One of my longtime audiobook narrator volunteers: Sue Bilich

 . . . It would be difficult to categorize Sue’s ongoing career in Austin. Sue first became interested in acting and theatre after attending comedy coaching classes at Cap City Comedy. During her time working with the Film Commission, Sue was cast as an extra in Lonesome Dove miniseries Comanche Moon and the 1984 film Songwriter, featuring Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson – which were filmed in South Austin. While filming in the background of The Last Prostitute, Sue and cast members wore layers of Western wear on set in a saloon with the AC unit turned off. She admitted, “There was a lot of perspiring happening that day.”

 . . . Recently, Sue was working on revising her most recent short story, “The Day in the Life of an 18 Hour Bra – The Rise and Fall of a Double ‘D’.” At 88 years old, Sue still has a passion for performing and enjoys writing comical skits that she will occasionally upload on YouTube. This written parody, however, is an especially unique one as the reader is taken through the perspective of the bra in question.

 . . . Sue has a favorite saying, which is handily stitched on cloth and framed on a wall in her kitchen. The phrase is a translation of something that her parents would say in Yiddish to Sue and her brothers growing up. It’s a rhyme she hopes young Austinites will remember, in a world she fears has become too comfortable with hateful words. “Be careful of the words you say, keep them soft and sweet. You never know from day to day which ones you will have to eat.””