BIO

Sam is a director who loves to tell compelling stories that move audiences on stage and screen. His work has been seen by audiences across the United States and worldwide, focusing on developing and creating new work while breathing new life into classics.

Sam is the director of the critically acclaimed National Tour of Elf the Musical, which has toured domestically since 2012, playing the Theatre at Madison Square Garden and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Sam has a wonderful relationship with the classic musical Disney’s Beauty and the Beast having served as Associate Director for Disney Theatrical Group since 2001. He has supervised the show on Broadway and mounted multiple companies globally. He has also directed “Beauty” regionally for the Ogunquit Playhouse, North Carolina Theatre and The Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma.

Sam has developed and directed the world premiere of the award-winning musical A Thousand Faces at the Encore Musical Theatre, based on the life of film legend Lon Chaney, the world premiere National Tour of the musical Noel with book by best-selling author of the Artemis Fowl book series, Eoin Colfer, and developed and directed the new family musical, The Elf on the Shelf; A Christmas Musical. Sam is developing a new musical, Unbelievable, about American baseball legend Jackie Mitchell and a miniseries based on her titled Jackie, baseball’s forgotten legend. Sam also developed and directed the National Tour of Storytime Live! for Nickelodeon, which broke box office records at Radio City Music Hall and a tour of The Gazillion Bubble Show.

Sam directed and collaborated with Alan Menken on two workshops of the Broadway musical Leap of Faith, he co-created and directed the developmental workshop of Mulan Jr. for Disney Theatrical Productions and Music Theatre International, a workshop presentation of Sense and Sensibility at Playwrights Horizons, workshops of the musical At the Back of the North Wind at the National Arts Club and The Village Theatre, a workshop of The New Picasso at New World Stages, Treaty 321! at the Lucille Lortel, and Fidelity Futurestage with Peter Gallagher at New World Stages.

Sam directed a critically acclaimed production of Murder For Two at WHAT on Cape Cod and Les Miserables at Cortland Rep., winning the SALT Award for Best Director of a Musical along with Best Musical of the Year. He also won the Broadway World Award for Best Director of a Play for his direction of Agatha Christie’s An Unexpected Guest also at CRT.

Sam is a founding member and currently serves as the Artistic Director of Skyline Theatre Company, a professional non-profit theatre company in New Jersey where he lives with his family.