A group of student actors with large puppets in youthful yellow dresses from the production of "Bluest Eye."

Susie Owens

Person wearing oversized lion headpiece and glasses in a workshop

Production Manager
Department of Theatre and Dance

  • Theatre and Dance
Room 126, Wright Hall
Office Hours
8 a.m. – 5 p.m. M–F

Susie Owens is in her fourteenth year as Production Manager with the Department of Theatre and Dance. Much of her time here has been spent renovating and upgrading theatrical systems as well as managing an evolving season of diverse productions in the various performance spaces of the department. Prior to her arrival at UC Davis, she was a touring stagehand specializing in scenic automation for The Phantom of the Opera, Radio City Music Hall Rockettes, and The Lion King. During her time on ‘the Road,’ she was also the Head Electrician of the Peter Pan tour (Broadway. Gershwin Theatre 1998) as well as the Head Props on A Chorus Line and Fiddler on the Roof. A forty year member of IATSE 50 (the stagehands local of Northern California), Ms Owens is also the Production Manager of Broadway Sacramento’s touring productions.