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\"\"SUSAN LEHMAN (1940-2025)<\/strong> became a member of Actors Equity in 1961. She is also a member of SAG-AFTRA. She has been working in the performing arts since her early childhood.<\/p>\n

Her first Broadway debut was in 1962 in I Can Get It For You Wholesale<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0as part of the ensemble, and most notably as an understudy for Barbra Streisand and Bambi Linn. Other Broadway credits include: The Prisoner of Second Avenue<\/i><\/b>\u00a0and Show Me Where The Good Times Are<\/strong><\/em>.<\/em>\u00a0Susan toured all over the East playing Tzeitel in the First National Company production of Fiddler On The Roof<\/strong><\/em>. She played the role of Mrs. McIllehenny in City Center Encores! production of 70 Girls 70<\/strong><\/em>. She worked in two Off-Broadway Drama Desk nominated plays: Falling<\/strong><\/em> (2012) and Transport Group\u2019s\u00a0I Remember\u00a0Mama<\/strong><\/em> (2014). Susan played the role of Maude in the Off-Broadway Musical, Harold & Maude<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Leads and supporting roles in over 40 professional plays\/musicals include: Fanny in Funny Girl<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0Babe in The Pajama Game<\/strong><\/em>, Annie in Annie Get Your Gun<\/strong><\/em>, Carrie in Carousel<\/strong><\/em>, Marian in The Music Man<\/strong><\/em>, Winnifred in Once Upon A Mattress<\/strong><\/em>, Mammy Yokum in Li’l Abner<\/strong><\/em>, Smitty in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying<\/strong><\/em>, Irma in Irma La Douce<\/strong><\/em>, Reno in Anything Goes<\/strong><\/em>, Meg in Brigadoon<\/strong>,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>Jack\u2019s Mum in Into The Woods<\/strong><\/em>. She also sang and danced in many revues and cabarets all over the USA.<\/p>\n

Roles on television soap operas include:\u00a0All My Children<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0Ryan’s Hope<\/strong>,<\/em> and As The World Turns<\/strong>. <\/em>She played a \u201cgentle folk\u201d senior dancer in Disney\u2019s Enchanted<\/strong><\/em>, and also\u00a0appeared on the 2008 Academy Awards in the performance for Enchanted<\/strong><\/em>‘s\u00a0nominated song, \u201cThat\u2019s How You Know.”<\/p>\n

Susan directed projects in NYC for Circle Reparatory<\/strong><\/em>, The Woman\u2019s Project<\/strong><\/em>, and\u00a0Women\u2019s Interart<\/em>. She also directed for the\u00a0Allenberry Playhouse<\/strong><\/em> in Pennsylvania and\u00a0Capital Repertory<\/strong><\/em> in Albany, New York.<\/p>\n

She trained to direct with Mike Nichols and Herbert Berghof, and trained\/directed on All My Children<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(ABC) and\u00a0Texas\u00a0<\/i><\/b>(NBC). She trained in acting with Alvina Krause, Uta Hagen, and Austin Pendleton.<\/p>\n

Susan holds a BS in Theater from Northwestern University. Throughout the years, Susan has worked various “bread and butter jobs,” her favorite being a professional Broadway usher where she gets paid to see a show and tell people where to go.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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