Council Biography
Susan Egan
Susan Egan is currently in production as a series regular on the new WB sitcom Nikki, which will premiere this October. She just completed a year on Broadway in the hit-revival Cabaret at Studio 54, where she received outstanding critical acclaim for her portrayal of the downwardly-mobile Sally Bowles.
Susan made her Broadway debut when she originated the role of Belle in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, for which she was nominated for both the Tony and Drama Desk Award for Best Actress in 1994. She has
also starred on Broadway (seducing F. Murray Abraham and Betty Buckley) as Princess Leonide in Triumph of Love, and as Margy Frake in State Fair, and played the role of Kim MacAfee in the national tour of Bye, Bye Birdie, with Tommy Tune.
In Los Angeles, Susan recreated her role of Belle in Beauty and the Beast, starred alongside Carol Burnett in Sondheim's Putting It Together at the Mark Taper Forum, sang the role of Nellie Forbush in South Pacific at the Hollywood Bowl, and originated the character of the Young Wife in the West Coast premiere of Hello Again, with the Blank Theatre Company.
Her other stage credits include The Sound of Music; South Pacific; Singin' In the Rain; Baby; No, No Nanette; My One and Only; The Boy Friend; Sunday In the Park With George; and 42nd Street.
On film, Susan created the voice of Meg, the sassy and impossibly-waisted femme-fatale in the Disney animated feature Hercules, and sang the part of Angel in Disney's Lady and the Tramp II. She can actually be SEEN starring in Fine Line FeaturesÕ Man of the Century, which won the Audience Award at the Slamdance Film Festival, and in the soon-to-be-released independent Kiss and Tell.
Her television credits include Party of Five, Drew Carey, Almost Perfect, Partners, All My Children, Loving, movies for ABC, CBS and the Disney Channel, and numerous television specials, including Great Performances for PBS.
Susan can be heard on several recordings, including Walt Disney Records' Beauty and the Beast (Broadway cast album), the motion picture soundtracks for Hercules and Lady and the Tramp II, and Princesses, Volumes I & II; Jay Records' Triumph of Love (Broadway cast album), The Ladies Singing Their Songs and Bravo
Broadway; and Varese-Sarabande's The Stephen Schwartz Album, Drat! the Cat, Sondheim at the Movies, Cinderella, Broadway Sings Bacharach, and Peter Pan. Susan is currently recording her first solo album, So Far, with Jay Records, which will be released next year.
Susan has received outstanding notices with her one-woman cabaret act, Susan Egan in Concert, which has played such venues as Founders Hall at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, the Cinegrill in the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Pepperdine University, Citrus College, and UCLA. Susan spends her free time writing and reading everything in sight.
