Susan Raab Simonson (May 1, 1969 – November 27, 2006) was an American stage actress and theatre producer.Lynne Heffley

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"Susan Raab Simonson -- actress, producer"
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Career

For seven years, she was as associate producer for L.A. Theatre Works, working on its nationally syndicated radio series "The Play's the Thing", and on more than 80 plays for the group, among them a popular radio production of Annabelle Gurwitch's ''Fired!'' Before that, she had been an actress"Actress Finds It's a Dog's Life: Susan Raab Unleashes Sexy Canine Character for "Sylvia'"
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'', February 9, 1997 (pay site). and had worked for The Actors' Gang in Los Angeles.

Personal life

She married director

Eric Simonson Eric Simonson (born June 27, 1960, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American writer and director in theatre, film and opera. He is a member of Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, and the author of plays '' Lombardi'', ''Fake'', ''Honest'', ''Magic/B ...

in 2004; they had one son.

Death

She was diagnosed with

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the day after her husband won the

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for Short Subject Documentary. She died eight months later, aged 37, in

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References

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