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Suzanne Petri is an actor, singer, director, producer,voice over and coach.
A 2006 recipient of the "After Dark" Award for Outstanding Cabaret Artist,
Noted Chicago actress and cabaret darling, Suzanne has brought her "marvelous
voice... vivacious performance... wry sophistication" to dozens of stages from
American Theater Company to the Chicago Cultural Center, from Chicago
Shakespeare to Steppenwolf to the late great Toulouse on the Park and was please
to appear at the Mabel Mercer Foundation's 3rd Chicago Cabaret Convention on
March 10th, 2006 at Park West and will perform on October 19th at the New York
Cabaret Convention 2006: The Mabel Mercer's 21st Anniversary Celebration at
Jazz at Lincoln Center. She recently performed Wunderbar the music of Kurt
Weill, Lotte Lenya and Marlene Dietrich at Maxim's Nancy Goldberg
International Center. She is an ensemble of American Theater Company where she was seen in the midwest premiere of "Kid-Simple" as well as "The Hairy Ape," "Two Rooms," "A Lie of the Mind," "The Threepenny Opera," and she presented several musical tributes including 1940's Holiday Radio Spectacular! tributes to Hoagy Carmichael, Mel Torme & Cole Porter, Kander & Ebb, Kurt Weill and a tribute to Rosemary Clooney which she also co-produced with Brad Thacker at the Chicago Cultural Center, where she has been in at least a dozen shows. She has appeared in many of the city's leading stage productions including her Jeff-nominated performance as Madame Hortense in "Zorba" at Apple Tree Theatre and Malvolio in "Twelfth Night" at the Goodman Theatre and Carson Grace Becker's "Book Of Mercy" at Chicago Dramatists. A passionate advocate of cabaret, Suzanne is the president and a founding member of the Chicago Cabaret Professionals (www.chicagocabaret.org.) She is currently working on her studio CD "Das Grand Tour" with her musical director and collaborator on so many cabaret projects, the multi-talented Bob Moreen. Suzanne and Bob have appeared regularly at Cyrano's Cafe Simone; A Parisian Cabaret. Upcoming: Chicago Cabaret Professionals presents its annual Gala, Music Speaks: A Cabaret Celebration on November 12th at Park West, in which she will perform. Suzanne begins 2007 in "Oklahoma!" at American Theater Company. As a cabaret artist, she performs a wide variety of music from European and American cabaret to jazz standards and show tunes. Her show "A Marvelous Party!" was listed best of 2003 by Cabaret Hotline and her live CD was recorded at Davenport's and is available on the "Shop" page.. She loves mixing costumes, songs and stories to illuminate the characters she sings. She chooses music that connects to her heart with a passion that moves her audience's heart, whether revealing a specific artist, or work of great composers and lyricists, in songs from "The Bilbao Song" by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht and 'La Vie En Rose" by Edith Piaf, to "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" by Cole Porter and "Send In The Clowns" by Stephen Sondheim as well as original songs by contemporary composers. In her capacity as president of Chicago Cabaret Professionals she and has co-produced and performed in CCP's Galas at the Cultural Center, Maxim's, the Royal George, Second City etc. plus annual "A Holiday Cabarets" which benefit Teen Living Programs and Save The Children. Suzanne was a 2000 Cabaret Fellow at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's Cabaret Symposium where she studied with Julie Wilson, Margaret Whiting, Carol Hall, Lina Koutrakos, Rick Jensen, Lincoln Mayorga, Tex Arnold and other cabaret luminaries. Her film and TV work includes "Just Visiting," "Milwaukee, Minnesota," "Early Edition" and "Evil Has A Face." download portrait page |