 Suzi Myers, Co-Artistic Director, Dancer
A native New Yorker, Suzi began her dance career with the Windemere Ballet Theatre in
Queens. Her passion for dance lead her to study many international folk dance styles,
including Irish Step, Scottish Highland, Middle Eastern, and African. An actor as well,
she studied drama at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and improvisational comedy at
Chicago City Limits in New York City. As a member of AllNations Dance Company, she
traveled to such exotic locations as Central and South America, Eastern Europe, China
and Brooklyn sharing a message of global understanding through the arts. She has
performed in many regional musicals and plays, including Brigadoon, Damn Yankees,
Over the River and Through the Woods (at the Emelin Theatre and Queens Theatre in
the Park), and Children Of... the first full-length production to beperformed at the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. You may also catch
her on Law and Order, Sex and the City, Ed, and numerous other films and television
shows. At present she is joyfully conducting movement and music workshops for
Hospital Audiences, Inc., bringing the arts to adults with mental illness. She teaches
acting and improv for the SUNY Purchase Youth Theatre Program,and has stage
managed and worked backstage at such Off-Broadway theatres as the Ensemble Studio
Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club. She has choreographed a number of regional
theatre productions, and has been a guest teacher for companies throughout New
York City. She has written, produced and performed sketch comedy, and currently
dances with Pat Cannon's Foot and Fiddle Dance Company.
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