Susan Terrill's first independent production, "Growing Up and Liking It", a documentary on menstruation, received the Best Director's Award and a Sony Award at the 1992 NYU Video Festival, and was a co-winner at the Grand Prix Documentaire at the Festival du Jeune Cinéma in Montreal. She has also produced "Straighten Up", a cheesily-animated video which has been widely screened and broadcast. Susan is also one of the 1997 N.S.I. Drama winners for "The Chicken Tree".