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I'm an actor, voice and dialect coach, and teacher currently based out of Knoxville, TN, where I'm pursuing my MFA in Acting at the University of Tennessee in partnership with the Clarence Brown Theatre.

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My professional life so far has taken me onstage in plays, musicals, cabarets, and new works, into literary offices, and behind the table as a voice and dialect coach and a director of TYA tours. I've also been lucky enough to teach, working with students from ages 8 to 80 at all experience levels on playwriting, voice, speech, and dialects, and acting.​

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In all my work, I'm searching at the intersection of careful craft and carefree chaos - there's a spark of life there that you can't beat. Everything from sweet to salty, from dark to light, cruelty to compassion, or in other words... Humanity.

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Beyond the work? I'm a retired artisanal baker, book lover, video game lover, Virgo, plant parent, cilantro-averse clown. And a million other things besides.

Let's tell stories together.

©2022 by Sammy Pontello.

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