Susan Veronika Adler (Lena) is the daughter of Holocaust survivors.  She was born in Budapest, Hungary, grew up in Montreal, Canada and is a recent transplant to the Chicago area from Los Angeles.  She made her theatrical debut in the Chicago area as Emma Cristano in the Attic Playhouse production of Over the River and Through the Woods.  Since then she has worked at several Chicagoland theatres.  She was one of the featured actors in the Circle Theatre's Third Annual New Plays Festival, and has played the roles of Lillian Baron in Do Not Go Gentle at the Village Theatre Guild, Aunt Eva in the Apple Tree Theatre for Young Audiences' Devil's Arithmetic, Mrs. Van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank, the Grandmother in The Red Shoes, both at the Moraine Valley Performing Arts Center, the Mother in The Cloth at the 2004 Around the Coyote Festival and the Matchmaker Crossing Delancey .  Due to her strong musical theater background, she counts Katisha in the Mikado, Mame and Vera Charles in Mame and Ruth Stein in Milk and Honey among her favorite musical roles.  In Los Angeles she taught musical comedy workshops, directed community theatre productions and served as memory coach on productions of Tamara, The Rose Tattoo and Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf.  In Los Angeles as well as in Chicago, she has produced and performed one-woman shows and fundraising concerts for non-profit organizations.

This film is her first experience on a movie set.  Admittedly, film is very different from theatre, but she found the experience equally creative, challenging and satisfying.  Susan speaks several languages and credits her parents with her knowledge of Yiddish.  As a child, her parents would break into Yiddish when they didn't want the kids to understand what they were talking about