Suzan Solomon

Suzan Solomon was born in Pittsburgh, PA. Right after graduation, she moved to New York where she landed her first Actors Equity show, Let My People Come. Suzan then went on to become Bubbly Brown White Girl in Bubbling Brown Sugar, where she played the young Sophie Tucker role on Broadway and with the National Touring Company. After touring, she landed a dancing gig in the movie Saturday Night Fever. Upon moving to Los Angeles and wanting to become a recording star, she sang song demos for composers including her own original songs and as a back-up singer for Al Wilson of Show and Tell fame and Brian Wilson's first solo album. Afterward, she traveled to the Middle East to perform at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Oman and Dubai with her classic soul, top forty dance, jazz and blues band The Blue Class Soul Band. Recently she's written and performed her one-woman solo show It's Hard Out Here For A White Chick Sounding Black And Trying To Act. She also originated the role of Jenny's Mom in Internet Dating, The Musical. One of her favorite roles included playing the cantankerous, crazy Jeanette in Theatre 7's production of The Full Monty, at Theater/Theater in Los Angeles. Suzan also played The Medium/Aunt Monica in the West Coast Premiere of Michael John La Chiusa's See What I Wanna See at the Blank Theatre. Some of her additional roles include Hedda Hopper in Lost In Hollywoodland at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills; and as Lois in the World Premiere of Stiltz, The Musical at The Actor's Forum in North Hollywood. She recently completed her run as Rachel, the Jewish mother in the World Premiere production of Pillars Of New York. Write Act Repertory produced Pillars Of New York to sold out performances every night at The Brickhouse Theater in North Hollywood to glowing reviews. Her TV credits include The Middle; Fast Lane; Urban Myths; Married With Children; All My Children; Pushing Daisies; Raising the Bar; Telepathetic; (a pilot for Nickelodeon with director Gary Halvorson), Sex Sent Me To The ER and a short appearance on Live With Fran. Her Film credits include Saturday Night Fever; School Daze; Impact (The Short Film); Tarot (A Love Documentary) and The Sac Fly. Recently she appeared as a flying witch in The Toyota Rav4 Super Bowl Commercial. When not on stage or in front of the camera, Suzan lives in Sherman Oaks, California with her husband and is the surrogate mother to many wonderful dogs.