Susan Priver

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 Shanleys 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 includesthe 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 Pinters 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 Idiots Delight at the Lillian and Essie in The Great Sebastions also at the Lillian Shes also recently appeared in Ceasar and Cleopatra God of Vengence Tennesee Williams Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let me Listen Sam Shepards Fool for Love Sherwood Schartz The Trial Of Othello and Shanleys Four Dogs and Boneto 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 Whats up Scarlet Susans first feature that she produced cowrote 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 Laemmles Sunset 5