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Intimacy Director, The Importance of Being Earnest; Associate Fight Director & Associate Intimacy Director, Fat Ham
Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Tempest, Revenge Song, The Importance of Being Earnest, Fat Ham; Chicago: Steppenwolf Theatre (Fool for Love); Lyric Opera of Chicago (The Flying Dutchman, Jenufa, Proximity, Rigoletto, Le Comte Ory, Carmen, Fidelio); Lookingglass Theatre (Her Honor Jane Byrne, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein). Regional: Houston Grand Opera (Breaking the Waves); Milwaukee Repertory Theatre (Eclipse); The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (Cake); Asolo Repertory Theatre (Hair); Indiana Repertory Theatre (Clue, The Folks at Home); Cincinnati Shakespeare Company (Romeo and Juliet); Indianapolis Shakespeare Company (Julius Caesar). International: Prague Shakespeare Company (40+ various Shakespeare productions). MFA from Florida Atlantic University. Certified teacher and fight director with the Society of American Fight Directors. Certified intimacy director with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators. Certified teacher with the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium. SamanthaJKaufman.com