acting resume
SUSAN FERRARA
Dramatists Guild, SAG/AFTRA, AEA
SELECT NEW YORK THEATER
The wonder (solo performance, writer/performer) Directors Julie Ann Emery and Kevin Earley
winner: Best production/best of the festival, International United Solo Festival (Best Seller)
terraNova’s New Play Series (work-shop reading at Cherry Lane Theatre)
Nominated, Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award
Nominated, William Saroyan Human Rights/SoCIal Justice Award
Pumpkin Pie Show: Stump Speeches (posterboard woman) Clay McLeod Chapman, writer/director
New York Times' Critics Pick
Sans Merci (Elizabeth) Flux Theatre Ensemble, Heather Cohn, director
Bridesburg (Janet) Miscreant Theatre Company, Jack Young, director
First Prize (Laura Swift) KEF Theatrical Productions, Margarett Perry, director
Peasant (Solo Performance, Writer/Performer) The Zipper Theatre, Dale Heinen, director
DARGER…worst of all, now I’m an artist…(Darger/co-creator), Jeremy Williams, director/co-creator
The Weird Sisters (Porter) East 3rd Ensemble, ricardo Riethmueller, director
The Cherry Orchard (Ranevsky) Beckett Theatre, Resonance Ensemble, Eric Parness, director
Henry VI, Parts I, II & III (The Duke of York) Judith Shakespeare Company, Ivanna Cullinan, director
Sherlock Holmes & The Secret of Making Whoopee (Irene Adler) NY International Fringe festival,Davis McCallum, director
The Master Builder (Aline Solness) Clurman Theatre, Resonance Ensemble,Eric Parness, director
SELECT REGIONAL THEATRE
EL (Crossing Borders Festival) (Mirka/Phyllis) Two River Theatre, Michelle Bossy, Director - Reading
Orlando (World Premiere by Sarah Ruhl) (Multiple Characters) Piven Theatre workshop, joyce piven, director
A Shayna Maidel (Mama) Bickford Theatre
Hunting Cockroaches (Multiple Characters)Footsteps Theatre Company
12th Night (sir Andrew Aguecheek) Footsteps Theatre Company
The Country Wife (Alithia) Kirkland Theatre
Hellcab (Multiple Characters)Famous Door Theatre Company
Why We Have a Body (Eleanor)Green Highway Theatre
Ourselves Alone (Donna) Ulysses Theatre (Chicago)/Open Fist theatre (new york city)
Dancing at Lughnasa (Kate)Gallery Players
SELECT FILM/TV/INTERNET/RADIO
Then We Got Help! (gerry, series regular), director/creator Julie ann emery, Midlothian Films
Indie Soap Award (Best Show)
Best Supporting Actress Nomination, American Soap Awards
Onion News Network (Marcia Astley) Onion News Network
Bridesburg (Janet) La Vie Productions, Jeff Barry, Director
Stephanie Daley (Featured) RedBone Films, Hilary Brougher, director
Onion Radio News Network (Multiple Characters)
Love, Time and Space Exploration (Serafina) Jacob Eisner, Director
WXRT/WSCR Radio Chicago (Commercial Work)
TRAINING/ SPECIAL SKILLS
National Theatre, London (Scholarship) (acting: Selena Cadell, voice: Patsy Rodenburg,physical theatre/Movement: Complicite)
Millikin University (BA Theatre - Scholarship)
Dialects: British RP, Cockney, Southern, Brooklyn (Bay Ridge), Italian, Russian, Northern Irish, Midwest, Polish, Chicago
Dance: Modern, Jazz, Historical
Voice: Alto
Stage Combat: Hand-to-Hand, Comfortable with Broad Sword
Can drive a stick
Passport
Award-winning Playwright