Suzanne Sole is an actor, comedian, singer, and storyteller whose career spans television, film, theater, musical theater, sketch comedy, cabaret, and national tours. Her television work includes Chicago P.D., Joey, and The New Partridge Family, along with roles in independent films and original web series. Onstage, Suzanne has toured nationally in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and SPANK! The Fifty Shades Parody, appeared in Annie Get Your Gun at Ravinia alongside Patti LuPone, and performed comedy at legendary venues including The Hollywood Improv and The Ice House.
Most recently, Suzanne returned to her Chicagoland roots and the Chicago stage as Rizzo and Principal McGee in Vape! The Grease Parody at the Apollo Theater. Her performances have earned standout notices from the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, and Chicago Theatre Review.
Creating original work has always been a big part of Suzanne’s creative life. Over the years, she has written and performed sketch comedy, created a collection of original characters, produced comedy videos and web series, and developed her own live and livestream shows. Her comedy is rooted in character, observation, and the endless supply of material that comes from people simply being people.
Suzanne’s creative work has also been shaped by more than 25 years on her own spiritual and healing journey. Through recovery, trauma, life challenges, and more than a few unexpected detours, she discovered that the things that ask the most of us can also be pretty damn funny. Eventually, those two parts of her life, comedy and the search for something deeper, found their way into the same room.
Suzanne is the creator and host of the award-winning The Spiritual Shitshow with Suzanne Sole, an honest, colorful, and uncensored look at how extraordinary the spiritual and healing journey can be, and what a shitshow it can be, too. The podcast received two 2025 Signal Awards: Gold in Religion & Spirituality and Bronze in Comedians Shaping Culture, and was a finalist in the 2025 People’s Choice Podcast Awards. Through solo episodes and conversations with guests, Suzanne brings humor, curiosity, and fearless honesty to everything from self-love and relationships to trauma, healing, spirituality, and the complicated business of becoming yourself.
Her one-woman musical comedy cabaret, Nice to Meet Me, brings that journey to the stage through comedy, storytelling, unforgettable characters, and song. At its heart is the question that runs through so much of Suzanne’s work: what happens when we begin stripping away who we thought we were supposed to be and actually get to know ourselves?
Whether she’s stepping into a role, creating a character, telling a story, singing onstage, or sitting behind a microphone, Suzanne is endlessly fascinated by what makes people tick, the beautiful parts, the painful parts, the ridiculous parts, and especially the parts we’d rather nobody else knew about.
Turns out, there’s a lot of comedy in there.
VAPE! THE GREASE PARODY | APOLLO THEATER CHICAGO
Suzanne is currently playing Rizzo and Principal McGee in the hilarious Vape! The Grease Parody at Chicago’s Apollo Theater. The hilarious send-up of Grease takes the kids of Rydell High and drops them into 2026, with all the vaping, texting, irreverence, and general insanity that entails. And a menopausal Rizzo.
CHRIS JONES / THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Much fun is had with that here by the hilarious Suzanne Sole, the most mature Rizzo you ever did see. ('She’s not pregnant! It was just menopause!')."
Colin DOUGLAS / CHICAGO THEATRE REVIEW
"As Betty Rizzo & Others, veteran comedian, actress, writer and podcast host Suzanne Sole is the standout star of this production. Cast a little older than her fellow actors, Ms. Sole also pricelessly portrays elderly Miss Lynch, the befuddled Principal of Rydell High. But her turn as the somewhat raunchy Rizzo is truly spot on. She’s both tough and, at times, touching; and Suzanne really knows her way around all the songs and dances, especially her parody of 'Look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee' and 'There Are Worse Things I Could Do.'"
John Wroblewski / Global Traveler USA
“I won’t spoil the almost-ending, but keep an eye on Rizzo (Suzanne Sole), who steals the show in many ways during the entirety of the production."
KT Hawbaker / The Chicago Reader
“Suzanne Sole is way too good…”
SPANK: THE FIFTY SHADES PARODY NATIONAL TOUR
Suzanne was on the national tour of the comedy SPANK! The Fifty Shades Parody as EB Janet, the wacky writer author of her wine infused erotica fan fiction. Here’s what what the people are said…
Bruce Miller / Sioux City Journal
“Suzanne Sole, playing the cheap and dirty E.B. Janet, unfolded the story, while her husband, Barry, was away with the kids. Sole was uber-talented. She sold the story better than an agent with a 20 percent cut. Slurping down wine while her fingers glided across the keyboard, she was a marvel of expression, a master of double takes.”
Colin Dabkowski / The Buffalo News
"Janet, a fictionalized version of James played by comically gifted Suzanne Sole. Sole is wonderful throughout.”
CantonRep.com
“Sole stole the show. Her portrayal of a housewife determined she could write was hilarious. She trampled the stage in red heels, drank Chardonnay, and interacted with her characters and the audience simultaneously.”
Leah Rocci, Broadway World
“Sole is the star of the show. As the narrator, she feeds off the crowd’s energy. Her gestures are hysterical!”
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN AT RAVINIA
Suzanne appeared opposite Patti LuPone in Annie Get Your Gun at Ravinia Festival in Chicago directed by Lonny Price, and Musical Director Paul Gemignani.
John Olson, Talkin’ Broadway
“Suzanne was a sultry rival to Annie as Dolly Tate”
Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
“Among the outstanding supporting cast were Chicago actors…and adding to the fun, Suzanne Sole as tarty troublemaker Dolly Tate.”
Bob Bullen, Chicago Theatre Addict
“Suzanne Sole nearly stole the show as the scheming Dolly Tate”
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS NATIONAL TOUR
Suzanne played the role of Muriel Eubanks in the National Tour of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, directed by Phil McKinley, choreographed by Vince Pesce.
Lisa Bornstein, Rocky Mountain News
“The best moments in the production come from the supporting characters. Suzanne Sole enters picking her teeth, a woman of uncouth, cheery wealth with a pleasing sensuality and a voice that pierces the fog.”
Bill Hirschman, Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale
“Suzanne Sole has the chops to sail her character across the orchestra pit.”
Christine Dolen, The Miami Herald
“This touring company pulls off one electric pairing: Suzanne Sole as Muriel Eubanks, one of Jameson’s victims, and Jeff Essex as Andre Thibault, the local lawman who aids Jameson’s cons. When the two allow a spark of attraction to play out as a full-on sexual conflagration, the afterglow scene becomes a comic gem.”
Alec Harvey, The Birmingham NewS
“Suzanne Sole shines in the part of Muriel, a loud-mouthed but hysterical heiress.”
