Sam Given

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About me

Grateful to be an NYC-based actor, writer, collaborator.

Humor in spades, tears to boot.

Queer AF, sweet, unsuspecting, calculating, perhaps...dangerous.

This Carol Burnett in a David Bowie body loves community, challenging stereotypes and inspiring change.

Just finished making my Broadway Debut in The Inheritance and currently finishing a draft of my new play, Flinch, all about fathers and their very "colorful" sons.

Favorite TV Shows of the Pandemic: I MAY DESTROY YOU, LOOKING, QUEER AS FOLK, EUPHORIA, THE CROWN, FRIENDS FROM COLLEGE, MOM, DARK, MODERN LOVE, THE ROMANOFFS, AJ AND THE QUEEN, INSECURE, HIGH MAINTENANCE
 

TV/FILM  

Just shot a music video for RYAL's "Thunder (Solo on the Dance Floor)" and currently filming a lead role in THE KNOWING, a socially-distanced sci-fi series. Recent credits include a SONY AIBO spot, a series regular in MERCE, and LAST FERRY (NETFLIX). Continued mentorship with Heidi Marshall and Michelle Hurd. NBC DIVERSITY SHOWCASE ALUM.

THEATRE

Just made my Broadway Debut in THE INHERITANCE. Other recent credits include Emcee in CABARET, Sonya in GODSPELL, Bobby in A CHORUS LINE, Boobs in Fat Mike and Jeff Marx's HOME STREET HOME, and a National Tour as Ziggy Startdust in REBEL REBEL: DAVID BOWIE IN CONCERT 

SOLO WORK/WRITING

I've written 10-parody shows for my alter-ego Millie Grams. Toured to regional theaters across the country with Millie Grams: Make Your Own Kind Of Music, playing to audiences with little to no exposure to gay/queer stories and men in 6-inch heels. Currently writing a play under Judy Gold about me and my father called Flinch.

RESUME