Susan Parenti, PhD
Susan Parenti composes and writes as means towards social change.
Parenti received her Bachelor's degree in composition at Northwestern University, 2-year study of composition/orchestration at l’Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome Italy with composer Gofredoo Petrassi; Master’s and Doctorate in composition at the University of Illinois with composer and activist Herbert Brün.
With Herbert and other conspirators, Susan has founded the Performer's Workshop Ensemble House Theater and the School for Designing a Society.
Susan has published two books: The Politics of the Adjective “Political” and other Plays and I and My Mouth and Their Irresistible Life in Language. She is co-writing a third book with Patch Adams, M.D., The Politics of Care.
Her current interests include teaching English as a second language to Americans, as a part of self-care and self-defense efforts in public health programs; to take experimental composing out of music schools and into the field of Communication where it will valiantly hold its own amidst and against its dubious colleagues—public relations, advertising, propaganda, violence, power-over and other legally protected forms of communication.
