Susie Schutt

Susie (she|her|hers) is a registered drama therapist working out of Third Person Therapy and Thrive Behavioral Health, and an intimacy director for local colleges and theatre companies in Rhode Island. She served as the Gamm Theatre’s Director of Education & Drama Therapist from 2014 to 2022, assistant directing several shows during her tenure. As the founding Director of New Works, Susie helped establish Wilbury Theatre Group as an incubator for new works and emerging artists from 2013-16. Previous productions with Wilbury include: It’s A Spaceship Now, The Teller, Cain + Abel, and Rapture Blister Burn as director, and intimacy direction for Lifted, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, and The Humans. Susie received her MA in mental health counseling and drama therapy from Lesley University and is a graduate of the University of Michigan, with a BA in sociology and social inequality.