Samantha Herrera(I)
- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Born & raised in New York City, Samantha began studying drama as an actor at LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.
Her parents emigrated from the Philippines both as accountants and settled in Queens, New York. While attending the City University of Hunter College, she worked as a Production Stage Manager for the successful run of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge along with performing in countless productions including: Antigone, God's Ear, The 5th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide, She Has a Name and A Midsummer Night's Dream. She also helped spearhead the MFA playwriting festival with playwrights-in-residence, Annie Baker and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
Her theater training continued at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre ('16) and London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (Summer Shakespeare Course, '18). A week after graduating conservatory, she booked her first tv appearance on Marvel's Iron Fist.
Samantha has directed for both theater and film. Tales of a Shadowboxer marks her directorial debut in collaboration with producer/writer Sharif McFadden which won Best TV Pilot and Best Woman Short at Independent Shorts Award (Los Angeles).
She hosted the first recorded backstage Q&A with Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival 2019 and has been on the panel of judges for LADFF. A mental health advocate, she was a speaker at the MINDS Foundation's first public-gathering in Los Angeles to honor World Mental Health Day.
Aside from acting, she is yoga certified and has taught classes all over New York City and Los Angeles.
She is also a writer and avid traveler.
Her parents emigrated from the Philippines both as accountants and settled in Queens, New York. While attending the City University of Hunter College, she worked as a Production Stage Manager for the successful run of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge along with performing in countless productions including: Antigone, God's Ear, The 5th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide, She Has a Name and A Midsummer Night's Dream. She also helped spearhead the MFA playwriting festival with playwrights-in-residence, Annie Baker and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
Her theater training continued at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre ('16) and London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (Summer Shakespeare Course, '18). A week after graduating conservatory, she booked her first tv appearance on Marvel's Iron Fist.
Samantha has directed for both theater and film. Tales of a Shadowboxer marks her directorial debut in collaboration with producer/writer Sharif McFadden which won Best TV Pilot and Best Woman Short at Independent Shorts Award (Los Angeles).
She hosted the first recorded backstage Q&A with Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival 2019 and has been on the panel of judges for LADFF. A mental health advocate, she was a speaker at the MINDS Foundation's first public-gathering in Los Angeles to honor World Mental Health Day.
Aside from acting, she is yoga certified and has taught classes all over New York City and Los Angeles.
She is also a writer and avid traveler.