SUZANNE DEAN - REBELFILM PRODUCTIONS
Actress | Director | Film & Video Producer
AWARDS and LATEST NEWS
LATEST FILM / TV PROJECTS:
THE UNINVITED (In Post Production 2023)
WE WERE MEANT TO (2024 Oscar Qualified, In Competition SUNDANCE 2023)
A MERRY SCARY CHRISTMAS TALE (In Development)
THE GRATEFUL DEAF ( In Development)
PATH OF VINDICATION (In Development)
THE DISAPPEARING GIRL (In Development)
LATEST EVENT / THEATRE / DIGITAL PROJECTS
90's Con Tampa, Hartford (2023) - Thats4Entrtainment
Christmas Con (New Jersey, Kansas 2023) - Thats4Entrtainment
Measure For Measure, Director - Prague Shakespeare Company July 2023
Henry VI Part 1 (Play On Shakespeare adaptation), Director - Prague Shakespeare Company July 2022
The Tempest for our Time, Co-Producer/Co-Director - Global Live Stream Theatre project- Globetrotting Shakespeare 2021
PROJECT AWARD NEWS:
The Creatress - WINNER 2019 Best Feature Comedy at Madrid International Film Festival & Best Lead Actress (Lindy Booth) at Nice International Film Festival
WE WERE MEANT TO (2023 WINNER GRAND PRIX BEST SHORT HollyShorts FF, 2023 WINNER SPECIAL JURY PRIZE BAFTA Student Shorts)
THEATRE PRESS:
[2019 - Operation Ajax by Matthew Spangler & Farshad Farahat] "Director Suzanne Dean crafts a taught, fast-paced, thoroughly entertaining political thriller" - Operation Ajax at Little Fish Theatre in Los Angeles
[2019 - Territories by Betty Shamieh] “Suzanne Dean’s imaginative direction is superbly executed by this fine ensemble” - Territories at Arabian Shakesepare Festival in San Francisco
ACTING AWARDS:
WINNER 2016 StageSceneLA Scenie Outstanding Ensemble (Comedy-Drama Intimate) - Rapture, Blister, Burn (Little Fish Theatre)
WINNER 2010 BroadwayWorld.com Best Actress in a Play -(Martha) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Civic Light Opera Play Series)
WINNER 2011 StageSceneLA Outstanding Perf. Lead Actress Comedy -(Kate) The Taming of the Shrew (Civic Light Opera Play Series)
WINNER 2010 StageSceneLA Best Performance by a Lead Actress Drama -(Martha) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Civic Light Opera Play Series)
WINNER 2009 StageSceneLA Best Performance by a Lead Actress Drama -(Emma) Betrayal (Little Fish Theatre)
NOMINATIONS:
2010 Backstage Garland Best Actress for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
2010 LA Area EMMY as Producer for PSA Westside Food Bank
Suzanne Dean's ACTING career includes 30 years of stage work in the US & UK, as well as in film & television.
Originally from Texas, she attended Hofstra University in New York. With a focus on Shakespeare & Classical performance, she continued her training with the British American Drama Academy/Oxford, Shakespeare & Company, The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, The Old Globe, and The Antaeus Company. She currently splits her time between San Francisco & Los Angeles.
Suzanne is a Founder/Co-Artistic Director of Little Fish Theatre and Co-Artistic Director of Shakespeare by the Sea - a non-profit arts organization dedicated to bringing professional Shakespeare productions to underserved communities in Los Angeles & Orange County.
Favorite roles with Shakespeare by the Sea: Cleopatra in Antony & Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth in Richard III, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Portia in Julius Caesar, Goneril in King Lear, Lady Capulet in R&J, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Kate in Taming of the Shrew, Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Bianca in Othello, Jacques in As You Like It and Prospero in The Tempest.
Leading roles in other LA productions: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Betrayal, Hedda Gabler, Rapture, Blister, Burn, Private Lives, The Taming of the Shrew, The Lady’s Not For Burning, Blithe Spirit, Macbeth, Laundry & Bourbon, Les Parents Terrible, Hay Fever and Present Laughter. Originated Leading roles in the World Premiere Productions: Peg & Garrick; Jesus Come / Jesus Go; The View from Anderson Park.
NYC credits: The Glass Menagerie, Look Back in Anger, Crimes of the Heart, Fifth of July and 1984. Elsewhere in the US: Dear Master, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Bus Stop, The Dresser, All in the Timing.
Acting and Directing in the UK and Europe: With Prague Shakespeare Company (seasons 2016-2023) - Measure For Measure, Henry VI Part 1, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Cardenio, or Double Falsehood, and Henry V; A Couple White Chicks Sitting Around Talking at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Pinter's Mountain Language at BADA/Oxford 1999.
Film/TV: Me,You, Madness; Black Dawn; Silk Stalkings; Power Rangers
As a PRODUCER/ PRODUCTION MANAGER / ACCOUNTANT, Suzanne has over 30 years of experience working in Feature length and Short Films, Episodic Television, Commercials, Music Videos, Corporate Videos, Theatre, and Live Events.
Suzanne started her Media career with Four Square Productions on several of the cult classic Killer Tomatoes films and was part of the original TV production team at Stu Segall Productions responsible for the premiere seasons of Silk Stalkings and Renegade. Additionally, she has produced or coordinated over 150 commercials, industrials, music videos, features, and Made for TV movies.
Professional Affiliations: Member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; SAG/AFTRA; BAFTA; San Francisco Film Society; Theatrical Producers League of Los Angeles; Shakespeare Theatre Association; Women in Film; ARRAY Crew; Primetime.
