Susan Messing
The Firecracker Department - The Blaze Sessions Season 02
English - February 16, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 89.5 MBTV & Film Arts interview actor conversation creative filmmaker women womeninfilm Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Our guest this week is Chicago-based award-winning actor, improviser, comedian and teacher SUSAN MESSING!
Susan is a New Jersey native and a graduate of Northwestern University’s Theatre School. She has been an improviser and comedian for over 35 years! Susan is an alumna of Chicago’s beloved iO Theatre and The Second City’s Mainstage. Susan is a founding member of Chicago’s Annoyance Theatre. It’s an infamous theatre and associated ensemble that deals with absurd and outrageous humour.
Some of her notable performances are with Blaine Swen in BLESSING at the iO, with Norm Holly in MOLLY, the critically acclaimed MESSING WITH A FRIEND at The Annoyance and with The Boys at The Second City. She was in the lineup for the TBS Just For Laughs festival all 5 years of its residence in Chicago. She presented BRAVING THE UNKNOWN at an independently organized Ted X event at the University of Chicago.
Susan’s standup act with her puppet, JOLLY, has been featured at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, on Comedy Central’s PREMIUM BLEND and NBC’s LATE FRIDAYS. Her most impressive bit movie role was as a bad stripper in a halo brace in LET’S GO TO PRISON!
Susan created and taught her curriculum at Chicago’s iO and LA’s iO West, along with The Annoyance Theatre, The Second City and around the world. She was an adjunct instructor for Chicago’s Loyola University at DePaul University, The School at Steppenwolf, and now she teaches at The University of Chicago.
Twitter: @MessingSusan
Instagram: @susanalicemessing
World Comedy Expo, March 25-27, 2022 in Chicago, Susan will be performing with “Messing with Mason” and also the lady supergroup “1Zs”.
https://worldcomedyexpo.com/show/landry-and-summers-messing-with-mason/
https://worldcomedyexpo.com/festival-lineup/
Podcast Team
Head Producer and Editor: Winnie Wong @wonder_wong
Editor: Shayne Stolz @shaynestolz
Graphic: Vicki Brier @brier2019
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