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Susan is the founder and director of Essential Theatre, a nationally-recognized, multicultural ensemble serving audiences across Arizona and the United States. Now in its twenty-first season, Essential Theatre conducts interactive, improvisational performances and workshops that that are for and about the lives of the communities it serves.

Essential Theatre's primary art form is Playback Theatre, an improvisational theatre performance format in which audience members tell stories from their lives and watch them brought to artistic life through music, movement, and theatre. Playback Theatre performances reflect the diversity of human experience and celebrate our common humanity.

Essential Theatre offers performances, workshops, and residencies in Arizona and across the country. Inner city and rural audiences include: incarcerated and at-risk youth; homeless adults and children; domestic violence survivors; public school children and educators. Organizational clients include corporations, government agencies, conferences, small businesses, schools and social service agencies.

For additional information and booking, please contact Susan at
essentialtheatre@cox.net