Samantha Rose Cárdenas

June 2023

Samantha Rose Cárdenas is a critically-acclaimed bicoastal actress in the Bay Area and New York City. She most recently played Cinderella in Into the Woods (The Mountain Play) and Young Sally in Follies (SF Playhouse). Favorite roles include Woman #1 in I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street (San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle nomination), Olive Ostrovsky in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (TBA Award finalist), Nina in In the Heights (TBA Award), Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Maria in West Side Story (TBA Award finalist), Ariel in The Little Mermaid, Mallory and Avril in City of Angels (SFBATCC Award), Anne Egerman in A Little Night Music, Emily Webb in Our Town, and Heather Duke in Heathers: The Musical (TBA Award). Samantha is also a private voice teacher and performance/audition coach accepting new students from anywhere in the world. “For Mom.” Website: www.samantharosecardenas.com. IG: @samantharosecardenas