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Susannah Laing

Height 5’5” 
Colour of eyes Hazel 
Colour of hair Brown
Singing voice Mezzo soprano

Parts played at Guildhall School
Kalonike in Lysistrata (dir: Owen Horsley)
Mrs Squeers in Nicholas Nickleby Part One (dir: Joseph Blatchley)
Karolka in Jenufa (dir: Sue Lefton)
...think only this of me... (Devised piece, dir: Christian Burgess)
Maggie/Instructress in The Women (dir: Wyn Jones)
Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra (dir: Owen Horsley)
Lily in A Man of No Importance (dir: Adam Penfold)
Clytemnestra in Agamemnon (dir: Patsy Rodenburg)
Clara in The False Count (dir: Steven Baker)
Financial Investor in The Permanent Way (dir: Nadia Fall)
Olga in Three Sisters (dir: Joseph Blatchley)
Corinne in The Country (dir: Ed Dick)

Professional experience
Nurse in Fool (dir: Jim Menza), Mom in The Daddy Machine (dir: Fracaswell Hyman, Celebration Theater, Los Angeles), USGA national commercial (dir: Errol Morris, USA), Mirin in Passing Places (dir: Stuart Patton, Glasgow Comedy Festival), Tammy in Green Apple (USC 24 hour Film Festival)

Other experience
BA Hons in Media and Film (San Francisco), played on professional golf circuit in USA, toured Asia and Europe, workshop on musicals with Augusto Humet at Prima del Teatro, Meisner Technique at David Kagen School of Film (LA), Cold Reading Mastery class with Zora Dehorter and Soap Study with Mark Teschner at TVI Studios (LA), TV workshops with Ian D Fleming and Peter Cregeen, radio production of The Diary of Samuel Pepys (dir: Jane Morgan)

Skills
Driving licence, Stage Combat Proficiency Certificate (silver), professional golfer, field hockey (national level), strong swimmer, strong skier, plays tennis,
gymnastics, piano (grade 5), violin, dance, horse riding

Native Accent Scottish

Dialects
RP, Heightened RP, American (General, New York, Southern), Irish, Trans Atlantic

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