Samara Lerman

Samara Lerman in particular does standout work in what could have been a truly thankless role as Myriad, acting out the same scenes with minor tweaks each time, but her expressions and timing make it a treat to watch as the truth of her reality slowly dawns on her. -The Geekiary The Gamers: Hands of Fate

Such economy requires strong, forceful performances... Lerman, with her deep, mellifluous voice and aristocratic beauty, seems born to play Anna. -Seattle Weekly Anna Karenina

Samara Lerman brought down the house with her performance as perhaps the least-talented ecdysiast in the history of the world. -Seattleactor.com A Confederacy of Dunces

Exemplary -Seattle Weekly Cloud 9

Samara Lerman turns the servant Tranio into a neat bit of deception and gives that subplot a bit more oomph than past productions of Shrew. -Seattle Theater Examiner The Taming of the Shrew

The emotional heart of the play... ...whip-smart, sarcasm-slinging women who aren't fooled by jewelry and a poem. Everything from their body language to their expressions and tone ooze confidence and make their comic and intellectual sparring with the young men both entertaining and substantive. -CityArts Magazine Love's Labour's Lost

Lerman's Duchess rescues the adaptation from the brink of disaster. The terrific urgency she brings to her role expresses the core matter and meaning of Webster's play... Even as her character is being strangled to death, Lerman's face glows like something good that's going to happen. -The Stranger The Duchess of Malfi

skillfully spirited -Seattle Times The Merchant of Venice

Samara Lerman is hilarious both as Darlene the sleazy barmaid and as Myrna Minkoff, Ignatius' radical college sweetheart -The Seattle Diaries A Confederacy of Dunces

Samara Lerman... If you follow her trajectory, her giving up her master to his love is one of the little heroisms in this version. -Seattle Gay News The Taming of the Shrew