SUZI TAKAHASHI

Suzi is an Amerasian director, actor, producer, and teacher who holds a BA in Theater from Barnard College, an MA in Performance Studies from NYU, and has trained with the SITI Company. Suzi is co-founder of the multicultural performance ensemble Ex.Pgirl with whom she has performed and created Ablution (2002), Waving Hello(2004), 10 Plates(2007), and Paris Syndrome (2009).

In her career as a performer, Suzi worked for artists like Richard Foreman, Richard Schechner, Darko Tresnjak, Taylor Mac, Emma Griffin, Phil Soltanoff, Nicholas Martin, James Naughton, Tony Phelan, and Kristin Marting. She spent three seasons at the Williamstown Theater festival as a member of their non-equity company (1996-1998,) and was a company member of the No-Pants Theatre from 1996-2002. Favorite acting credits include:Dead End, Dreading Thekla, The Matchmaker, Filumena, The Blue Demon (Williamstown Theater Festival), to whom it may concern(BITEF, Serbia,) Strange Attractors (Mass MoCA), Red Tide Blooming (P.S.122), and Sweeney Todd, Man of La Mancha,Private Lives, and Rough Crossing at the Bristol Valley Theater. Suzi toured nationally in the musical South Pacific, and was a reoccurring under-five prison guard on As the World Turns from 1996-97.

In 2000, Suzi began to pursue a directing career. Since that time, directing credits include: Lee/gendary by Derek Nguyen and Soomi Kim at the National Asian American Theater Festival (Samuel Beckett) and HERE Arts Center, St. George Hotel by Chiori Miyagawa at the Connelly Theater, Dictee at Dance New Amsterdam and New Steps, FTM at the International Transgendered Theater Festival and the Pyramid Club, After Dinner and Mommy and Daddy are Doing Dirty Things at Manhattan Theater Source, and The Mousetrap and The Unexpected Guest at the Bristol Valley Theater.

Currently, Suzi is an Emerging Artist Fellow in Directing at New York Theater Workshop. Suzi has done advanced course work in Theater History at the Graduate Center, and is published in The African American National Biography. She has taught in the theater departments of Swarthmore College, Hunter College, The City College of New York, and Marymount Manhattan.

Suzi was awarded "Outstanding Director" for her work with Lee/Gendary at the New York Innovative Theatre Awards in 2009.

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