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In Episode 22 of Talking MEWShop, "Hacks" Editor Susan Vaill, ACE, talks with the MEW crew about her amazing career and industry achievements. Susan discusses how collaboration with showrunners and the "Me Too" movement significantly impacts women's opportunities in the film industry. She goes over how networking leads to career advancements, especially in television, while challenges from her long tenure on "Grey's Anatomy's" first season are recounted. The conversation also explores the future of editing, focusing on legacy and mental health.
Susan Vaill, is an editor of both comedy and drama series, including “Hacks,” “This Is Us,” “Space Force,” and “Grey’s Anatomy.” Susan’s love of music-driven storytelling has led her to be described as ‘a legendary music supervisor masquerading as an award-winning editor.’ In 2022 Susan won the ACE Eddie award for Television Comedy Editing for the “Hacks” episode, “1.69 Million, as well as a 2021 Emmy nomination for editing the “Hacks” episode “Primm,” and an HPA Award for editing the “Hacks” episode “Falling."
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Susan first entered the film industry in an ‘80s Doublemint gum commercial and the Hal Ashby film “Bound For Glory.” She studied film theory and art history at Williams College and got an MFA in film production at USC. After assistant-editing on documentaries and feature films like “The Last Samurai,” Susan edited over 70 episodes of “Grey’s Anatomy” which won the Golden Globe for Best Drama Series in 2008. Her very first episode "Into You Like A Train" was nominated for the DGA Award in Drama. Susan also directed three episodes of the series, one of which featured an Emmy-winning performance by guest actress Loretta Devine.
After a decade at "Grey’s Anatomy," Susan turned to comedy, editing the HBOMAX series “Hacks” led by Jean Smart, “Space Force” led by Steve Carrell, “Grandfathered” led by John Stamos, and “Me, Myself & I” led by Bobby Moynihan and John Larroquette. She returned to drama to edit the upcoming HBO limited series “The Time-Traveler’s Wife,” the award-winning NBC drama “This Is Us,” and the critically acclaimed AMC dramedy “Lodge 49.” Her “Lodge 49” episodes "Circles" and "Le Reve Impossible" earned spots on The New York Times’ and Entertainment Weekly’s year-end lists of Best Episodes of Television of 2019.
Manhattan Edit Workshop is a New York Film Editing School offering a full range of basic to advanced training courses, from the Avid, Autodesk, Assimilate, Blackmagic, and Apple products to the complete suite of Adobe applications.
Manhattan Edit Workshop's mission is to provide the highest-quality education for filmmakers and editors, focusing on the art and technology inherent to our craft. We foster a "learn by doing" approach in an atmosphere where mistakes are encouraged as part of the process and the only "silly" question is the one that isn't asked.
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