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Vera
Samuels

Actor / Singer / Really Really Really Really Good Mover

up next:

A Christmas Carol as Mrs Fezziwig

National Tour (West Coast company)

Entertainment Central Productions

November & December 2026

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About Me

I'm Vera and I do theatre because I love it. Sometimes I'm even good at it. 

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Native Floridian, vintage lover, sleep enthusiast, beginner gardener, cake and cookie decorator

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Accolades

  • Talent Scholarship to Florida School of the Arts

  • Irene Ryan Award nomination - Rita La Porta in Lucky Stiff

  • Best Actress in a Play nomination - Herald Tribune's Handy Awards - Vanda in Venus in Fur

  • Best Featured Actress in a Musical nomination - Herald Tribune's Handy Awards - Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain

  • Best Actress - Florida Theatre Conference - Hamlet in Hamlet POV

  • Excellence in Acting Award - Southeastern Theatre Conference - Hamlet in Hamlet POV

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press

Baker's Wife

"Vera Samuels, as Hamlet, is a gifted actress who will leave you wanting more of the Shakespearean experience. Her delivery is powerful and riveting."

OUR TOWN SARASOTA by Val Walters

Hamlet (Hamlet)

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"Samuels has no fear as an actress, whether it's spewing profanity or insults or wearing barely-there slinky undergarments and thigh-high boots. But it's her commanding attitude that draws us into her performance."

HERALD TRIBUNE by Jay Handelman

Venus in Fur (Vanda)

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"...but Vera Samuels as the doomed Justine is even better, making the shift from a dry humor at the outset to true pathos at the end."

ARTS SARASOTA by Kay Kipling

Frankenstein (Justine)

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"Ms. Samuels cleverly made Lina Lamont the voice you loved to hate."

BROADWAYWORLD.COM by Carolan Trbovich

Singin' in the Rain (Lina Lamont)

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"Samuels is outstanding as Brice. It's a sweet characterization without a hint of second-hand Streisand. (Samuels' sweetness also fills me with cognitive dissonance. She was terrifying in the lead role of Venus in Fur at Venice Theatre. I suppose that just shows her range.) Samuels is particularly funny in the 'His Love Makes Me Beautiful' number, where she sabotages Flo Ziegfeld's sentimentality with a cheeky gag. Samuels delivers a star performance."

YOUROBSERVER.COM by Marty Fugate

Funny Girl (Fanny Brice)

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"...and then literally stunned by Samuels, who turns in a performance that was more Janis Joplin than Joplin herself may have been, right down to the swig from a hidden flask after 'Me and Bobby McGee.' While Joplin died long before Samuels was even born, Samuels nailed her."

VENICE GONDOLIER by Kim Cool

Beehive: The 60's Musical (Janis Joplin)

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