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ARTISTIC STATEMENT
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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.
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"Never have I ever been more engaged, present, and energized as I was in Susan’s class. She is electrifying with her energy.”
Liv, participant 2025
"Susan Bertoia is, indeed, the best.
Fantastic at what she does. Great teacher and artist. One of a kind!"
Joan MacLean, Moscrop Drama, Burnaby VPA, BMus BFA BEd 2026
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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, commedia dell'arte 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:
Upcoming workshop:
MASK IN PERORMANCE
Early 2027
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DONNE ALL'IMPROVVISA: MASK & IDENTITY
Women in Commedia dell'Arte Conference
December 2-6 2026
Arezzo, Italy
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THE BERTOIA METHOD
facilitator & teacher
online & in-person devised theatre workshops
LEARN MORE HERE
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WORKSHOPS
FOR PERFORMERS AND ALL THOSE CURIOUS ABOUT THEATRE MAKING
COMMEDIA, MASK MAKING, DEVISING...
CONTACT ME: HERE
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THE RAW DIARIES
Interview by Jay Hamburger of Co-op Radio
LISTEN HERE
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PANORAM ITALIA MAGAZINE
"Transforming life's moments into living art on stage" (Anna Foschi, 2022)
READ ARTICLE HERE
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