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Answer: “Give it to Susan! She’ll act anything!”
Question: Is Tovah Feldshuh booked? Jackie Hoffman busy? Nancy Walker still dead?
Susan J. Jacks is a lifelong “non-genue”: first, last, and always a character actress. In a career that has taken her across the globe, she has played everything from Liza Minnelli to televangelists, matchmakers to hookers, grade schoolers to the undead, upstanding wives to falling down drunks. Oh, and although she often plays Jewish mothers, she has an odd tendency to be cast as nuns. LOTS of nuns.
Susan is happy to regale you with tales of the time she understudied Elaine Stritch, and yelled “Cut!” while filming a scene for Spike Lee.
Her “non-genue” talents have been seen Off-Broadway in Forbidden Broadway, Nunsense, Night of the Living Dead! The Musical!, Neurosis, Ionescopade, Bardy Bunch and Popesical (both NYC Fringe winners), NYMF, and NYS&F at Vassar (where she may have slept in Meryl Streep’s old dorm room). She did the national tour of Doctor Dolittle, and has appeared internationally in Europe, Scandinavia, South America and Singapore. Regionally, Susan understudied Elaine Stritch in Full Monty at Papermill Playhouse (OMG the stories!), and has also appeared at Goodspeed, Cincinnati Playhouse, Arkansas Rep, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Geva, Cape Playhouse, Human Race Theatre, Gateway, Walnut Street, and La Mirada.
Her film appearances include Spike Lee’s Crooklyn and The Chaperone (as another nun). On TV, she has appeared in multiple episodes of ABC’s What Would You Do?, mostly as annoying mothers.
Susan's proudest role is that of “Wifey” to her “Fuzzband”, Nick Ruggeri.
Question: Is Tovah Feldshuh booked? Jackie Hoffman busy? Nancy Walker still dead?
Susan J. Jacks is a lifelong “non-genue”: first, last, and always a character actress. In a career that has taken her across the globe, she has played everything from Liza Minnelli to televangelists, matchmakers to hookers, grade schoolers to the undead, upstanding wives to falling down drunks. Oh, and although she often plays Jewish mothers, she has an odd tendency to be cast as nuns. LOTS of nuns.
Susan is happy to regale you with tales of the time she understudied Elaine Stritch, and yelled “Cut!” while filming a scene for Spike Lee.
Her “non-genue” talents have been seen Off-Broadway in Forbidden Broadway, Nunsense, Night of the Living Dead! The Musical!, Neurosis, Ionescopade, Bardy Bunch and Popesical (both NYC Fringe winners), NYMF, and NYS&F at Vassar (where she may have slept in Meryl Streep’s old dorm room). She did the national tour of Doctor Dolittle, and has appeared internationally in Europe, Scandinavia, South America and Singapore. Regionally, Susan understudied Elaine Stritch in Full Monty at Papermill Playhouse (OMG the stories!), and has also appeared at Goodspeed, Cincinnati Playhouse, Arkansas Rep, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Geva, Cape Playhouse, Human Race Theatre, Gateway, Walnut Street, and La Mirada.
Her film appearances include Spike Lee’s Crooklyn and The Chaperone (as another nun). On TV, she has appeared in multiple episodes of ABC’s What Would You Do?, mostly as annoying mothers.
Susan's proudest role is that of “Wifey” to her “Fuzzband”, Nick Ruggeri.