Susan ericksen biography

Early life and education .
Susan Ericksen is an American actress and audiobook narrator.
Susan Ericksen is a Renaissance woman.

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"I have a great love of literature, music, the spoken word, as well as theater, dance, and history," Susan Ericksen says. "There's a kind of pleasure I get from bouncing around the different genres that I read." She may narrate a great variety of audiobooks, but Susan is firmly entrenched in the world of mystery and suspense, excelling at giving voice to the works of three powerhouse authors of the genre: Sara Paretsky, J.D. Robb, and Meg Gardiner. - 2010 Best Voices

Susan Ericksen is a Renaissance woman. In addition to being an Earphones-winning audiobook narrator and director--she's a writer, an amateur linguist, an actress, a mother, and a wife. In the 1980s she joined former classmate David Colacci in western Michigan, where he was artistic director for the Hope Summer Repertory Theater. Twenty miles away, a fledgling audiobook publisher called Brilliance was looking for narrators.

"That was when everything was done on tape," Susan says. "It was a laborious process. And the market wasn't anything like it is now. But we both loved it. It was a natural thing for us to do. Back

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Susan is the founder of Eriksen-Meier Consulting and a twenty-five year Jackson resident with a long history of community leadership. She is a board member of the Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce, serving as Chair of the Chamber’s Membership Committee, and a member of the Jackson Hole Rotary Club since 2001. Her past positions include Executive Director of the Community Children’s Project, Development Director for the Art Association, Grant Writer for Teton County Government and Senior Program Officer for the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole. She holds a dual Masters Degree in Education and Environmental Science from Antioch New England Graduate School, a Bachelors Degree in Natural Resources from the University of Massachusetts and is a graduate of the Excellence in Nonprofit Management Certificate Program through the University of Wisconsin. She is licensed by the Standards for Excellence Institute and Certified in Board Education by BoardSource. Susan’s experience, passion for complex community projects, and strong commitment to building community connecti

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Early life[]

Susan Ericksen

Birth Name

Susan Ericksen

Birth Place

Illinois, USA

Education

Masters in Fine Arts from Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA

Years Active

1984 to Present

Susan Ericksen is an American actress best known as a prolific narrator of audiobooks.

Susan Ericksen spent the early part of her life in Illinois, where her father, Don Ericksen, was a Victorian literature professor at Illinois State University. "My father is a Dickens scholar, so stories and characters are what we grew up with. People have always read aloud in our family."^[1]

Ericksen moved to Minnesota to attend Macalester College. She began her theatrical career there, acting at the Children’s Theatre, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres and on other local stages. She also attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas for her masters of fine arts in acting. That’s where she met fellow student David Colacci, an Augsburg University graduate from Minneapolis.

She later joined David in western Michigan, where he was artistic director for the Hope Summer Repertory Theate