Sue Gisser trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, Steppenwolf West, the Groundlings, iOWest, Second City, Antaeus Academy, Theatricum Botanicum, and holds a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers.
In her professional career, Sue is blessed to seldom work with a director, show, or theatre company only once. She’s recurred on Shameless, Strangers with Candy, and Solved; did multiple spots in campaigns for Burlington Coat Factory, Mercury Insurance, and Cedar Fair; her films include The Activist and In the Air– both by Award-Winning French Director/Composer Cyril Morin; is honored to work with the Brilliant, Boundary-Breaking Writer/Producer/Director/Actor Sandra Cruze over and over again; and has completed over 20 tours, between Open Window Entertainment, and the George Street Playhouse, and the Shoestring Players – with whom she performed at the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
In 2025, Sue’s happy to be back at the Hollywood Fringe Festival directing Cindy in “A Tail of Two Kitties: Paws Across the World.” Sue made her Hollywood Fringe debut in Summer 2023, starring in the World Premiere of Michael Perlmutter’s one woman show Bloodsuckers (a survival guide), directed by the incomparable Ann Noble; and performing concurrently with Feel Your Feet – an innovative game-based, musical improv company, of which Sue is a founding member and game developer. With Bloodsuckers… Sue was thrilled to have found such a fun way to fulfill her dream of doing a “TEDTalk.” That Fall, Sue performed with Ann Noble and Rob Nagle in the world premiere of Suse Sternkopf’s Slow Thunder at Theatre 68.
Sue’s proud of the voiceover work she’s done over the last 5 years with Open Door Playhouse, Bernadette Armstrong’s pandemic-baby Theatre Company. Heralding in the renaissance of Radio Plays, Open Door Playhouse focuses on opening the door for marginalized artists and communities, to find voice and representation on the podcast stage.
Look for Sue in July 2025, co-directing “Midsummer on Magnolia” at LA Connection – it’s an adaptation of Midsummer Night’s Dream, in which she also plays Titania – you will also find her teaching her 6-Week Acting Workshop: “Getting Drunk with Sue” – a mind, body, spiritsss technique for playing drunk characters authentically.
Worlds of thanks to Cindy for the meow-gical opportunity to go on this journey with her, for AK Murtadha for lending his velvet voice to this show, and for Gareth Williams and Pip for making “Cat Hoarders” possible.
Sue is forever grateful to the late, great, Joe Hart – “who’s magic, madness & methods of physical storytelling live forever in everything I do;” to Johnny Clark, VS. Theatre Company, Gareth Williams, DSF Films and D-Street Development Lab – without whom she never would have survived the pandemic, and never would have met the incredible people that fill her artistic-life now. The warmth, inspiration, and support of these theatrical families, and the safe-creative environments they provide to play, and grow with such extraordinary artists, are the gift of a lifetime.
Sue sends a huge shout out to her family: family, blood and chosen, “for being my north star, for seeing me, believing in me, and having my back, for all the ways you show up for me, and love me no matter what, there are no words… thank you. Thank you. You are my heart.”