Susan-Jane Harrison
Actor, Playwright, Voice & Performance Coach
I am an Actor, Playwright and Coach and I delight in these expressions of art in equal measure! To each modality I bring specificity, a sense of play, and a flexible skill set. To learn more about my ethos and experience, as well as details of one-on-one coaching, please explore further. Thank you for visiting!
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Photo and hoodie design by Amanda Billing
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On the Breath
The power of voice in the world!
Listen in to intimate conversations about how people use their voices in the world. Hosted by voice coach, actor and playwright SJ Harrison.
ABOUT
Susan-Jane Harrison is a British American playwright and performer who trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, with a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of California at Davis. Unusual collaborations in Harrison’s artistic work have allowed her to develop across disciplines.
A member of VASTA (Voice and Speech Trainers Association), Susan-Jane has an international voice and performance practice coaching actors and business professionals. She specializes in working with ‘third culture’ and multilingual clients, and has been placed in the ‘Top 1% of Voice and Public Speaking Coaches’ in the USA by Yahoo! Global. Her work on Voice and Performance has been published in Academic journals in the UK and in Turkey.
Harrison’s work as performer and playwright has been seen in both the UK, USA & NZ. She has worked in the UK, most notably with BBC Radio, A&BC Theatre Co, RADA and the Royal National. In the USA, with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Aurora Theatre Company, Woman’s Will, ACT, California Shakespeare Company and A Traveling Jewish Theater. She is a Brady Fellow at 3Girls Theatre in San Francisco in the 2021-2023 Cohort for development of her play, “Today I Live” and a new play, “Touched”.
Check out her media page and her podcast!
Podcast Interview with Susan-Jane: All Your Favorite Music is (Probably)... with Host Mark Montgomery French
In this episode, Mark shares his incredible knowledge and humor about music created against the artist’s will, with SJ chiming in about Artist’s process!
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Against the backdrop of backstage banter, this video is about dressing in authentic Elizabethan costume for the role of Gertrude in Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Pop Up Globe Theatre, Auckland NZ in 2019. Designs by Costumer Hannah Lobelson. With dresser extraordinaire Imogen Rhodes. Stills feature Adrian Hooke as Hamlet and Max Loban as Claudius. With musicians Louie McGlashan and Oscar West. Costumes at the Pop Up Globe are largely authentic, a minor concession in this case being hook and eye attachment for the bodice on one side. The wig is real hair. Even at arms length distance in broad daylight, the lace attaching the hair to the face wasn’t noticeable, giving the impression that the hair was my own.
