Susan Hart (she/her) has been a Leading Lady in Chicago Equity Theatre for over 25 years. Her numerous credits at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre include Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, which subsequently played at The Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford Upon Avon (the MOST magical gig of Susan's career, as American actors are generally not allowed to be RSC actors!), Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, Pericles, Cymbeline, Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Anthony and Cleopatra, among many others. Goodman Theatre Credits include House and Garden, The Rose Tattoo, Oedipus Complex, and A Christmas Carol. Writers Theatre Credits include Misalliance, The Seagull, Loot, Our Town, Benefactors, The Glass Menagerie, As Bees in Honey Drown; The Gamester at Northlight Theater, as well as many other equity venues in Chicago. She also had the thrill of a lifetime playing Gertrude in Hamlet in director Michael Kahn's production at the Shakespeare Theatre in D.C. Regional credits include the aforementioned Shakespeare Theatre D.C, Summer Shakespeare at Notre Dame, Milwaukee Shakespeare and Baltimore Stage. She has worked with directors Frank Galati, Robert Falls, Michael Kahn, Barbara Gaines, Kate Whorisky, Mark Lamos, Michael Bogdanov, Michael Halberstam, William Brown and Gary Griffin to name a few.

Susan has established herself as a successful teacher of Shakespeare performance for hundreds of Chicago actors with her own independent training program. Other teaching credits include Chicago Shakespeare Theatre Classical Training Project, Loyola University, Notre Dame University Summer Shakespeare, and Act One Conservatory. She has also served as text coach for Chicago Shakespeare, Strawdog Theatre and Summer Shakespeare at Notre Dame. Directing credits include Macbeth at City Lit Theatre, and Falstaff’s Dream at Notre Dame.