Susan Dolan Stevens was born in Sterling Heights, MI and raised on a dairy farm. She attended Stevenson HS and was very active in Drama, Debate, Oral Interpretation-Forensics Competition, Varsity Sports and was a Student Council Officer. She graduated National Honor Society and attended Eastern Michigan University on scholarship. Her fondest theatrical experience at EMU was performing in Richard III. She transferred to Albion College to participate in the Great Lakes College Association program in New York. She had the great honor of studying with Lee Strasberg, Elaine Aiken and Geoffrey Horne at the Lee Strasberg Institute. She stage managed the playwrights lab at the Actors Studio under Harold Clurman. She headed west to get her MFA in directing from the University of Utah and had the privilege of studying Shakespeare under Dave E. Jones and voice with Charlene Bletson. She signed with Burton & Perkins agency during her last year of graduate school. One of her first commercials was for McDonalds despite being a vegetarian. She was also featured in Ford and Toyota commercials and owned a number of Fords' and drives a Prius to this day. She regularly commuted to L.A. for work and is now based in the beautiful mountains of Utah.