Susan Gayle Todd
Susan Gayle Todd co-founded the Weird Sisters Women’s Theater Collective in 2004. Her MA thesis in Women’s and Gender Studies culminated in The Weird Sisters, Hand in Hand (2005), which was produced and performed by a cast and crew of over thirty women. The collective grew as Susan went on to complete her PhD in Theater at UT Austin. Susan has directed the Weirds in Michelle Lee’s Angels of the House (2006); Twelfth Night (2007) The Merry Wives of Windsor (2008); Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Good Night Desdemona Good Morning Juliet (2009); her own Sycorax (2010), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2011), and the Five Lesbian Brothers’ Brides of the Moon (2013).
Since 1992 Susan has been directing, performing, teaching, and studying theater in a variety of places: Shakespeare at Winedale, Oxford University, Shakespeare’s Globe in London, the University of Texas, the Huntington Library in California, Austin’s Scottish Rite Theater, St. Edward’s University, and Leander High School.
Susan served as Austin Scottish Rite Theater’s Producing Artistic Director from 2014-2021. There she wrote, directed, and produced dozens of plays and oversaw the 501(c)(3) non-profit and its historic 1871 theater. Now she lives in Porto, Portugal where she loves to walk on beautiful old trails and drink Portuguese wine. She still builds community through theater and travels back to Austin to cheer on the thriving Weird Sisters!