Susan Vaill

Susan Vaill, ACE, is an editor of both comedy and drama series, including This Is Us (2016), Lodge 49 (2018) and the upcoming Space Force (2020) on Netflix. She has edited six television pilots and helped launch five shows in their first season. 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 (1976). She studied film theory and art history at Williams College and got an MFA in film production at USC. After assistant-editing documentaries and feature films like The Last Samurai (2003), Susan edited over 70 episodes of Grey's Anatomy (2005) which won the Golden Globe for Best Drama Series in 2008. Susan also directed three episodes of the series, one of which featured an Emmy-winning performance by guest actress Loretta Devine. More recently, Susan turned to comedy, editing the half-hour series Grandfathered (2015), Me, Myself and I (2017), and the upcoming comedy Space Force (2020), created by Greg Daniels and Steve Carrell. She also edited the legal drama Doubt (2017), the award-winning mega-hit This Is Us (2016), and the critically acclaimed AMC dramedy Lodge 49 (2018). Two of Susan's episodes of Lodge 49 (2018) earned spots on The New York Times' and Entertainment Weekly's year-end lists of Best Episodes of Television of 2019. In 2018, Susan was elected to the society of American Cinema Editors, and in 2019 she spearheaded 'Bumped Up: the Leadership Workshop for New Editors', co-sponsored by ACE and the Editors Guild, which she leads 2-3 times a year to mentor young editors. Susan's interests include golf, sewing, and music-driven story-telling, and her favorite karaoke song is "I'm On A Boat" by The Lonely Island.