perform in Musical Chairs, where Armando and Mia's relationship develops within the world of competitive wheelchair ballroom dancing—a dance form popular in Europe and Asia, but mostly unknown in the U.S. The dance troupe, outsiders in the world of feature-film, include a transgender woman and an Iraqi veteran, highlighting dance as a form of self-expression available to everyone. Laverne Cox, who is transgender, has said that playing Chantelle, a disabled African American transgender woman, in a feature film was a career milestone. Personal life Seidelman is married to screenwriter and producer Jonathan Brett. , she lives in the "New Jersey countryside, to which she and her husband recently moved after several decades in downtown New York". Their son Ozzy is a producer and video editor. Awards and nominations Filmography Films Television References External links Literature on Susan Seidelman The Dutch Master on IMDb Living people Film producers from Pennsylvania Screenwriters from Pennsylvania American television directors Drexel University alumni American women film directors American women television directors New York University alumni People from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Writers from Philadelphia American women screenwriters Film directors from Pennsylvania 20th-century American actresses American film actresses American women film producers 21st-century American women 20th-century American Jews 21st-century American Jews 1952 births Women in punk