Biography - Susan began her theatrical career and her long association with the Gate Theatre after she graduated from Trinity College in the 1970's. Since then she has played leading roles in the Gate in plays by Shakespeare, Wilde, Coward, Ibsen, Beckett, Ayckbourn, Williams, Russell, Hampton, Frank McGuinness and Brian Friel, and in adaptations from Dickens and Austen. She played May in Footfalls in the Gate's celebrated Beckett Festival in New York and London, and filmed Footfalls for the Beckett on Film project. Her work for the Abbey Theatre includes Six Characters in Search of an Author, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Hedda Gabler and The Duty Master. Most recently at the Gate she appeared as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, as Mrs. Bennett in Pride and Prejudice (Spoleto Festival in Charleston) and Jane Eyre, all directed by Alan Stanford, with Lia Williams in The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, directed by Dominic Cooke and in Martin Crimp's adaptation of The Misanthrope, Pygmalion, directed by Robin LeFevre and most recently The Constant Wife, directed by Alan Stanford. Susan's film and television work includes numerous appearances as Nora Clancy in Fair City, many one off dramas, the mini-series Rebel Heart(BBC), Bachelor's Walk (Accomplice/RTE), Proof (Subotica/RTE), The Big Bow Wow (RTE), Fintan Connolly's feature The Trouble With Sex. She recently appeared on radio in Emma Brown, Nights in the Gardens of Spain and Hotel du Lac for RTE. Susan made her most recent theatre appearances this summer as Stevie in The Goat directed by Michael Caven at the Project Arts Centre for Landmark productions and in Teja Verdes for Bespoke Productions also at the Project Arts Centre and in The Shooting Gallery directed by Jimmy Fay at Andrew's Lane Theatre for Bedrock Theatre Company.