Join us for the 6th Salon Series Reading of the 2017-2018 Season, Sunday, April 29 at 2PM.

3GT presents a staged reading 

HUDSON’s WIFE

By Susan Jackson

Directed by Louis Parnell

HUDSON’S WIFE is based on the book, “MY LIFE WITH ROCK HUDSON” written by Phyllis Gates, Rock Hudson’s wife of three years. Jackson has added her own twist to the drama surrounding Rock Hudson and his short lived marriage. In this play, scenes between the Hollywood legend and his wife are interspersed with conversations between his now ex-wife and an over-eager writer, Bob Thomas, right after the death of Rock Hudson. How much did Hollywood know of this arrangement and was Phyllis a part of the conspiracy, or simply a pawn to keep Rock’s sexuality a secret? Ambition reigns in this drama about betrayal, lust, love and loss.

3GT Resident Playwright Susan Jackson received the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Original Play for BLESSING HER HEART, 2009, which one “Top Ten” at SF FRINGE. Her plays have been staged- read/produced in: London, Sydney, New York City, South Carolina and all over the Bay Area.   HEATHEN, PASSED and A RAZING IN MISSOURI were performed for the Eugene O’Neill Foundation/PlayGround in Danville, Ca. The Southern Railroad Theatre Company has produced her work for the past five years. She is an alumnus of PlayGround, a member of Pear Writer’s Guild and the Dramatist’s Guild of America. She is also a Bay Area actress—she’s performed the roles of several famous women: Jackie Kennedy, Joan Crawford, Sarah Bernhardt, Stevie Smith,  and Dorothy Parker.     In addition to her theatre credentials, Susan taught Theatre classes at City College of San Francisco, where she created and taught the Playwrighting curriculum.