Susanna Fournier is an award-winning Canadian theatre-maker, actor/director, and educator. She’s best known for her adventurous performance texts, interdisciplinary productions, and that gig she had in X-Men. Susanna’scompany, PARADIGM productions, produced her acclaimed trilogy, The Empire, as a full season of theatre, a radio-drama podcast, and a complete anthology (Playwrights Canada Press). Her other texts include Next Time I Die, HEART/BODY, PYPER, >take rimbaud, Always Still the Dawn, and antigone lives*. As an educator, Susanna shapes performance pedagogy and coaches Canada’s next generation of artists. She’s a guest artist at Toronto Metropolitan University, Etobicoke School of the Arts, Randolph College, and Cawthra Park Secondary School. www.susannafournier.com.