Susan Emshwiller: Susan Emshwiller. Art Department: Runaway Train. Susan Emshwiller was raised in Levittown, N.Y. by writer Carol Emshwiller and sci-fi illustrator, avant-garde filmmaker Ed Emshwiller. She got her BFA from Syracuse University in painting and printmaking and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts where she studied film. As a set decorator, her "day job" for many years, she worked with David Mamet, Michael Apted, and happily with Robert Altman...
Known For: Runaway Train (Art Department), Pollock (Writer(as Susan J. Emshwiller)), Spartan (Set Decorator), The Player (Set Decorator)