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Samantha
has been performing on stage since
the age of two and has been
in many professional and amateur productions.
At
the age of two she started dance
classes with Sandra Taylor School of
Dance, a local dance school at
Essington in the West Midlands. She
took in her first dance show the week before her 3rd birthday and
danced in a show every year after that.
By
the age of eight, Samantha was
also taking classes at another dance
school in Willenhall, which at the
time was run by Jackie Bailey. The school
had a contract for the pantomimes
at The Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton.
Sam auditioned to be a juvenille dancer and was over the moon when
she was chosen.
Samantha
really enjoyed Panto, it was her
first professional job and only nine
years old. The pantomime was Goldilocks
and the Three Bears and it starred
Frank Bruno, Richard Cadell and Sooty,
Sophie Lawrence, Robin Askwith, Malcolm Boyden
and Charlie Cairoli. The show went on
for 3 months.
From
then on she has loved the stage,
taking every opportunity to be on
there. She joined an amateur dramatics
society for kids aged 9-21. This gave
her the opportunity to be on stage
performing in musicals. Her first appearance
with 'Youth on Stage' was in Crazy
for You at The Old Rep Theatre
in Birmingham.
A
few months later Samantha Spotted a
dance competition on Blue Peter. They
were asking you to send a video
in of yourself dancing. So that is
just what she did and she got
through to the finals in Rhyl.
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She
was then in a School Production
of Pied Piper and played the title
role. She loved singing, acting and
playing the main role for she had never
done that before and found it
a great experience.
The
following year she got into panto
again at the Grand Theatre, this
was her second professional performance.
The pantomime was Snow White and it
starred Dan Paris, Paul Hendy, The Grumbleweeds,
Nicky Diamond and Kathryn Rooney.
Sam played the young Snow White. |
She
then went into another production with
'Youth on Stage', Oliver. Samantha had her
first speaking part and although, it was
only a few lines it gave
her the confidence to have bigger parts
in other productions.
Samantha
started to do supporting artist work, her first job was on BBC'S Doctors. Over the
years she has appeared on many episodes
of Hollyoaks, CBBC'S Grange Hill and
ITV'S Midsomer Murders.
It
was panto season once again and
Sam was now eleven. That year she
took part in two pantomimes, one
amateur and one professional. She took
part in Jack and the Beanstalk
with 'Youth On Stage' where she performed
her first principle role in a
theatre as Fairy Sugardust.
She then
auditioned for Panto at the Grand
Theatre, and got in once again.
This year it was Peter Pan and
it starred Cannon and Ball, Lee Brennan,
Jane Rossington and Tony Adams.
Samantha
played Curly (a lost boy) and
her usual role, Junior Dancer.
This was her 3rd professional show.
After this, she had parts in Half
a sixpence, Me and My Girl,
Annie and two other professional
pantomimes.
She
appeared in Cinderella (age 12)
with Gary Wilmot and The Grumbleweeds
at The Grand Theatre, and Dick
Whittington (age 14) at Stafford Gatehouse
with Emmerdale's Emma Atkins, where she got her chance to
be a senior dancer.
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