The Biography

Susan began her career as a ballet dancer and trained under George Balanchine at School of American Ballet in NewYork City. Her professional career in dance included Eglevsky Ballet in New York City, The Hannover Ballet in Germany and finally the Cleveland Ballet, all of she toured with extensively She settled back in her hometown of Los Angeles and began her acting training with Susan Peretz and Charlie Laughton of the Actors Studio and with Bill Traylor of "The Loft", now known as "The Lost "Studio". After working with members of the Actors Conservatory Ensemble in a well received but small production of John Patrick Shanley's "Savage in Limbo", Susan began supporting herself with odd jobs; namely art modeling and waitressing so she could continue her passion. Since then, Susan has built an extensive resume of dramatic and comedic roles in a variety of contemporary and classic plays on a number of LA stages including The Marylin Monroe theater, The Hudson Backstage, Theater West, The Tiffany, ACT at the Lex, The Gene Dynarski Theater and The Rose, The list includes:the award winning production of "Detective Story" (Best Ensemble), the two character David Mamet play "Reunion" which she won a Drama Logue Award for best performance, Harold Pinter's two character "The Lover", which received a 2003 LA Weekly Best One Act. Other roles include Lilly Garland in "Twentieth Century" recently performed at the Lillian, Irina in "Idiot's Delight" at the Lillian and Essie in "The Great Sebastions" also at the Lillian. She's also recently appeared in Ceasar and Cleopatra, God of Vengence, Tennesee Williams' "Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let me Listen", Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love", Sherwood Schartz' The Trial Of Othello, and Shanley's "Four Dogs and Bone".....to name a few. Susan has appeared in Lucky Louie and has a lead in Mafioso with Leo Rossi and Bobby Costanza, and has worked with Freddy Rodriguez and Marco Leonardi in "My Brother Jack". "What's up, Scarlet?", Susan's first feature that she produced, co-wrote and starred in has been seen all over the festival circuit including the OutFest in LA, Frameline in San Francisco, Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and a host of others in Europe, Canada and Australia. The film also stars Sally Kirkland, Jere Burns and Musetta Vander, and was shown theatrically at Laemmle's Sunset 5.