Susan Gratch is an award-winning scenic and puppet designer and educator. She is Emerita Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at Â鶹´«Ã½.
Susan’s award winning designs are familiar to Los Angeles area audiences. Recent projects include scenery for Something Rotten, Once Upon a Mattress, and Floyd Collins at San Gabriel Valley CSArts; puppets for Amos & Boris and scenery for Stinky Cheese Man at South Coast Repertory; scenery for Colony Collapse and puppets for The Children at Boston Court Theater; scenery for Trevor, The Liar, and The Big Meal at Artists Repertory Theater in Portland, OR; and scenery for The Doctor’s Dilemma at A Noise Within.
Other designs include scenery and/or lighting for nearly 90 productions at Â鶹´«Ã½, among them Into The Woods, Seize The King, Everybody, Urinetown, The Liar, Berkhoff’s Agammenon, and Hairspray; Theater 150 in Ojai, CA (scenery for Breadcrumbs and scenery and puppets for The Winter’s Tale); The Theatre@Boston Court (Othello, Bleed Rail, Winchester House, Mother Courage, Cold Tender); A Noise Within (Ghosts, Arms and the Man); The Colony Studio Theatre (The Thousandth Night, Indoor/Outdoor, The Man Who Came To Dinner, Putting It Together, Heartbreak House, Could I Have This Dance?); The Geffen Playhouse (War Music); 24th Street Theatre (Kate Crackernuts); International City Theatre (Visiting Mr. Green, Amy’s View, The Servant to Two Masters, Swinging on a Star); Los Angeles Theater Center (War Music, Ian McKellen’s A Knight Out in Los Angeles); and Bottom’s Dream Theatre Company (premiere’s of Eric Ehn’s Fire Flow, Choke Cherry, Ruth Margraff’s Elektra Fugues and Mac Wellman’s The Lesser Magoo).
Susan’s non-theatrical projects include: Spirit of Liberty Awards presented by People for the American Way; Achievement Awards presented by the Fulfillment Fund; and pageant puppet design development and execution for the 1996 Atlanta Centennial Olympics Closing Ceremonies and the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies.ting.]