Susie Burpee (She/Her)

Traversing both dance and theatre in Canada for the past 25 years, Susie Burpee is a performer, creator, teacher, and mother to two young children. She danced for many years with Dancemakers, Le Groupe Dance Lab, and Tedd Robinson (10 Gates Dancing) and recently with Hanna Kiel (Human Body Expression), Alyssa Martin (Rock Bottom Movement) and Linnea Swan. Augmenting her dance training with studies in Bouffon and character work, Susie has collaborated on projects with Crow’s Theatre, Dusk Dances, Nightwood Theatre, and Soundstreams. Her work has received Dora Mavor Moore Awards for both Outstanding Choreography and Performance and she is a recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award for Dance. Susie is guest faculty at many post-secondary dance programs across the country, and in 2020, she completed a Master of Arts in Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at The University of Toronto. She is originally from rural Manitoba, a second-generation settler on the original lands of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. Based in Tkaronto/Toronto since 2001, Susie is Producer of Theatre Direct’s Balancing Act, a national platform to support caregivers in the performing arts.