Samantha learned how to Stage Manage at Joliet Junior College, management credits there include: The Tenacity of Just Seeming, and Samuel Beckett’s: Beckett Bites. She brought her love, knowledge, and tight-calling skills with her to Monmouth, and as a transfer student in her first semester at Monmouth, she stage managed the first Main Stage production of the year; Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Samantha eventually took a formal Stage Management class with Todd Quick in the Spring of 2023, and Stage Managed her last Main Stage production of undergrad in the Fall of 2024; Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice.