Dr. Suzie J. Jarmain is a multiple-degree, award-winning creative academic who investigates acting character. Twenty-seven years of professional work has transformed Suzie into a solo actor-performer, teacher and writer, working with companies such as: National Theatre of Scotland (UK), BBC Scotland (UK), Traverse Theatre (UK), The Arches (UK), North Edinburgh Arts Centre (UK), The Performance Space (AUS), Melbourne Theatre Company (AUS), La Mama Theatre (VIC), Union House Theatre (AUS), PACT (NSW), Shopfront (NSW), Victorian College of the Arts (AUS), Melbourne University (AUS), and Monash University (AUS) amongst others. Specialising in the relationship between identity and acting, her article Acting Dangerously: confessions of a Transformational Actor was published in ArtsHub (2022) and the essay My Name Is…? on transformation in acting will be published in the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA) general issue (82) in 2023. Suzie was awarded the Phillip Parson’s Prize (ADSA 2016) for performance as research (acting) and has presented nationally and internationally on acting and character work.
