Suzi Takahashi

Suzi Takahashi is an actor, director, and theater maker. As an actor, she’s worked with directors like Richard Foreman, Richard Schechner, Tom Oppenheim, Kristin Marting, and Phil Soltanoff. Recently, she was a part of Taylor Mac’s, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York City. As a director, Suzi won the 2009 Innovative Theatre Award for Best Director. She has been a Directing Fellow at The New York Theatre Workshop, and a HARP Artists-in-Residence at the HERE. As a theater maker she has collaboratively created 15 original works. From 2002-10 she was the co-Artistic Director of Ex,pgirl, an intercultural women’s theatre troupe. Most recently, her collaboration, Chang(e), was presented by Boom Arts in Portland, Oregon. Suzi teaches movement and devising at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in NYC. Suzi trained with the SITI. She holds an MA in Performance Studies from NYU, and an MFA in Directing from Southampton Arts.