Actor
Susan-Jane Harrison trained as an actor at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. With an MFA from the University of California at Davis, Harrison has worked in London and throughout the UK, New Zealand, NYC, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Most notably, she has worked with The National Theatre, BBC Radio, and A&BC Theatre Co (UK). In the USA with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Aurora Theatre Company, Woman’s Will, ACT, California Shakespeare Company and A Traveling Jewish Theater. She performed her solo show “Possession” for the 2014 United Solo Festival in NYC. She is a member of The Pop-Up Globe acting company for the 2018-2019 season. Also known as SJ Harrison, SJ is British-American, currently based in San Francisco.
Susan-Jane has co-directed, danced and choreographed with Bollywood Groove (Chicago), and been a member of the Contemporary Dance Troupe Akat. Inter-disciplinary collaboration in her professional life has nourished her particular flexibility of style: Susan-Jane possesses sensitivity to diverse texts and narratives , as well as being a physically adept and expressive performer.
with Nican Robinson in “Hunting Love” (photo by Eric Gillet)
with Max Loban in “Hamlet”, Courtesy of The Pop-Up Globe
On the Toilet in “Possession” (photo by John Kokoska)
with Bobby August & Lui-Hui Chua in “Following the Wrong God Home” (photo by Eric Gillet)
As Bernarda Alba in “The House of Bernarda Alba” with Hannah Victory, Anna Kritikos, Wendy Wyatt-Mair, Maria Candelaria & Jackie Joanino
with Simon Vance (photo by Stephen Vance)
(banner photo Larisa Shaterian, 2018)
