Suzanne Kennedy(IV)

For as long as Suzanne can remember, she has been conceiving, producing, acting and performing. Starting when she was 6, Suzanne gathered all the neighborhood kids and put on a parade for her cousin from Maryland who came to Texas for a visit. Suzanne started piano lessons in fourth grade and played in a piano concerto contest at the tender age of 11. High school: she lettered in physics and biology, auditioned for and became a Prancer (one of sixteen girls on the drill team), and landed the supporting role in the musical, Take It Easy, her senior year. At Texas Tech University, Suzanne immersed herself in music, dance and theater, and upon graduation, worked as a dancer in her first summer stock production, Beyond the Sundown, an outdoor drama on the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation outside of Livingston, Texas. The actors lived in cabins on the reservation -- 17 miles from the nearest town -- and in the middle of the second night, Suzanne awoke to the drums and chanting of a tribal dance just outside her window to drive away any "evil spirits" the actors might have brought with them.

The following January, Suzanne moved to New York and began to work extensively in New York theater: stock, dinner, regional and Off-Broadway. She had the good fortune to perform in some original plays under the auspices of Playwrights Horizons and Ensemble Studio Theatre. One of the highlights was being invited by Curt Dempster (Ensemble Studio Theatre) to attend a Horton Foote workshop in Tannersville, New York. The actors had access to four of Horton's new plays that were works-in-progress, as well as doing staged readings from all of his other works. Horton joined the actors midweek and it was thrilling, as well as educational, for Suzanne to meet and talk with him. She corresponded with him for many years after that. In addition, Suzanne added on a "new hat" by producing, as well as acting, in two original one-act plays off off Broadway.

Suzanne moved to Los Angeles and continued creating her own opportunities by producing and acting in Lisa Maria-Radano's Da me la mano in Hollywood. She then produced, shot, acted in, and edited the video docudrama, Welcome to Reality. Suzanne booked acting jobs on television series including Just Shoot Me, and a co-star on Dark Skies - l'impossible vérité (1996).

Suzanne met Tom Todoroff in the spring of 2013, moved back to New York in September of 2014 to attend Tom's 2 year Acting Conservatory. Suzanne is one of the stars of the wacky comedy webisode TAPE - created by two of her Conservatory classmates - which premiered November 24, 2017. Ms. Kennedy performed the role of Cleopatra in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, produced by Bard City and performed at Classic Stage Company in New York, NY in March 2018.