Susanna Fournier

Biography

Susanna Fournier is an award-winning Canadian theatre-maker, actor, and performance educator. Her work straddles acting and creating in television, film, and stage. She is known in Canadian theatre for her formally provocative performance texts and interdisciplinary productions. Her work is rowdy, joyous, contentious, queer, and often called “impossible”. In 2018/19, Susanna’s company, PARADIGM productions, produced her critically acclaimed trilogy, The Empire, across three Toronto venues, as a radio-drama podcast series online, and as a complete reader edition published through Playwrights Canada Press. On screen acting credits include Locke and Key, Titans, Transplant, SEE, 12 Monkeys, X-Men, Bomb Girls, and three seasons of Being Human. Her theatre-making has been seen at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Canadian Stage, Luminato, Aki Studio, Theatre Centre, as well as in London UK, Munich, and Berlin. Susanna is a two-time nominee for the KM Hunter Award for theatre artist of the year. Her writing has been featured online with The Puritan, Intermission Magazine, The Spiderweb Show, and SchlossPost. In 2022, Susanna became the Artistic Director of Armstrong Acting Studios, where she shapes performance pedagogy and curriculum, and coaches actors through mindful, empowered, and body-centric approaches to on screen performance. She is also a guest artist and instructor at Etobicoke School of the Arts and Cawthra Park Secondary School. When she isn't telling stories she's rock climbing, meditating, and hanging out with cats. Visit her website to learn more.