Theatrical
Actress
Samantha Calatozzo Cobb
is a professional actor & director in Dallas with a BFA in Theater. She has performed with Nashville Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Dallas, Theatre Frisco, The Walt Disney Company, Richardson Theatre Center, Shakespeare Everywhere, and more.
She is also the Executive Artistic Director and a founding board member of Plague Mask Players.
Mary Ralston U/S & Female Understudy (Lead)
Death/Take:! at Pegasus Theatre (2025)
Performing for three shows as the female lead in a 1930s/1940s radio play-transatlantic accents and all!
“The year is 1938. After getting trapped on a cruise liner with Harry and Nigel, Lt Foster and his friends end up in Egypt. Naturally they soon stumble across trouble. Inside the pyramid our intrepid trio has entered, an action-adventure movie is being shot. The hapless film director (Edward Harper), the famous action-adventure star (Monte Riggs), and his leading lady (Mary Ralston) are being bullied by the acid-tongued and all-powerful screenwriter (Lawrence Alexander). With tension thick in the air, it isn’t long before someone snaps and someone eats a lead sandwich! Harry, Nigel, and Foster have to solve this nefarious crime before the killer strikes again! And will Harry ever get that film role he so desperately pursues? Join us for a RadioVizion(R) presentation of this comedy-murder mystery, where you are the studio audience for a live radio broadcast!
What is RadioVizion®?
RadioVizion® is an alternative technique devised by Pegasus Theatre for the presentation of the Living Black & White® series of Harry Hunsacker adventures. RadioVizion® does not employ the trade-secret makeup but instead focuses on evoking the experience and glamour of being in a live radio studio of the 1930s and 1940s. Live sound effects, actors using period-style live microphones, and costumes suggestive of the era complete the effect. Join us for a RadioVizion® presentation of this comedy-murder mystery, where you are the studio audience for a “live” radio broadcast!”
Biondello (Featured)
The Taming of the Shrew at AT&T Performing Arts Center
with Plague Mask Players & Pegasus Theatre in Living Black & White (TM) (2024)
”Samantha Calatozzo Cobb’s somewhere between Judy Holliday in “Born Yesterday” and Guys and Doll’s Miss Adelaide as Biondello and constantly gives off comedy sparks.” - Doug Sturdivant, DFW Center Stage
“Cobb is hilarious as busy Biondello, whose high voice and pitter-pat steps don’t stop her from getting there first with the news.” - Jan Farrington, Onstage NTX
Gloria (Lead)
Boeing Boeing at Richardson Theatre Center (2023)
"I cannot remember the last time I laughed so happily, so loud, for so long. The timing is flawless, the absurdity pervasive, the jabs at sex, wicked, the physical hi-jinks, unbelievable. Ms. Oswald has taken this frantic, antic, delirious cast, Samantha Calatozzo (Gloria) Eddy Herring (Bernard) Molly Bower (Berthe) Blair Mitchell (Robert) Shea McMillan (Gabriella) and Hannah Burns (Gretchen) and created a marvel of mischief, mania, merriment and giddy guffaws. Any actor knows that this kind of brilliance only comes from hard work, focus, and summoning the audacity you need to light the candle." -Christopher Soden, Sharp Critic
Lady Capulet (Supporting)
Romeo & Juliet at Bath House Cultural Center
with Plague Mask Players (2023)
"Samantha Calatozzo Cobb does a great job swanning around as the elegant Lady Capulet. She navigates the rough terrain between the Lady’s duty to her husband and (limited) sympathy for Juliet. "
Ann Saucer, The Column
"Cobb, looking regal in pearls and a chic wardrobe, showed a remarkable range of emotion from glee to grief"
Doug Sturdivant, DFW Center Stage
Madeline (Lead)
Children of the Night at Maintstage Irving/Las Colinas
with Prost Stage Productions & Mainstage Irving/Las Colinas (2022)
"Madeline (Samantha Calatozzo Cobb) seems to be the firebrand of the family. Hotheaded? Ready to fight to protect her family? Madeline is openly sultry, though it’s hard to know if that’s for mating or pleasure. Finding a mate for her has a black widow quality – the mate’s future is always in doubt. Madeline is a fighter, good with a sword, so Cobb got to play several sword fights with potential enemies, even a suitor or two. There was no fight director listed, though Cobb’s bio indicated some practice at this. Her fights were quick and effective, and she was able to put her full body and character into her fights, something often missing in more technical fighters. She showed a stage fighter is first an actor." -Charlie Bowles, The Column
Caitlin (Supporting)
Over The River And Through The Woods at Theatre Frisco (2022)
“The only “outsider” to the family is Caitlin, played to the hilt by Samantha Calatozzo Cobb. Caitlin is the “secret weapon” in the grandparents’ attempt to get Nick not to move to Seattle, a friend of Emma’s who is thrust into the Sunday family dinner without Nick’s knowledge. Cobb plays Caitlin as a smart, streetwise local girl who isn’t afraid of falling in love, but it has to be on her terms: with Nick planning to leave, she isn’t willing to take a chance on him. Cobb and Tabor, like the rest of this exceptional cast, have great chemistry, and it is to her credit that we are definitely rooting for them to get together.” -Carol Rice, The Column
Theatrical Origins
The first professional gig booked was the Nashville Shakespeare Festival 2014-2015 season as Phoebe in ‘As You Like It’ and Olivia’s Handmaiden in ‘Twelfth Night’.
