Susaan Jamshidi
- Actress
Susaan (rhymes like - put your shoes on, Susaan), is a Chicago trained and based actor who grew up just outside of Pittsburgh in Beaver, PA. She is a graduate of the esteemed Theatre School at DePaul University and cut her teeth with storied Chicago theatre ensembles. She's worked with some of the most sought after and celebrated directors including, Mary Zimmerman and Robert Falls, and has helped bring to life new work both on and off stage and screen. She is the recipient, along with her fellow castmates, Alyssa Thorderson and Glenn Stanton, of the Grand Jury Award for Best Performance (Cast) at the 2022 Sherman Oaks Film Festival for After: A Love Story, directed by Clare Cooney and written by Thorderson. She also received, along with her cast, a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Ensemble for the play Idomeneus. You can catch Susaan in The Second City produced web-series, The Tam and Kevin Show; as the voice of Betrys, the lead character in the internationally lauded animated short, Hibernation; and as MRI tech Rosie Abbasi on Chicago Med.