Over the course of her career, she has directed or performed in most every style and genre of theatre. Her directing credits include Riders to the Sea (opera), The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, A Flea in Her Ear, Big Love, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Threepenny Opera, Company, Urinetown, The Secret Garden, The Pirates of Penzance, Lock Up Your Daughters, The Country Wife, Machinal, How I Learned to Drive, The King Stag, and Jose Rivera’s Marisol among many others. She has also directed several “Theatre for Social Change” productions, devising works that deal with addiction, veterans’ issues, women’s issues and censorship. She has also developed numerous new plays and has worked as a dramaturge for regional theatre. Her directing work has received high honors from The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and the New England Theatre Conference.

In addition to directing, Suzanne has worked as a professional dramaturge, choreographer, fight choreographer, speech and dialect coach, singing coach and music director.

Along with conservatory training, Suzanne holds an undergraduate degree in Music-Classical Voice and Conducting, as well as Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Theatre Arts from the University of Oregon.

As an actor, Suzanne has performed in numerous plays and musicals on the West Coast and in the Boston area, including Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Kate in Old Times, Blanche in Brighton Beach Memoirs, Jessie in “Night Mother, Susanna in the opera The Marriage of Figaro, Elizabeth in Laundry and Bourbon and Queen Aggravain in Once Upon a Mattress. In 2003, she was given her university’s annual award for excellence in teaching.

Currently, Suzanne is thrilled to be able to oversee a new company dedicated to imagining, creating and presenting theatrical works that focus on contemporary social issues.

Kathleen was born and raised in New York City and has lived and worked in various cities in the U.S. and abroad. She also taught adult education programs that focused on career education and English as a Second Language to immigrant populations in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

As a founding member of Theatre Nouveau, she appeared in the company’s first two productions. In addition, she works on marketing, outreach and other tasks for the new company.

As a singer and actor residing in Belfast, Kathleen’s performing career includes years of singing jazz and cabaret as a soloist with bands, in theater groups and in choral ensembles. As a singer, Kathleen has a love for novelty songs and has produced her own cabaret shows in the Washington, D.C. area and, in November 2023, her original cabaret act, “Some Women,” in Belfast, Maine, as a fundraiser for Theatre Nouveau.