Susanna Fournier

Susanna Fournier is an award-winning Canadian theatre-maker, actor, writer, and the artistic producer of PARADIGM productions.  She is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, the Artist Producer Training program at Generator, and is a resident on camera coach and instructor at Armstrong Acting Studios.  Select television credits include: Shadowhunters, Rookie Blue, 12 Monkeys, Reign, Murdoch Mysteries, 3 seasons as ‘Zoe’ on SyFy’s hit show Being Human, and Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery. For film she starred opposite Haley Joel Osment in Richie Mehta’s I’ll Follow You Down, as well as roles in XMEN: Days of Future Past, Bomb Girls, and Journey Back to Christmas. 

In 2018/19, PARADIGM is producing Susanna’s trilogy of performance texts, The Empire, in Toronto. The Empire, comprised of The Philosopher’s Wife, The Scavenger’s Daughter, and Four Sisters, abstracts over 500 years of modern history, tracing the ramifications of Imperialism as it pervades into every aspect of life from global empire building to the colonization of the body and psyche. Upcoming, Susanna’s double bill of new texts, Always Still the Dawn, will have its world premiere, commissioned and produced by Canadian Stage. Her latest work, antigone lives* was commissioned and produced by Residenztheatre (Munich), where Susanna was the first North American playwright invited to participate in WELT BUEHNE, an international playwrights unit.  Susanna’s writing is supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, the Toronto and Ontario Arts Councils, The Banff Centre for the Arts, The Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition, The Patrick Conner Award, The Cayle Chernin Award, and in 2018 Susanna was a finalist for the Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award. She is currently working on a screen play and several large-scale adaptations for television and stage.