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Susan Seidelman Susan Seidelman (born December 11, 1952) is an American film director, producer and writer. She came to prominence in the 1980s with "Smithereens", the first American independent feature to be screened in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Her next feature "Desperately Seeking Susan" co-starred Madonna in her first film. "She-Devil" co-starred Roseanne Barr in her first feature-film role and Meryl Streep in her first starring comedic film role. Seidelman's subsequent films mix comedy with drama, blending genres and pop-cultural references with a focus on women protagonists, particularly outsiders. She also works in television and directed the pilot episode of "Sex and the City".
Musical Chairs (film) Musical Chairs is a dance film starring Leah Pipes, E. J. Bonilla, Auti Angel, Laverne Cox, and Priscilla Lopez, and directed by Susan Seidelman. It is a romance involving a couple who participates in wheelchair ballroom dancing. In development for eight years before it was finally made, the film played at several festivals starting in 2011, including the Woodstock Film Festival. It was released on March 23, 2012. It played only a week in New York City, where it was entirely filmed, but as of March 30, 2012, opened in other locations in platform release. It premiered on cable TV (HBO) in December 2013.