ACTOR | SAG-ELIGIBLE | NEW YORK CITY
NEWS
SAMANTHA GRADUATES FROM
WILLIAM ESPER STUDIO
June 2023
Samantha enrolled in William Esper's Meisner two-year training program in January 2020 -- just shy of a couple months before the global pandemic shut everything down. Thankfully, classes were able to resume in-person in 2022 and Samantha was able to complete her training in the Meisner technique (Jennifer Monaco & Karen Chamberlain), voice & speech, the Williamson Technique (Movement), Balinese Mask, African dance, and stage combat (Sordelet Inc).
SAMANTHA IS ANNOUNCED A RESIDENT ARTIST AT CULTURE LAB LIC!
December 29, 2020
Samantha has been accepted as a resident artist at Culture Lab LIC to direct a developmental performance of a new contemporary drama: Till It Stops written by London-based playwright Sophie Max. Till It Stops examines love, codependency, and addiction in a mother-daughter relationship. The play will perform in early Spring.
SAMANTHA CAST AS LADY CAPULET IN TSMGO'S VIRTUAL 'ROMEO AND JULIET'
May 27, 2020
Samantha portrays Lady Capulet in a virtual performance of William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet.' The performance was produced by UK-based The Show Must Go Online, founded by Robert Myles. TSMGO are weekly readings of Shakespeare's plays, in the order they were believed to be written, performed by a global cast. This effort was created in less than a week in response to the global COVID19 pandemic. The performance was done live and the recording can be watched on Youtube.
SAMANTHA CO-STARS ON SEASON 2 OF FBI ON CBS!
March 10, 2020
Samantha Wendorf portrays the NYPD Officer in Season 2, Episode 17 of FBI on CBS directed by Olivia Newman.
SAMANTHA IS CAST AS ELIZABETH PROCTOR IN ARTHUR MILLER'S 'THE CRUCIBLE'
May 2-18, 2019