Susan began her love for the dramatic arts years ago where she performed on stage as an actor and dancer.
After deciding to opt out of her 30 year Advertising career, Susan rejoined the theater with the Cincinnati Playwright Initiatives staged readings for the plays "1832" (August 2017), “Humble Pie” (February 2018), “All Decked Out” and “Going West” (March 2019) and “Cold Serial” in May 2019. She currently serves on its board as the Treasurer and Marketing Manager.
Susan has also performed on stage as Snow White in the Contrary Tales production of the “The Big Bad Wolves” at Village Players in Fort Thomas, KY in June 2018. She was cast in August 2019 as Destiny, a featured dancer with the ensemble for “Rock of Ages” with Queen City Productions. In September 2019, she performed the role of Emily Gorski in the Sunset Players September 2019 production of “Greetings!” Susan was also cast in “Cole” where she performed as a vocalist and dancer for the Loveland Stage Company in November 2019. After COVID Susan decided to get back out on stage after she was cast as Kate in "Geezers" with Tri County Players in September 2023.
As a playwright, Susan’s first 10-minute play, “Denise’s Do Over” was selected for the February 2019 CPI and American Heart Association staged readings, Lovefest, Romantic Shorts from the Heart. “Denise’s Do Over” was also selected for a staged production at The Drama Workshop’s 10-minute play festival, “Home Brew Theater” in June 2019 at the Glenmore Playhouse and again for "Home View Theater" with a filmed online performance during the pandemic in December 2020.
Susan recently co-wrote her first full length play “Unfinished Business” with her husband, Doug Decatur, which was selected for a staged reading at the Aronoff in Cincinnati for CPI for its 2021 season and was a second round finalist at the 2020 Austin Film Festival and a finalist in the 2020 playwriting competition at ScreenCraft.
Susan wrote her own full-length play “Not Just Cousins" which was selected for a virtual cold reading by the Dramatists Guild in May 2020 from which her 10-minute play "Buy the Book" was excerpted and selected for a virtual production by the Know Theatre in Cincinnati in February 2021 and was also selected and performed live at Miami Writes at the Hamilton regional campus of Miami University in March 2022. "Not Just Cousins" also received a staged reading at the Fifth Third Theater in Cincinnati in November 2022.
Susan and her husband, Doug, will have their collaborative compilation of 8 ten-minute plays, "Lovestruck" performed at the Fifth Third Theater in November 2023.
Susan is a graduate of Miami University, Oxford, OH and obtained her MBA in 2013 from Indiana Wesleyan University.