Susanne McDonald

For the past twelve years, Susanne has been on stage and screen up and down the East Coast. She began her theatre career with Charleston Stage in 2009 as Scout in "To Kill a Mockingbird," which her family has not stopped bragging about since. Although she has a passion for theatre, it was films, television, and weekly Blockbuster visits as a kid that made her want to be an actor. (She often still skips out of movie theatres with childish delight) For the past six years, Susanne has been working in film. She will never forget her very first professional audition with Slate Casting in Boston. The House Guest, her first short film and first lead in a film, won several awards and she was even nominated for Best Actress in the SouthEast Regional Film Festival. Most recently, she has been working closely with Jen Rudolph, Amanda Brooke Lerner, Natalie Roy and the 2% Collective to dial in her pitch perfect packaging. She earned her BFA in Contemporary Theatre from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee in 2020 where she graduated from a theatre program straight into a global pandemic. While attending the Boston Conservatory, she was able to devise countless theatrical performances with her beloved ensemble known as Anti-Play. They also toured their production of "The Bald Soprano" to the Orlando Fringe Mini Winter Festival and to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. In 2016 she graduated from the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities in Drama following in the footsteps of her favorite South Carolina actor, Nicole Beharie. Despite the pandemic, Susanne was able to act in four commercials, including two uplifting international bandage commercials as well as a South Carolina state-wide commercial advocating for the Covid-19 vaccination. In 2019, Susanne was able to study Shakespeare at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts where she earned a diploma in Classical Acting where she fell in love with London. She often dreams about her favorite British drink, a bramble, and the Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptation of Richard III. Now located in New York City and dying to travel.