Samantha Ginn

Samantha Ginn is an American actress, stage director, and playwright who directed a production of The Roommate (2023), appeared in productions of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2013), Well (2017), The Mineola Twins (2021), and won a Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play, Female for her role as Cari Lee in Hickorydickory (2012).

Personal life

Ginn was born to Twila Ginn and grew up in New Jersey and Carlsbad, California. She began acting when she was 12, following diagnosis of Osgood–Schlatter disease which prevented her from pursuing a career as an athlete. Ginn attended La Costa Canyon High School and was a drama major at Sonoma State University. She later moved to University Heights, San Diego.

Career

Ginn worked as a special needs teacher for preschoolers in Solana Beach, California. She auditioned for The Real World and in 2011, Ginn founded Circle Circle Dot Dot, a theater production company in San Diego. In 2012, she won a Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play, Female for her role as Cari Lee in Hickorydickory. In 2016, Ginn wrote "Giovanni & Charlie", one part of three 12 minute plays titled Bedrooms and Boyfriends for San Diego International Fringe Festival in which she shares a Best Writing Award with Michael Mizerany and Jonathan Hammond. Ginn later starred as the titular character in Hammond's short film Kathy.

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