Sam is grateful to have served as the Associate Director of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast for Disney Theatrical Group since 2001. He has supervised the show on Broadway and mounted two US tours. Internationally he has mounted and supervised companies in Korea, Japan, China, Brazil, Australia, two tours in the United Kingdom, and an international tour. The show has taken him to six of the seven continents. He has also directed Beauty regionally for the Ogunquit Playhouse, North Carolina Theatre and The Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. Sam is the director of the critically acclaimed National Tour of Elf the Musical, which has toured domestically since 2012, playing multiple engagements in NYC at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Sam developed and directed the world premiere of the award-winning musical A Thousand Faces at the Encore Musical Theatre, based on the life of film legend Lon Chaney, the world premiere National Tour of the musical Noel with book by best-selling author of the Artemis Fowl book series, Eoin Colfer, and developed and directed the new family musical, The Elf on the Shelf; A Christmas Musical. Sam is developing a new musical, Unbelievable, about American baseball legend Jackie Mitchell and a miniseries based on her titled Jackie, baseball’s forgotten legend. Sam also developed and directed the National Tour of Storytime Live! for Nickelodeon, which broke box office records at Radio City Music Hall and a tour of The Gazillion Bubble Show. Sam directed and collaborated with Alan Menken on two workshops of the Broadway musical Leap of Faith, he co-created and directed the developmental workshop of Mulan Jr. for Disney Theatrical Group and Music Theatre International, and a workshop presentation of Sense and Sensibility at Playwrights Horizons. Sam is a founding member and currently serves as the Artistic Director of Skyline Theatre Company, a professional non-profit theatre company in New Jersey.