Samantha Jane Williams is an actor, singer, mover & shaker and producer. A Bronx native, Williams was apart of the New York based non-profit company Bedlam Ensemble where she was a resident actor, producer and company manager. Her work as an actor with Bedlam includes Nothing Person@l (The Producers Club), Pieces (Roy Arias), The Delirium of Edgar Allan Poe (Altered Stages 2), Grandpa Was A Bachelor (45th Street Theatre) and ALICE (The Shell). She also produced Measure for Measure and Border Sweet Border (Access Theatre) and performs in Bedlam’s Improv Troupe, during the companies one year residency with Horse Trade Theater Company in September 2012.
Williams artistry extends passed the stage, she has done background work for Law & Order SVU and stand in work for Gabourey Sidibe on Showtime’s The Big C with Laura Linney for three consecutive seasons. She has studied method acting at The Acting Studio under James Price, participated in the Uta Hagen Summer intensive at HB Studios and performed at Broadway Dance Center, Dance New Amsterdam and The Duplex. Williams also earned her degree in theatre performance and music at SUNY New Paltz School of The Fine and Performing Arts in the Spring of 2019. During Williams training at SUNY New Paltz she performed in many productions including giving a critically acclaimed “outstanding” performance as the Lady in Green in the production of For Colored Girls That Have Considered Suicided... She currently resides in Peekskill and is a current scholarship recipient for improv/sketch comedy at UCB (losangeles.ucbtrainingcenter.com), the diversity program at The Squirrel Comedy Theatre (thesquirrelnyc.com) and performs on an improv house team, accidentalFACETIME (@accidentalFACETIMEnyc) with The Armory(thearmorycomedy.com) at The Tank Theatre (thetanknyc.org) in NYC.