Sue Gisser
Actor
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; and she 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.
Summer 2023 finds Sue making her Hollywood Fringe Festival debut, starring in the World Premiere of Michael Perlmutter’s one woman show Bloodsuckers (a survival guide) and performing concurrently with Feel Your Feet – an innovative game-based, musical improv company, of which she is a founding member and game developer. With Bloodsuckers… Sue’s thrilled to have found such a fun way to fulfill her dream of doing a “TEDTalk.” She’s honored and delighted to be part of the Theatre Ghosts Project, to bring Izzy to life, to work with the endlessly inventive Michael Perlmutter, and play with the incomparable Ann Noble. This Fall, Sue’s over the moon to be performing with Ann again, this time acting side-by-side in the world premiere of Suse Sternkopf’s Slow Thunderat Theatre 68.
Sue’s extra proud of the voiceover work she’s done over the last 3 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.
Sue’s forever grateful to Johnny Clark, VS. Theatre Company, Gareth Williams, and the Station House Writers Room at Detroit Street Films – without whom she never would have survived the pandemic, and never would have met Michael Perlmutter, Ann Noble, and Jeffrey Johnson, her teammates in the Theatre Ghosts Project. 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.”
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