About Artist

BIO

Samantha Pazos is a Cuban-American director/choreographer from Miami, FL. Her roots and upbringing within a cross-cultural hub of the Americas and the Caribbean, have inevitably shaped her choreographic work, movement style, and theatre-making, creating work that touches on issues of displacement, exile, identity & language, and memory. 

Samantha holds an MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography, Florida State University . Her dance training stems from The Ailey School, José Mateo Ballet Theatre, American Dance Festival, Ballet Concerto and Patricia Penenori Dance Center. Her work has been presented at the DUMBO Dance Festival, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Asolo Rep with Sarasota Contemporary Dance, Nancy Smith Fichter Theatre (FSU), and Miami Light Project as part of Here & Now Festival, ScreenDance Miami Film Festival, and the Jerry Herman Ring Theater (UM).  

Her theater credits include: The Amparo Experience, A Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time, Godspell, A New Brain, The Frogs, Three Musketeers, Romeo & Juliet (NOLAShakes at Tulane), the 20th anniversary production of Anna in the Tropics (Miami New Drama),  Two Sisters & a Piano (Miami New Drama), and Lorca in a Green Dress (The Lillie Theater at City Theater, Pittsburgh, PA). 

Currently, Samantha is  a John Wells Directing Fellow (MFA in Directing) at Carnegie Mellon University, School of Drama.