Sam Breen

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><div style="background-color: transparent; "><span id="internal-source-marker_0.40047044260427356" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Sam was born in Tucson, Arizona (U.S.A) and grew up in a small mountain village near Geneva, Switzerland. Early on he became passionate about being on the road. By the time he reached the 7th grade he had traveled around Eastern Africa and all over Asia accompanying his mother who was a documentary filmmaker for the United Nations. Early on he began thinking of himself as a citizen of the world and decided that his future would involve breaking out of his comfort zone and creating community away from home. </span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Sam moved to Boston in the summer of 2000 and interned at Harvard University’s graduate theater program. He performed in his first professional play at Harvard’s American Repertory Theater (alongside Mirjana Jokovic and directed by János Szász). In theater he’d found a universal language and a means of transcending cultural boundaries. </span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">He went on to pursue his university studies in New Jersey, Costa Rica, and Chile-- earning his bachelors in philosophy and acting in plays along the way. Out of university he moved back to Switzerland. He worked as a Spanish-speaking advisor to wealthy Latin American clients at a private bank before returning the U.S. to follow his dreams of becoming a stage actor. </span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">At CalArts for his Masters in theater, he acted in many exciting plays-- leaning towards edgy characters who exhibited slightly psychotic tendencies. &nbsp;In his last year he began curating an arts project of his own on campus. Profoundly marked by his mother’s forced evacuation from her home in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina decimated the city, Sam was interested in creating a project that reflected his family’s nomadic reality. He purchased a vintage silver-bullet trailer and set out to turn it into a mobile performance/gallery space for art-work that explores the relationship between home and identity. His work became The Trailer Trash Project -- a nomadic motley crew of artists who perform throughout Southern California in a 1951 Spartan trailer. </span><br></div></span><br>In September 2011, Sam and his Trailer Trash Project will inhabit a gallery space at the International arts festival at PACT Zollverein in Essen, Germany...<br></span>

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