SUSAN APPEL

Susan Appel is a professional Equity actress, director and teacher. As an actress, Ms. Appel spent 8 years based in New York City, playing lead roles in regional theatres and Shakespeare Festivals across the country. Favorite roles include Isabella in Measure for Measure (Intiman Theatre), Helena in All’s Well That Ends Well (Hartford Stage Company), Rosalind As You Like It (Syracuse Stage), Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker (GeVa Theatre), Varya in The Cherry Orchard (Indiana Repertory Theatre), and Chrissie in Dancing at Lughnasa (Alliance Theater Company). As a director, Ms. Appel was an affiliated artist with New Georges, an Obie award winning theatre collective dedicated to emerging women artists. Other New York directing credits include The International Fringe Festival and The New Jersey Shakespeare Festival. At Syracuse University, Ms. Appel directed several productions: Blue Window, Measure For Measure, Stop Kiss, and a full production of Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute. In addition, for two consecutive years she directed the Syracuse University Presentation to the Profession in New York City, a showcase of BFA acting students for agents, casting directors, and producers of theatre, film, and television.

 As a teacher, she taught in three acting conservatories in Manhattan: Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting, CAP 21 and the Atlantic Theatre Company. Also while in New York, Ms. Appel held private master classes in Acting Shakespeare for professionals and students, and she ran a private business providing audition coaching for professionals working on Broadway and in film and television. Ms. Appel spent four years as an Assistant Professor of Acting in the BFA and MFA programs at Syracuse University.

 Ms. Apple now lives with her husband and son in Santa Maria, CA where she teaches acting at PCPA.

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