Susan Solt was Senior Vice-President of Production for Miramax Films before becoming Dean of the School of Theater at CalArts in 1995, a position she resigned after serving eight highly productive years. While at Miramax, she oversaw production for Flirting with Disaster, Beautiful Girls, The Crossing Guard, Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead and Citizen Ruth. As a feature film producer, her credits include the Warner Bros. box office hits Presumed Innocent, starring Harrison Ford, and Doc Hollywood, starring Michael J. Fox. For eight years Solt was exclusively Academy Award winning filmmaker Alan J. Pakula's producer. As head of production for Pakula Productions, she oversaw every facet of motion picture development, production, post-production and marketing. Solt's film career began with Pakula's Sophie's Choice, starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline. The films she produced for Pakula include: See You In The Morning, starring Jeff Bridges; Lyle Kessler's Orphans, starring Albert Finney and Matthew Modine; and Dreamlover, starring Kristy McNichol. Solt has developed several screenplay adaptations, most notably The Sea, The Sea, the Booker Prize winning novel by Irish author Iris Murdoch.

As a theater producer, Solt is a founding member of the interdisciplinary performance company @muse.calarts, which included Scottish painter Thomas Lawson and composer Michael Fink. Solt produced the group's early collaboration, Deirdre, by W.B. Yeats directed by Irene Connors, which played the Queen's Hall during the 50th annual Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Solt is founding Producer/Artistic Director for the Center for New Theater at CalArts, the professional producing arm of the School of Theater. Under her leadership: the CNT's world premieres of Richard Foreman and Sophie Havilland's Bad Behavior, and Zaven Pare and Alan Weiss' production of Valere Novarina's Theater of the Ears as a “radiophonic play for electronic marionette.” This production was presented at the 2000 Henson International Festival of Puppet Art in New York and, summer 2001, at Festival d'Avignon. In 2002, Solt produced the CNT's production of King Lear, directed by Travis Preston with Fran Bennett in the title role, both in its world premiere at the Brewery in Los Angeles and for its subsequent production in France at the 2003 Frictions Festival, sponsored by Theatre Dijon Bourgogne. Solt received an NAACP Image Award as Producer of King Lear. During her tenure with the Center, Solt commissioned a production of Peach Blossom Fan adapted by Edward Mast with original music by Stephen Merritt. The production was conceived and directed by the internationally renowned artist Chen Shi-Zheng and premiered at REDCAT in Spring 2004. Solt served as a dramaturg and consultant producer on director Karin Coonrod's ongoing project Laude In Urbis in Orvieto, Italy.

Solt's training and background are in the Theater. She studied acting in England and directing and dramaturgy in Poland on a Fulbright Fellowship. While in Poland she worked with Jerzy Grotowski and members of his company at the acclaimed Laboratory Theater in Wroclaw. At the Yale Repertory she served as Company Manager for Artistic Director Lloyd Richard's inaugural 1980 Winterfest of New American Plays. In addition to her Fulbright, Solt is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, an IREX Research Fellowship, and an Asian Cultural Council Fellowship. Solt studied at Smith College and is a graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington. Solt holds an M.F.A. in Theatre Administration from the Yale School of Drama.