​Sue Frumin is a British playwright, performer, activist and creative born in Manchester. 
 
She began her career in 1975 as an administrator at the Albany Empire, Deptford.
https://www.thealbany.org.uk/ Later, she moved on to the Soho Poly (a forerunner of The Soho Theatre) and decided to take advantage of the encouraging environment and started writing plays.
https://programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/12146
 
Sue is the daughter of a Czech refugee, and many of her plays draw on her family history. For example, her one-woman show, "The House Trample", evokes the experience of her mother as a refugee arriving in war-time Manchester, working on the buses and in factories, confronting prejudice and isolation, and fearing for friends left behind in Prague. The House Trample was published in "Davis, Lesbian Plays 2" Methuen, London.
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Lesbian_Plays_II.html?id=oCmaAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y​

Sue's plays also draw on her experience as a lesbian, and being at the forefront of The Women's Liberation. In 1985, Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company
https://unfinishedhistories.com/history/companies/gay-sweatshop/?pid=1291commissioned Sue to write "Raising the Wreck", which uses song and storytelling to rediscover the hidden history of women pirates, escapees from social convention and sexual oppression, haunting a sunken galleon. The performers were all female, and for the first time in the company’s history, the play had a multi-racial cast. https://theatricalia.com/play/5cp/raising-the-wreck/production/bsn One of the audience members was a young, and now acclaimed poet and writer, Joelle Taylor, who has long said that Sue was such an idol and inspiration to her- both as a writer and young lesbian: http://joelletaylor.co.uk. Indeed many now well known creatives have worked with Sue, including the wonderful Robson Green, who performed in her play, ''Scrap'', with Live Theatre, Newcastle, and credits her during his interview with Michael Parkinson about how he began. https://theatricalia.com/play/kbb/scrap/production/1dyc Not forgetting Booker Prize winner, Bernardine Evaristo, who was in the original cast of ''Raising the Wreck''. https://bevaristo.com/
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As well as writing plays and scripts, during her career, Sue was involved with the formation of a comedy team, "Red Bucket"- a satirical take on the LGBTQ+ and socialist theatre companies of the day, with Andy Lipman, Noel Greig and Philip Timmins. Their repertoire, included “The Life
and Times of Arthur Sprocket (the man who invented Feminism) and “The Great Wendy” a TIE show and “Making Money” based on the Hollywood Blockbuster “Making Love” about a gay man who comes out to his straight wife. In Red Bucket’s version they both came out!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Greig
 
Sue formed her own theatre company, Shameful Practice, in the early 1990’s and produced “Home Sweet Home” and “Fanny Whittington'' at Oval House. She was nominated for a Fringe First for the lyrics and music for the “Beggars Opry” with the music being written by Jilly Jarman. 
https://theatricalia.com/company/7vn/shameful-practice
 
As well as writing, Sue has also worked as a circuit comedian and produced “Benders DIY” for Gay Shame Goes Macho, and “Fannies Fancies” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgseCQAxWWI for Gay Shame goes Girlie, all for Duckie. Sue also performed in “Duckie Goes to the Gateways”, Gross Indecency”, Lady Malcolm’s Servants Ball, and “Duckie Loves Fanny” at Walthamstow Town Hall. https://www.duckie.co.uk/
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Sue's plays have been critiqued in various publications such as, "Putting Your Daughters on the Stage: Lesbian Theatre from the 1970s to the 1990s", by Sandra Freeman, and an essay by Rose Collis regarding lesbian theatre featured in, "British and Irish Women Dramatists since 1958", edited by Trevor Griffiths and Margaret Llewellyn Jones.
https://catalogue.library.ulster.ac.uk/items/665733?query=freeman https://www.rosecollis.com/books/british-and-irish-women-dramatists-since-1958-a-critical-handbook-gender-in-writing-series-oup-1993/
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Since moving back up north, Sue has continued to be her eclectic and multi-disciplined self, and has worked with Tom Yum Sim, along with musician, and producer of So Many Beauties (the dementia friendly music festival at The Bridgewater Hall), Holly Marland, on the development of “Swansong in Mud Valley”. This was commissioned and produced by Happy Valley Pride.
https://www.tomyumsim.com/  https://hollymarlandmusic.com/
https://happyvalleypride.co.uk/whats-on/48/big-night-out-starring-top-of-the-flops
 
Sue also produced a celebration of Victoria Wood night and Molly and Dandy's Speakeasy variety night for the local community, organised various zoom play readings during lockdown, and wrote “No Sign of Dick” (Dick Whittington) which she also directed with Hayley Cartwright, as well as writing and appearing as Scroogie in “Bah Humbug, a Queerky Christmas Carol''- again directed by Hayley Cartwright www.hayleycartwright.com Both of which were a sell-out.