Neil Samuels

Mr. Samuels graduated from Vassar College with distinction in Acting and Directing in 1980. He acted in New York City for several years - joining AFTRA when he was cast in As The World Turns (1956-2010) and, as a writer, he has had five screenplays optioned. After a significant hiatus in the world of politics and marketing he has returned to his first love - acting. In 2013 he completed principal photography on Transylvanian Curse (2015), shot in Pittsburgh and starring Robert Englund and he then appeared on stage in New York at Playwrights Horizons as General William Tecumseh Sherman in the world premiere of Attila (recreating the role for the play's film adaptation - and garnering the Best Actor Award in the 2018 Bucks Fever Film Festival). His original screenplay Mindscape was a semifinalist in the 1990 Academy of Motion Pictures Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting and subsequently optioned by director Robert Ellis Miller The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968). Producers included Marcia Nasatir Ironweed (1987) and Steven Haft Dead Poets Society (1989). He has also served as a proud Board Member of the Philadelphia Local of SAG-AFTRA.