SUSAN IZATT
DIRECTOR, DRAMATURG, ACTOR
Directing & Dramaturgy Highlights: The Workshop Theater: Associate Artistic Director 2017-2019; Literary Associate & Dramaturg 2014 to 2017.: The Actor’s Studio’s Director Unit (current), The Actor's Studio Playwright Directors Workshop (current); Broadway Bound Theater Festival, Mona Lisa And The Cross, playwright K.K. Gordon; Badger And Frame, Emerging Artists Theatre's New Works Series, playwright Scott C. Sickles; Director/Dramaturg Fabulous Darshan, Chicken And Egg Soup, All You Can Eat, Memory Play, Jesus In A Beehive (The Workshop Theater, John Houseman Studio Too, The Duplex, and Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival) playwright Bob Stewart. Director, In The Ball Park, playwright John Lewis (JET Theatre); Director, Floating Snakeskin, (Theatre at DFN Gallery): Chase Bank (Corporate Industrials). MoonSoup Productions, Artistic Director (1996-2000) Highlights: CitiSchools Shakespeare for NYC school tours; Memory Play (“Best Of The Fest” MITF 1999). Teaching Artist: Drama, at United Nations International School; Music & Movement for young children; Expressive Yoga & Movement for youth.
Acting Highlights: Off-Broadway, Julia, in That Ilk, Hudson Guild Theater, directed by Jere Jacobs; Kathy, in Northern Country at Henry Street Settlement, directed by Dorothy Lyman. Regional: Rita in Educating Rita at Main Street Theater, Quakertown (“Best Actress” award). Theater NYC: Princess Ira, Verse Theatre’s 1953, written by Paul Raine (UK Poet) USA premiere; Duchess of Glouchester, in Tribeca Lab’s Richard II; Amanda in Composure at The Workshop Theater, (NYIT Award winner) by Scott C. Sickles, Fritz Brekeller Director; Heather in Gideon’s Knot, The Seeing Place Theatre.
Voice Over & Radio: Highlights include work for Pathmark, True Balance & Sesame Street, NFL, Dunkin Donuts.
Affiliations & Unions:The League of Professional Theatre Women: Board member; Co-chair of Mentorship/Apprentices; Board Secretary. Unions & Professional Affiliations: SDC, AEA, SAG-AFTRA. LPTW
"I hope you know how much I loved working with you — it was absolutely life-changing, the best creative collaboration I could ever have dreamed of...”
- Nina Combs, playwright RACKED!
Some Reviews & Images
EDUCATING RITA
By Willy Russell
Susan Izatt is a real triumph as Rita. She even modifies her accent scene by scene as Rita's ideas about the intellectual and social values of knowledge change. Is she a novice come to dedicate herself to a dimly percieved ideal? is she a phony social climber? A blast of fresh air let in on the dusty old books and bottles? An intellectual snob? A perceptive, wisely forgiving admirer of a man who's really better than he thinks he is but needs to be led to that conclusion? All of the above and more.
The Morning Call, Staff Report review.
FABULOUS DARSHAN
by Bob Stewart:
“… Director Susan Izatt has choreographed a fluid dance of gorgeous design elements and rich, emotionally nuanced performances…”
Theatre Is Easy, review by Steve Hauck
FABULOUS DARSHAN
by Bob Stewart:
“…A concentrated 90 minutes on a minimal but elegant set, Fabulous Darshan is really all about the acting…"
"...It’s clear that Ms. Izatt is an actor’s director..."
Review by Georgina Young-Ellis
COMPOSURE
by Scott C. Sickles
Susan Izatt gives a fine, incisive performance, making it clear that Amanda is trying very hard not to hate her former husband but she is still not able to make peace with the fact of who he now is. We feel the control Amanda exerts over her feelings and even over Jeff and when things reach a breaking point, Ms. Izatt’s delivery of irony and anger are all the more pointed and yet still sympathetic.
Theatre Is Easy, review by Shoshanna Roberts
GIDION'S KNOT
Throughout the evening, the two actresses, under Brandon Walker's direction, give nuanced and emotionally honest performances of complicated characters... gradually Ms. Izatt shows us that beneath Heather's insecure demeanor, there beats the heart of a teacher anyone would be proud of, who authentically cares about her students, who listens to them and learns from them.
Talkin Broadway.com, Off Broadway Reviews,
Theatre Review by Howard Miller
A MEMORY PLAY
by Bob Stewart
"Susan Izatt is outstanding as Judy, a Southern belle harboring secrets…”
Show Business Weekly,
review by Kristin Forte
A MEMORY PLAY
by Bob Stewart
“…Susan Izatt’s work as Judy, the prim and proper Southern lady with a remarkably big secret in her past is particularly strong. While it could be easy to reduce the role to a Blanche Du Bois knock-off, she gives Judy depth…”"
STAGE BUZZ.COM,
review by Byrne Harrison
A la Carte: A Feast of New Plays
EAT DESSERT FIRST, by Dana Leslie Goldstein
The Workshop Theater
Susan Izatt was sensational as the pink Chanel suited, unconventional food authority whose beliefs included having pancakes for dinner and eating dessert first. With her husky voice, wry delivery, and comedic depth, she was wonderfully reminiscent of Eileen Heckart.
Darryl Reilly, Critic
theaterscene.net
