Susheel Bibbs is an internationally acclaimed touring classical singer, actress, and filmmaker, as well as an award-winning producer-director. After receiving degrees in Opera from Boston University’s School for the Arts and in Vocal Performance from The New England Conservatory, she debuted in Boston’s famed Jordan Hall and began a career in opera and concerts throughout the US and abroad, touring in Canada, Europe, and Asia. A diverse sampling of her classical presenters includes The Opera Company of Boston, The Santa Fe Opera, Opera on PBS (WGBH-TV), Associate Artists (now Boston Lyric) Opera, New York’s Alice Tully (now Geffen) Hall, San Francisco’s Today's Artists and Four Seasons Concerts, The Los Angeles’ Mozart Orchestra, The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra series at Herbst Theater, Salzburg’s Mozarteum and Festival, and Robert Schuller’s Hour of Power, to name a few.

   In 1988 began a series of critically acclaimed presentations: She became the first artist to tour 3 full Unsung Muse recitals of the classical song of Black composers nationally and in 1994 Bibbs (after several years of research) began touring one-woman music-dramatic performances on Mary Ellen Pleasant -- "The Mother of Civil Rights in California." These performances, which continue today, have been presented by hundreds of venues nationwide and in Canada --in theaters, museums, universities, cultural societies, and opera houses and under diverse auspices, such as JDees Presents, Foster Neuman Artists, M.E.P. Productions, the Missouri and California Arts Councils' Touring-Artist Programs, California Humanities' History Alive Program, Canada's Promised Land Program, and The National Parks Service’s Network-to-Freedom Program. She has also appeared as an actress in four films and in expert commentary for series, such as Backroads on ABC-TV, Mysteries in the Museum for The Travel Channel, African American’s Explore the West (vol. 2) for PBS, The California Report for NPR, ABC News, and many more.

   Bibbs has won over 26 special awards throughout her career -- The coveted Laid Foundation stipend in Voice early in her singing career and in media, a national EMMY as the nation's youngest PBS TV Executive Producer for a national series and international awards for her independent documentaries on Mary Pleasant and The Hyers Sisters in which she performed, wrote, produced, and directed. Her feature performance documentary on Mary Pleasant was screened officially at The Cannes Film Festival, and her films continue to be broadcast nationally on PBS and offered on Amazon Prime and Vimeo Video.

   Bibbs has served in outreach, presentations, lectures, and masterclasses for opera companies, organizations, and Universities since the 1980s, among them U.C. Berkeley, The New England Conservatory Opera Dept., The Opera Theater of St. Louis, NANM National Conference, Pittsburg Festival Opera, HBCUs, and The National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2003, she released An Unsung Muse, a short film chronicling 200 years of Black classical song, including concert spirituals. For this work, she won the first Keeper of the Spiritual Award given by Oakland’s Friends of Negro Spirituals in 2004 and the first Willis Patterson Award of The African-American Art-song Alliance. Susheel also published an Amazon best-selling book Heritage of Power on Mary Pleasant and, also on Amazon, booklets on performing concert spirituals and on the life of the Hyers Sisters.

In 2012 she founded The Living Heritage Foundation, dedicated to advancing the professional careers of arts and media professionals -- a way she says of "giving back."

   For her contributions to the Arts and Humanities, Susheel has received commendations from The African-American Museum of Los Angeles, The City Museum in St. Louis, and The Highest Commendation of the Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco. Her career continues to be chronicled on PBS Arts Showcase, and she has been awarded the Marquis Who's Who among Women Lifetime Achievement Award.