Samantha Adams

For the National:

Training

Samantha Adams is a registered HCPC dramatherapist, creative arts supervisor and former actor. She graduated from the University of Roehampton with a Masters in Dramatherapy.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: War Horse (2024 tour), The Hot Wing King, Mnemonic (2024), a co-production with Complicité, Othello and Trouble in Mind

In London’s West End: Dr Semmelweis at Harold Pinter

Other theatre includes multiple collaborations with the Old Vic, Bristol Old Vic and Kiln Theatre.

Samantha Adams works with Rutgers University students at Shakespeare’s Globe. Samantha Adams teaches Therapeutic Stories and Ritual Theatre at Roehampton University and is a visiting lecturer at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. For the past several years she has been the lead practitioner of the Health and Wellbeing course at Clean Break Theatre Company. Her academic research includes the intersection between the role of Artist and Arts for Health.

(Updated July 2024)