Theatre

She also served as an Executive Member of BADTH from 2018–2022. Samantha Adams was a performer for over 25 years before retraining. Having graduated from the University of Roehampton with a Masters in Dramatherapy in 2016, she was invited back to teach as a Visiting Lecturer in 2017 and continues to teach the Therapeutic Stories Unit, annually.

Samantha Adams has a small private practice in London and continues to perform occasionally for purposes of research. She works as Lead Practitioner of the Health and Wellbeing course at Clean Break Theatre Company. Previous experience includes several years in a primary SEBD School, St Mungo’s Homeless Charity, and two years on an NHS Acute Mental Health Wards with men and women.

Currently, she is also working with several theatre companies and institutions including the National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe and Bristol School of Acting. Her academic research interests include ritual theatre performance, pedegogy of storytelling and generational trauma in relation to colonialism and the Transatlantic slave trade, as well as restorative theatre practice. Samantha Adams is currently setting up her own consultancy.

(Updated November 2022)