Ep. 55 What Would Suzie Do?

Today I sit down with Suzie Leger Her band is playing tonight at Capybara in Brooklyn www.capybaranyc.com 9:30 -10 pm And on April the 8th, we are playing at the Bowery Electric in the East Village :) Suzie Léger is an award-winning Austrian-Canadian artist, musician, actress and director based in New York City. She received her master’s degree in ‘Transmedia Arts’ from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. There, she acquired expertise in conceptual art, filmmaking, performance and graphic design, weaving together different media for her works. Eager to find new sites of cultural production, methodologies or genres, her artistic analysis focused on the power relation between language and perception. She co-founded the not-for-profit art association Lafin C’estmerde that organized concerts, exhibitions and talks, building a platform to support female artists and entrepreneurs in the Creative Arts in Vienna. Suzie is fluent in German, English, Portuguese and French. She also lived in São Paulo, Brazil, and London, UK, before moving to New York, where she extended her skills in film and theater at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and in music production at The Juilliard School. She is the Lead singer and Creative Director of the self-described “lazy-punk” band WHAT WOULD TILDA SWINTON DO and the co-founder of the group’s music publishing company PHG Publishing. In addition, Suzie is the Assistant Director of the Obie Award-winning theater collaboration PearlDamour for their immersive new production Ocean Filibuster, which has been developed with the A.R.T at Harvard University. Among her honors and awards, she can count a Ö1 talent grant by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and a START-stipend of the Austrian Chancellery. Léger also received an honorary award from the ARS ELECTRONICA, the 1st prize of the International Video Art Festival Now&After in Russia, and an award for best short film at the Women’s Film Days Vienna, among others. The songs featured in the episode are: Liebesrausch Apple Tree Bikerbraut And you can find all of Suzie's videos on her website: http://suzieleger.com