, Literature & the Arts conference, which was held in September 2018 at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Susan holds a BA in English Literature from New York University and a Master’s in Education from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst.