Susann Fletcher has spent the
last twenty five years appearing in a succession of Broadway shows, national tours and regional and stock performances.
She was last seen on Broadway and on tour with The Full Monty, winning rave reviews
for her portrayal of Georgie Bukatinsky. Immediately preceding that, she was on the road as Dolly Tate
in the First National Tour of Annie Get Your Gun. That performance garnered her a National
Broadway Theatre Award nomination. She has been seen on Broadway as Smitty in How to Succeed in
Business Without Really Trying, and as Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls. She created
the role of Donna Douglas in the original Broadway company of The Goodbye Girl, starring Bernadette Peters
and Martin Short. She was an original company member of the Tony Award winning Jerome Robbins’
Broadway, where she recreated such classic roles as Miss Electra from Gypsy, Golde from Fiddler
on the Roof, The Timid Girl from the Charleston in Billion Dollar Baby and more. She
was an original company member of the ill fated Broadway production of Raggedy Ann. Her
first Broadway show was The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas in which she played Ruby Rae and closed the show
as Angel. Other national tours include How To Succeed…, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway,
My One and Only, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?, Puttin’ on the Ritz and
more.
Ms. Fletcher had
the honor of playing Phyllis Diller’s daughter in a tour of Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella.
Other regional and stock credits include Miss Mona in Whorehouse, Gloria Thorpe in Damn Yankees,
Susan in Company, Anita in West Side Story, Bonnie in Anything
Goes, Shelia in A Chorus Line and Gladys Bumps
in Pal Joey for which she received a Barrymore Award nomination.
Susann has made guest appearances on The Producers,
Law and Order, All My Children, One Life to Live,
Reading Rainbow and Texas and had the lead role in the feature film Bloodsucking
Pharoahs in Pittsburgh, which is gaining cult status within the slasher genre.
Ms Fletcher is a member of the Playwrights and Director’s
Workshop at The Actor’s Studio. She has taken a sabbatical from performing to create A Girl
Called Dusty, her first venture into playwriting. It had it’s World Premiere
at The Provincetown Repertory Theater garnering favorable reviews and sold out houses and has since been optioned for future
productions throughout the country.
A true triple threat, (actor, singer and dancer), Ms Fletcher has had the honor of
working with the top choreographers on Broadway, including, Jerome Robbins, Graciella Danielle, Tommy Tune, Michael Kidd,
Pat Birch, Wayne Cilento, Jerry Mitchell, Thommie Walsh and more.
A native Virginian and transplanted
New Yorker, Susann now happily resides in Edgewater, NJ.
