Susan Angelo Studio

Lolita Davidovitch
Law & Order: Organized Crime

"This brilliant, high energy workshop consists of exercises physicalizing the text, facilitating both its discovery and authentic ownership of it. It's a thrilling and extremely productive approach to Shakespeare's language."      

Seta Wainiqolo
Yale Drama School

“Susan’s incredible intuitiveness and passion for Shakespeare, and her remarkable gift of teaching, not only quelled a lot of my fears in approaching the text, but also nurtured in me a deeper love and exhilarating freedom in both the reading and performance of his work.  Susan introduced me to Shakespeare like no other teacher could and I am forever indebted to her.” 

Chris Brown
American Repertory Theatre

"I worked with Susan for the first time right before my grad school auditions. She went above and beyond to help me find the right monologues...I received 17 callbacks from different schools and chose ART. I will always coach with Susan for auditions!"

Patricia Fa' asua
Yale Drama School

“I had the honor of working with Susan as my director at Shakespeare Orange County in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and as a coach for my grad school audition... she was the first person who made Shakespeare approachable and exciting for me.  My intimidation was transformed into curiosity for uncovering more!"

Jeff LeBeau
The Gary Plays,
Years to the Day

“... So thorough, and comprehensive...her breadth of knowledge is vast, her passion contagious, her sense of humor a delight,  and her commitment to help ignite and guide each actor is nothing less than inspiring!”

Raul Bencomo
Julius Caesar,  
NY Shakespeare in the Park 

“Susan teaches the importance of knowing exactly what you’re saying with classical text.  She helps you build the circumstances of the play with extreme specificity.  Finally, she lets you play freely.  She is a rhetorical genius and an actor’s best friend.”

Emelie O'Hara
Utah Shakespeare  

“Susan opened up new worlds for me.  She unlocked the secrets that had kept me intimidated by classical works and helped me find greater depth as an actor and as a person.” 

T'ai Hartley
Bristol Old Vic

"I absolutely love working with Susan. She's the kind of empathetic teacher you can really relax around, and she has mastered both sides of the coin when it comes to Shakespeare: Intellect and creativity, precision and freedom, form and content. With her help on my monologue, I got accepted into both Bristol Old Vic and LAMDA, with special remarks: "That's exactly how Iago should be done." 

Kaira Campos
ACDA, NYC

“Susan’s kindness and support was what I needed to audition for drama school. She was very informative, guiding me in the right direction to be confident with my monologues, and showed me that I had a voice that needed to be heard."  

Vito D'Ambrosio
The Flash

"Susan is an amazing acting teacher, blending her repertoire as a Shakespearean scholar, actor, and theatre director...all with grace, humor, and supportive critiques. I’ve learned techniques that have helped me in all mediums.”

Kathleen Dunn Muzingo
Professor of Voice/Movement at USC

"This class is for professional actors, directors, teachers and students of Shakespeare. Susan combines the craft and tools of Shakespeare while at the same time unearthing the humanity of character. It is rare that a gifted artist is also a insightful teacher, but Susan is one of those jewels."

Derek Chariton
Andy Warhols' Tomato
Pacific Resident Theatre

"I’ve taken a lot of classical theater classes but the techniques taught in this class are the ones I use to warmup every time I’m about to step on stage. Susan Angelo is a Shakespearean witch who will not only increase your lung capacity beyond what you thought possible, but will also sharpen your mind and diction to an Elizabethan point capable of weaving through any of the Bard’s rhetoric with understanding and skill."

Carmen Flood
Long Slow Exhale

“Susan encourages me to take risks by creating an environment that is safe and collaborative. Her passion for the craft is infectious….under her guidance I have learned one of the most invaluable tools an artist can have: the ability to take ownership of one’s work.”

Judy Durkin
Harvard University 

“Studying with Susan, I learned to feel grounded, while gaining a strong foundation in rhetoric, prosody, characterization through movement and theatrical history of Shakespeare....her approach is rare." 

Taryn Pearce
De Paul University

“...From our first meeting, I could feel her authentic desire to see me succeed. Susan is a present, mindful and compassionate coach. Without her guidance, I would not have felt as ready, or as confident, to audition for graduate schools.”

Daniel Ramirez
Romeo & Juliet

Susan is an anchor.... an expert excavator of classical text.  She understands the importance of being both grounded in the text, yet opened up and made larger by it. She opens pathways to elusive subtleties, truths, beauties and human touches.  Working with Susan, as in sonnet 116, one feels “guided by a star”.

Debi Tinsley
Voice over actress

"I hadn't had a classical audition in a while, so Iasked Susan to help me polish up a piece I had worked on a few years back. She gave me just the right tweaks to make everything crystal clear and give it some more 'umph'. Three days later, I booked the play!" 

Andrea Iaia
Carnera: The Walking Mountain

"Having done Shakespeare in my country in Italy, I needed someone here in LA  to give me a solid, grounded technique that would help me perform in English. Thanks to Susan, the rhetoric pointed me to the operative words, and the scansion revealed the rhythm of the speeches. Before the class had ended, I got cast in a Shakespeare play!"