Samantha Maneschi

Samantha Maneschi is a Brazilian actress from São Paulo. Her great grandparents were Italian and she lived in Italy for 3 years. She is native speaker in Portuguese and Italian and also speaks English and French. She is certified in 2018 in The Meisner Approach to Acting at the University of Richmond from the True Acting Institute with Larry Silverberg, a student of Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in NY. In São Paulo, she graduated from the Faculty of Communication and Arts of the Body at PUC-SP and from the professionalizing theater school Indac. In Italy, she is trained at the "Corso di Perfezionamento dai Testi alla Scena" at the University of Messina. In 2019 she opened Viva Cena Viva, her Meisner studio in São Paulo, where she teaches the technique. In 2020 she participated in the first online module with Ranjiv Perera, Meisner's training at the school "Sanford Meisner Center" in Los Angeles, founded by Meisner himself. Actress since 1995 her most recent works were the protagonist and casting coach of the medium length film "Às Três" (At Three) an independent project by Samantha, directed by Isabela Cersosimo and written by Samantha and Isabela, based on the Meisner Technique; the online monologue done during the pandemic "Women's from Spoon River"; the play "The Contemporary woman's Treat" by Juliana Gonçalves; the play "The Stroger" by August Strindberg and the short film "The Mosquito" by Beatriz Sampaio and Isabel Praxedes. She worked as an actress and casting coach at the Brazilian feature film "Fogaréu" by Flávia Neves. She won Best Actress at the BIFF in Sweden with the film "At Three".