passionate, industrious & amicable.

impulsive, perfectionistic & excitable.

samuel was born in midtown manhattan, the only child of a french mother who was an attorney and a norwegian-american father who was a physics teacher. as a result, sam grew up speaking english, french and norwegian though he picked up the latter in his teens and favours french out all of all of his languages. this was partially because he developed a stutter just as he started school and yet found that he rarely stuttered in french compared to when he spoke english. not long after this discovery was made another one occurred; sam’s stutter disappeared when he sang which was already something he loved to do.

middle and high school were tough, with sam frequently getting bullied or made fun of for his speech difficulties despite the progress he’d been making in speech therapy. regardless, he found solace in academic work and his favourite extra-curricular, musical theatre particularly as he progressed in therapy and stuttered less and less though it still rears its head once more at times, particularly if he’s stressed or overtired & he has always been open about it publicly throughout his career. with his interest in music ever-clear, it was no surprise when he went on to major in voice at juilliard. came out as bisexual in college after developing a huge crush on a male scene partner and discovering the label and that he had a slight preference for men, typically. by the time he’d completed his m.a in music and music education, samuel found himself joining a touring company of rent as an understudy and then roger. 

when he eventually left the tour, he was overjoyed to discover he’d managed to land another job and made his broadway debut in hairspray as link larkin. shortly after this he found himself in a job he could only have ever dreamed of; originating a role on broadway in catch me if you can. after cmiyc’s broadway run ended sam took a break from stage work to dive into screen acting, ending up playing enjolras in 2012′s les mis. with the success of les mis, sammy found himself cast in a pilot, graceland, which was then picked up for three seasons and ran until 2015.

as much as sam truly enjoyed performing on both stage and screen, over those years he’d come to the conclusion that teaching was still his true calling; the little experience he’d gathered over the course of his own education had been among the best times of his life and so he made the decision to return to teaching and began applying for music teaching jobs. after receiving an offer from a middle school in atlanta, he accepted and moved to the city without a second thought. shortly after settling in in the new city and job, sam set up his own private tutoring business, helping kids and adults with singing, piano or guitar.