In my reviews of Titus Andonicus (Theater Artists
Olympia) and Eleemosynary at Tacoma Little Theatre I praised Samantha Camp
lavishly and deservedly:
“In playing Artie, Camp displays an amazing range of
emotion through subtle body language and facial expressions. She manages to
make the audience root for her despite her seemingly callous abandonment of her
child.”
And:
“Camp is simply amazing as Tamora — one of the two
most captivating and complex characters in the play, the other being
Saturninus. Both Camp and Jansen (Brian Jansen as Saturninus) portray
these characters with shouts and large gestures of unbridled passion, yet with
nuanced expression. Their love scenes are like mutual rape.”
In a
quieter but equally nuances performance she read the part of Beulah in a
reading from my novel Return to Freedom at Kings Books. (RtoF is the second
book in the Freedom Trilogy; Camp will read a different part in the same
scene.)
She
received her BFA in Acting from Point Park University in Pittsburgh and is a
current member of Theatre 9/12 in Seattle. She was recently seen in Spokane
with Interplayer’s production of Brighton
Beach Memoirs as Kate Jerome and at Olympia’s Harlequin Productions, as a
Priest in Jesus Christ Superstar.
Other recent roles include Artie in
Eleemosynary, Adelaide (Guys and
Dolls), April Green (The Hot L
Baltimore), Cathy (The Last 5 Years) and Tamora (Titus
Andronicus). Next
up will be King Lear at Key City
Public Theatre as Goneril. Samantha is a soap goddess/store owner (Pip &
Lola’s Everything Homemade in Tacoma) in real life. Check out www.samanthacamp.net or become her fan on
Facebook. Thanks, as always, to her husband Bruce for the pomegranates.
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