a b o u t m e
Samantha is a Sacramento actress, writer, and director who grew up in Seattle and started performing very young in the theatre and choir space. Eventually she realized she has really terrible stage fright so she doesn’t do that anymore. But, she really admires theatre as an art form and goes to as many live performances as she can.
She loves working within the subtly of film acting and all the moving parts that go into crafting a great performance for the screen. She has mostly acted in drama, but has done three fully improvised feature films which she greatly enjoyed and a few comedies. After one of which, a friend once told her “wow, you were actually really funny in that”.
She doesn’t remember a particular film that made her fall in love with making movies but rather a series of school projects where she begged teachers to let her make a video instead of having to speak in front of the class. She found that she loved cutting disparate parts together to create a story and say something to an audience and create emotion. One day in high school, a friend and a teacher teamed up to strong arm her into writing a one act play and she fell in love with hearing her words come out of actors mouths and get a response from an audience.
Combine all those elements together and here she is today!
She misses the rain and the grey skies of Seattle but she loves the passionate, artistic community in Sacramento and is excited to be growing her career here. She works on set as much as she can, wearing whatever hat she needs to to learn filmmaking and keep growing. When she is not creating her own work or acting, she is often working in the art department as a production designer. She loves the art department as a creative outlet and set design is heavily emphasized in her own directing work.
She enjoys many genres as an audience member and creator and dreams of dark comedies and sarcasm that makes you laugh out loud but is slowly coming to terms with the fact that most of her films come out melancholic.
Maybe it’s growing up around all that rain.
She just finished a short film that she wrote and directed based on the myth of Narcissus, called Narcissa. Nothing is ever perfect of course, but she thinks it came out pretty good! She is also working on developing her eye for directing commercials and has some exciting projects coming out soon.
She is currently working on writing the script to her first feature and of course, there are always more shorts ideas floating around. Her most recent acting project was The Conjuring Tapes directed by Randy Nundlall Jr. and Robert Livings.
