Samantha Chandler

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  Samantha Chandler | Managing Director | Jen Ryle | Artistic Director
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  Samantha Chandler Managing Director, Co-Founder
  
  Samantha Chandler can remember her first time on stage at age eight. She sang "I Whistle a Happy Tune", from the King and I at the elementary school talent night. Ever since then, theater has played an important part in her life. As an adolescent it gave her the opportunity to work with adults as an equal. It is how she survived high school. It has helped her explore stories and characters both known and unknown to her.
  
  She has been a middle school teacher for the past five years, and during that time her desire to expose more young people to theater grew into the dream of opening a "children's" theater in Olympia. She is thrilled to have found Jen Ryle as a partner in making this dream a reality. She is proud to be making Olympia Family Theater the place that kids will one day remember as the first place they saw live theater.
  
  Samantha has studied performance at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, Freehold Theatre Studio in Seattle, and with the amazing members of UMO. She has directed student plays at Washington Middle School, and has performed in a number of independent theater productions in Olympia in the past decade.
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  Happily, Jen met Samantha in the spring of 2006 and they got right to work planning Olympia Family Theater.

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  Samantha Chandler
  
  Samantha Chandler Managing Director

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  Samantha Chandler Managing Director
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  Samantha Chandler, Jen Ryle, Karen Janowitz, Jane Nowitz, Ted Ryle, Sarah Jolley, Amy Agnello, Andy Gordon, Miranda Waldron

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  Samantha Chandler
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  Samantha Chandler
  
  Co-Founder, Managing Director
  
  Samantha Chandler can remember her first time on stage at age eight.She sang "I Whistle a Happy Tune", from the King and I at the elementary school talent night.Ever since then, theater has played an important part in her life.As an adolescent it gave her the opportunity to work with adults as an equal.It is how she survived high school.It has helped her explore stories and characters both known and unknown to her.
  
  She has been a middle school teacher for the past five years, and during that time her desire to expose more young people to theater grew into the dream of opening a "children's" theater in Olympia.She is thrilled to have found Jen Ryle as a partner in making this dream a reality.She is proud to be making Olympia Family Theater the place that kids will one day remember as the first place they saw live theater.
  
  Samantha has studied performance at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, Freehold Theatre Studio in Seattle, and with the amazing members of UMO.She has directed student plays at Washington Middle School, and has performed in a number of independent theater productions in Olympia in the past decade.

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  Samantha Chandler (360) 357-3871 samchan@olyft.org
  
  Sponsors Corner

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  We are also looking for individuals with technical theater skills to help with our upcoming season, so if you have any of those skills, please feel free to contact Jen (jenryle@olyft.org) or Samantha (samchan@olyft.org) and let us know how you might like to get involved this year.
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  Samantha Chandler & Jen Ryle
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  Please contact Samantha or Jen for an audition appointment.

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  Samantha Chandler, Co-Founder
  
  Samantha Chandler can remember her first time on stage at age eight.She sang "I Whistle a Happy Tune", from the King and I at the elementary school talent night.Ever since then, theater has played an important part in her life.As an adolescent it gave her the opportunity to work with adults as an equal.It is how she survived high school.It has helped her explore stories and characters both known and unknown to her.
  
  She has been a middle school teacher for the past five years, and during that time her desire to expose more young people to theater grew into the dream of opening a "children's" theater in Olympia.She is thrilled to have found Jen Ryle as a partner in making this dream a reality.She is proud to be making Olympia Family Theater the place that kids will one day remember as the first place they saw live theater.
  
  Samantha has studied performance at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, Freehold Theatre Studio in Seattle, and with the amazing members of UMO.She has directed student plays at Washington Middle School, and has performed in a number of independent theater productions in Olympia in the past decade.

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  Published on: 11/1/2007    Last Visited: 11/9/2007  

  Samantha Chandler, Secretary
  
  Olympia Education Association
  
  schandler@osd.wednet.edu

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  Samantha Chandler
  
  Board of Directors

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  Family theater group blossoms in Olympia - Living -... - [Cached Version]
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  Olympia Family Theater begins its first season Thursday night with a production of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.""One of the things I love about Olympia is there is so much theater," said company co-founder Samantha Chandler, who also teaches at Olympia's Washington Middle School."For the amount of people we have living in this town, it's amazing we have three theater companies that have full seasons.But there has been nothing just for families."When I tell people I'm doing this, parents are thrilled," she added.
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  "We could start small and build something really important.""For me as a kid, going to theater was a really powerful and important experience," Chandler said."The imagination and the creativity you see in live theater are something that's so different from videos and TV.Sitting with other people experiencing something that's only going to happen once is a very powerful experience, whether kids think of it that way or not."The new theater company, whose debut production will be at The Midnight Sun, plans a three-play season.Plans for shows and dates are still in the works, but there will be a musical next, followed by a production aimed at older children."Right now, everything is being financed out of our own pockets," Chandler said."We'll see how this play goes and then see how big the next play can be.""Alice," of course, appeals to all ages."It's appropriate for any kid who can sit still long enough to watch crazy characters and funny interactions," Chandler said.

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