Named by Variety, one of the nation’s Top Ten for Innovative Approaches to Learning, nicknamed by her students “Comedy Mama”, Susanna Spies (Founder/President of Comedy Playground), has birthed a platform for self-discovery and expression through humor for the past twenty years. As a seasoned comic performing her many “faces”on stages throughout the country, to encouraging others how to share their own voices, she has successfully developed tools advocating humor as a universal language understood and accessible to all walks of life, from everyday life.
Comedy is the language of bridging experience, fear, and overcoming obstacles. It is the most useful tool known to the human spirit. Founder and President Susanna Spies began Comedy Playground, LLC over twenty years ago on the West Coast. Now a resident of Cold Spring, she has created a space here for adolescents and teens to be themselves and get away from the obstacles that make life complicated, to know their opinions, and to create a platform for their voices. Her curriculum taps into personal experiences to rehabilitate the human spirit through humor. Comedy brings confidence, enables, builds, achieves, and ultimately can constitute spiritual success.