Sam Scalamoni
Director/Choreographer
Mr. Scalamoni celebrates his 17th year of directing in 2000. He is currently Artistic Producing Director of the Hackmatack Playhouse in Maine where he has directed critically acclaimed productions of La Cage aux Folles, West Side Story, Jesus Christ Superstar, Singin' in the Rain, Phantom, Tommy , Tintypes, and Annie, among others.
As Managing Artistic Director of The Arts Trust, a non-profit arts organization in New Jersey, he directed their premiere production of Three Faces of Love. Off Broadway, he has directed 6 NYC premieres at The Theatre-Studio Inc., including the world premiere of Driftwood by playwright Lauri MacMillan. He directed the premiere of Attack of the Elvis Impersonators at the John Houseman Studio Theatre on Theatre Row for AMAS Musical Theatre. Mr. Scalamoni was the resident director of the Manhattan College Players for 4 years, directing: Into the Woods, Cuckoo's Nest, She Loves Me, Godspell, The Crucible, Once Upon a Mattress, and Company. He has served as guest director at Longwood College in Virginia, directing The Mikado and Big River. At University Theatre at Yale University, he directed Hair, directed an original adaptation of A Christmas Carol at Rochester Opera House in New Hampshire. At the Bickford Theatre in New Jersey, he directed a production of Dracula.
Mr. Scalamoni's Broadway credits include starring as Cyrano in the lavish Cyrano the Musical at the Neil Simon Theatre, and 2 � years in the musical sensation Les Miserables at both The Broadway and Imperial Theatres, where he served as Dance Captain. He has toured the USA as "Enjolras" and "Jean Poiviere" in Les Miserables and starred as "Pippin" with Ben Vereen. In 1995, Mr. Scalamoni starred Off-Broadway as "Shabbatai" in the original rock musical Shabbatai at the American Jewish Theatre. He appeared as "Mr. Wells" on the NBC daytime drama Another World.