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:
Selma Lagerlöf’s The Löwensköld Ring
(Workshop Presentation)
Creative Director/Director
LITTLE MOUNTAIN LION PRODUCTIONS
Presented at ANNEX Theatre, 823 Seymour St., Vancouver BC,
Saturday October 28th, doors 6:30, presentation 7pm, community talkback to follow.
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FOR THE LOVE OF CITRUS: COMMEDIA SHOW 2023
Director / Adjunct Prof
UBC COMMEDIA SHOWCASE
Dorothy Somerset Studio, October 25-28 7:30
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STORIES FROM A SUITCASE
Creative Director/Director
BURNABY SUMMER THEATRE PROGRAM
Toured Parks in Burnaby August 1-13
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POSTPONED: COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE INTENSIVE 2023
FOR PERFORMERS AND ALL THOSE CURIOUS ABOUT COMMEDIA
ITALIAN CULTURAL CENTRE, VANCOUVER BC
MORE INFO: 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
PROJECT CHAIR
facilitator & teacher for on-going
online & in-person devised theatre workshops
LEARN MORE HERE
(Workshop Presentation)
Creative Director/Director
LITTLE MOUNTAIN LION PRODUCTIONS
Presented at ANNEX Theatre, 823 Seymour St., Vancouver BC,
Saturday October 28th, doors 6:30, presentation 7pm, community talkback to follow.
MORE INFO
FOR THE LOVE OF CITRUS: COMMEDIA SHOW 2023
Director / Adjunct Prof
UBC COMMEDIA SHOWCASE
Dorothy Somerset Studio, October 25-28 7:30
MORE INFO
STORIES FROM A SUITCASE
Creative Director/Director
BURNABY SUMMER THEATRE PROGRAM
Toured Parks in Burnaby August 1-13
MORE INFO
POSTPONED: COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE INTENSIVE 2023
FOR PERFORMERS AND ALL THOSE CURIOUS ABOUT COMMEDIA
ITALIAN CULTURAL CENTRE, VANCOUVER BC
MORE INFO: 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
PROJECT CHAIR
facilitator & teacher for on-going
online & in-person devised theatre workshops
LEARN MORE HERE