Make it Samsational.
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Sam Biondolillo
CO-PRESIDENT
Sam Biondolillo is a New York City based designer, producer, and theatrical investor originally from the beautiful mountains of Vermont.
Sam is Co-President of the Tony winning producing organization Samsational Entertainment and CEO/President of Mckenzie Theatrical, a group dedicated to producing and managing investments for theatrical productions in New York and abroad with a focus on education for new investors.
Sam is also the Owner/Manager of SJB Production Services, providing corporate design services and theater renovation consultation, including the multi-million dollar renovation of the Arrow Street Arts theaters in Cambridge, MA.
Producing credits include:
The Frogs (Co-Producer, Off-West End, Brilliance (Co-Producer, In-Development). Mckenzie Theatrical investment projects include Next to Normal (2024 West End), Gutenberg (2023 Broadway), and Sweeney Todd (2023 Broadway Revival)
Sam’s design credits include
Broadway Tours:
Ms. Doubtfire (1st National, Assit.), Beetlejuice (1st National, Assit.).
Off-Broadway:
I Ought to Be In Pictures (Projections), Love + Science(Lighting), How to Live (Lighting), Brilliance (Lighting), Brecht on Brecht (Projections), Geek! The Musical (Lighting), New York Dance & Musical Festival (Lighting).
Regional Theatre Lighting:
Funny Girl (Maine State Music Theatre), Footloose (Timberlake Playhouse), Cabaret, Rocky Horror Show, For the Fish (Moonbox Productions); Roe, Blood at the Root, Shakespeare in Love, Henry IV Parts 1+2 (Connecticut Repertory Theatre); The Prom, Three Sisters/Four Women, The Addams Family, Les Filles du Quoi, The Hundred Acre Woods, The Complete History of Comedy, Abridged (Lost Nation Theater); Annapurna, The Pitman Painters, Private Lives (Vermont Stage). Dance Lighting: The Nutcracker 2019-2023, Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella (Ballet Theatre Company); Charles River Ballet Workshop 2019-2022 (CRBA); Urban Nutcracker 2018-2024 (Assoc, City Ballet of Boston); New York City Dance Alliance Nationals 2018-2019/2023 (Assoc, NYCDA).
Opera Lighting:
Yale Opera Scenes 2023-2024, The Little Prince (Longy Opera).
TV Broadcast & Special Events:
The Golden Eagle Awards (Boston College); A Night With Ekhart Tolle (Boston Wang Theatre); Associate Lighting Director for multiple projects with ESM productions, including events for the MLB Players Association, RocNation United Justice Coalition, and The White House Educational FrontiersConference hosted by President Obama (ESM/RocNation), Ice Chips: Show of Champions (Assoc, Skating Club of Boston).
International:
Brecht on Brecht (Projections, Japan); Geek! The Musical (Lighting, Scotland); Despertares 2022 (Lighting Supervisor, Mexico City).
Sam is a proud member of IATSE USA 829. He holds an MFA in Design from the University of Connecticut and a BA in Theatre Arts from Boston College.
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Sam Houlihan
CO-PRESIDENT & CEO
Sam is a TONY Award winning producer who is...also originally from the beautiful mountains of Vermont!
Broadway Producing Credits: Our Town (2024-2025), Merrily We Roll Along (2023-2024), Gutenberg! The Musical! (2023-2024), Hell's Kitchen as a member of Score 3 Partners (2024-present).
Off-West End Producing: Producer, The Frogs (2025).
Sam is also the Business Manager of SJB Production Services, providing corporate design services and theater renovation consultation, including the multi-million dollar renovation of the Arrow Street Arts theaters in Cambridge, MA.
Previous Work: Production Coordinator at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Assistant at Stone Productions on Wicked, Kimberly Akimbo, and TopDog UnderDog; Assistant Production Manager at Monica Moore Productions; Script Production Assistant at Kimberly Akimbo onBroadway; Assistant Production Manager at Williamstown Theatre Festival on Alien/Nation; Production Electrician for Ithaca College’s 126th Commencement.
Sam earned his Bachelor of the Fine Arts in Theatre Production & Design from Ithaca College. While Sam was a student he worked as the Teacher and Office Assistant to Professor Amanda Spooner for the B.F.A. Stage Management; Light Shop Assistant; Production Electrician for The One Act Play Festival; Moving Light Programmer for RENT; Production Electrician for The Trojan Women Project; Head Electrician for Everybody.
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Grace Cutler
OPERATIONS ASSISTANT
Grace Cutler is a New York City based Director, Assistant Director, and Producer’s Assistant. From Long Island, NY, Grace recently graduated from Boston College with a degree in Economics and Theatre, as well as a Dance minor.
Assistant Directing credits include Our Class and Merchant of Venice with Classic Stage Company (dir. Igor Golyak), August Rush with The Orchard Project (dir. Nick Blaemire), Edge of the World with Classic Stage Company (dir. Nick Blaemire), Thirst with Lyric Stage Company of Boston (dir. Courtney O’Connor), and POTUS with SpeakEasy Stage Company (dir. Paula Plum).
Grace also frequently assists the general management operations for openings, daily upkeep, and closings of productions recently including Romeo + Juliet, Sunset Blvd, Cabaret, Suffs, Some Like It Hot, the Dear Evan Hansen National Tour, Prima Facie, A Doll’s House, and more, with 101 Productions Ltd.
Grace is excited to be assisting Samsational Entertainment, and has previous producing experience working with Concord Theatricals on projects including the Broadway Cast Album recording session of Into The Woods, The Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, Company, and Hadestown. https://www.gracecutler.com/
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Dan Haley, Esq.