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Susan Stroupe

Susan Stroupe is the Legacy and Communications Manager for the Center for International Theatre Development (CITD), founded by Philip Arnoult and Carol Baish.  She is also a Baltimore-based theater maker who specializes in interdisciplinary, immersive, and devised works. Susan has worked in the Twin Cities, LA, NYC, Albuquerque, Baltimore and her hometown Atlanta as a director, performer, writer, puppeteer, teaching artist, dramaturg, and deviser in professional and community-based professional companies, collaborating with many kinds of artists, and actors and nonactors of many ages, cultural backgrounds, gender identities, and abilities. In Baltimore, Susan has worked freelance for many companies, and is a founding member and Core Creator for Submersive Productions. She is a long-time Teaching Artist for Baltimore Center Stage and Everyman Theatre, and adjunct professor and frequent guest director at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).

Philip stands in front of a wall of frames
Essay

Continuing the Legacy of Philip Arnoult

16 December 2024

Philip Arnoult was one of the diplomats of the theatrical profession—those who made it their life’s work not to make the work but to make connections between people who make the work, crossing the invisible boundaries of countries and politics. Reflecting on Philip’s life and legacy, Susan Stroupe asks how we can continue his work. 

Helen Mirren in The Tempest.
Essay

Conversation Starter

Open-Gender Casting

24 August 2012

If the play doesn’t explicitly need the genders prescribed to convey the story-do we need to cast the roles as listed then? It is time to start talking about open-gender conversation.

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