Susie Youssef - "Lina"

Susie Youssef is an Australian improviser, comedy writer, performer and producer. She has performed in improv and sketch comedy shows at the Sydney and Melbourne comedy festivals for the past five years. She has written for stage and television in Australia and trained and performed for the corporate market overseas.

In 2008, Susie debuted on the Comedy Channel’s “Mother of All Galas”. Also in 2008 she travelled to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival alongside comedy band the Axis of Awesome. She returned to Edinburgh with the band in 2009 where they achieved sell-out success.

She performed on national radio station Triple M in October 2009 as a writer/performer in the new radio play “The Day Before The Day Before Tomorrow” and performed with sketch comedy troupe The Delusionists at “The World’s Funniest Island” Cockatoo Island comedy festival in Sydney.

She recently returned to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with improv show “The Ultimate Board Game Unscripted”. Susie aims to publish a book for children, master a cheesecake recipe and feed the masses a generous slice of improv/cheesecake for breakfast.