ABOUT ME

Samcori is an award-winning genre bending Singer/Songwriter, Multi-instrumentalist, Audiobook Narrator and Voice Actor.  She writes quirky, romantic, soulful, sexy music for the people of Tacoma, WA; fan favorites include “Douche Bag”, “Dad Bod”, “Oh, Lucy”, “Douche Bag the Sequel”, and “Moby Dick”. She recently opened for Crash Test Dummies at The Lincoln Theater, and won "Best Hip Hop Artist" and "Best Up and Coming Artist" in the Washington Independent Music Awards.  Her song “Douche Bag” was recently chosen for the Autumn 2024 anthology of poetry of, about, or inspired by Tacoma, entitled “Voices of Tacoma: A Gathering of Poets”. 

Sam is trained in the Meisner Technique from Bay Area Acting Studio and has narrated over a dozen full-length audiobooks.  She studied voiceover at Voice One San Francisco with Bob Bergen, Aliki Theofilopoulous, Marc Graue, Melissa Hutchison, Jim Edgar, and Sally Clawson.  Sam holds a B.A. in Theater and Music from The Evergreen State College, where she trained with opera star Cyndia Sieden and directed an award-winning production of The Vagina Monologues, among other theater productions.  She has also starred in shows in San Francisco at New Conservatory Theatre Center, PianoFight, Flight Deck and Piedmont Center for the Arts where she performed and co-directed with Metropolitan Opera Director, Jonathan Khuner.  Her favorite role of all time is The Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods.