ARTISTIC STATEMENT
As a theatre artist, director, devisor, actor and teacher with over 30 years experience, my training and practice lies in physical transformation. Applied not only to theatre, my work urges and pushes the creative spirit in all who witness, participate and engage. The performer is both pedestrian and poetic as their body transforms into varying aspects of the human condition. Body, voice and imagination are the only tools the performer has to engage and are the most essential tools a performer has to engage with the audience.
ABOUT
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Susan Bertoia is a professional theatre artist, performer, director, devisor, writer, drama teacher, and mom to three amazing humans. Susan’s invigorating artistic style, with specialization in physical theatre and mask performance, make her a well sought-out teaching artist and performer throughout Canada. Her work explores transposing the poetry of life into the comedic and dramatic moments for the stage. Susan's artistic leadership has been described as engaging, encouraging and disarming.
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UPCOMING , RECENT & ONGOING PROJECTS:
SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS (REMIX)
Director/Adjunct Professor with
UBC's 3rd Year BFA Acting Ensemble
THEATRE AT UBC
Vancouver, UBC Dorothy Somerset Studio
October 23-26, 7:30pm
PROXIMITY: the space between us
Co-Director/Co-Devisor
THEATRE TERRIFIC
Vancouver FRINGE FESTIVAL (BYOV)
FIRE NEVER DIES: THE TINA MODOTTI PROJECT
Actor
THE ELECTRIC COMPANY
Postponed Premiere 2025. Stay tuned!
WORKSHOPS
FOR PERFORMERS AND ALL THOSE CURIOUS ABOUT THEATRE MAKING
LIKE: COMMEDIA, MASK MAKING, DEVISING...
CONTACT ME: HERE
THE RAW DIARIES
Interview by Jay Hamburger of Co-op Radio
LISTEN HERE
PANORAM ITALIA MAGAZINE
"Transforming life's moments into living art on stage" (Anna Foschi, 2022)
READ ARTICLE HERE
THE BERTOIA METHOD OF DEVISING
facilitator & teacher for on-going
online & in-person devised theatre workshops
LEARN MORE HERE
Selma Lagerlöf’s The Löwensköld Ring
(Premiere Presentation, STAY TUNED
Creative Director/Director
LITTLE MOUNTAIN LION PRODUCTIONS
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