NYC-based Actor and Performer
Upcoming Projects
Roots2
Movement based/Physical Theater poetry piece
Currently being workshopped Spring to Summer 2025
Industry presentation in the Fall 2025
Boat of Hope: Un Barcó de Papel at The Tank
Devised piece : Music, acting, puppetry, movement
USE’s Speak ART 2025 mainstage, ‘Boat of Hope: Un Barco de Papel’ is a one-night theatrical event that explores the role of art and hope as resistance through poetry, music, movement, and puppetry. Join us as we journey through song and rhyme toward hope when it seems difficult to come by.
CAST: LOUR, Mayah Lourdes Burke, Samia Omari, Chris Browne Valenzuela
DIRECTOR/FACILITATOR: Zeynep Akça
STAGE MANAGER: Nathan Rodríguez
Get your tickets: https://usespeakart2025.eventbrite.com
READING: A Strange Union, by Tyler Plasio
Playing at Theater for the New City, NYC – August 28, 2025, at 6:30 PM – Tickets and details
TNC’s New City, New Blood Reading Series presents ‘A Strange Union,’ a play written and directed by Tyler Plosia. The narrative unfolds on an NJ transit train, where three strangers meet. Two of them engage in a unique, performative connection by pretending to be a married couple, while the third character becomes a nuisance.
Tales & Songs: ODUDUWA at FlyNYC Festival
With African Theater, Inc, as part of the Summer on the Hudson events, at Riverside Park, NYC, August 16th at 12pm – Pier i at W 70th Street NYC
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Speak, Sahara, Speak – July 28 – Aug 2, 2025
Samia is playing Afri in the premiere of Speak, Sahara, Speak by Taiwo Aloba at the New York Theater Festival at the Hudson Guild Theater.
Speak, Sahara, Speak explores themes of identity, resilience, and womanhood through a vivid, multidisciplinary narrative shaped by music, poetry, and ensemble storytelling.
more info → tickets →
MacShhh! March 20, 2025
For Bard’s Sake. Every night is a different take on one of Shakespeare’s greats (and not so greats) as four of the most charismatic nerds you’ve ever met try to entertain you, educate you, and make you hate English literature just a little bit less. Funny, frantic, and fourth-wall-shattering.
Praise to be Bard!
more info → tickets →
Ham.Net – Feb 1, 2025
2025 Fundraising Livestream for Hamlet Isn’t Dead Shakespeare Company
Join us on Twitch for a raucous staged reading of Hamlet like you’ve never seen it before…because YOU control the story! Now featuring Choose-Your-Own Hamlet!!
Antony & Cleopatra
Samia is understudying Cleopatra in Hamlet Isn’t Dead 2023-24 Season Production.
more info →
Voiceover – Nike x Rebel Girls
Samia narrated the podcast episode dedicated to Founé Diawara.
When she was barred from playing professionally because she wore a hijab, Founé founded Les Hijabeuses. Today, Founé leads the fight for freedom on and off the pitch.
more info →
Telemundo Upfronts 2023
Performance at Telemundo Upfronts presentation 2023 with R.Evolucion Latina and Salgado Productions.
MatchLIT: Romeo & Juliet
Catch Match: Lit’s Romeo & Juliet BARDCore, October 2nd at 7pm at Jake’s Dilemna, NYC.
6 actors adaptation. Samia plays Benvolio and Friar Lawrence. Directed by Charlie Rodriguez
Round The Block – TheaterLab
August 2022
Walking Art Tour of the Garnment District with TheaterLab
Telemundo Upfronts 2022
Performance at Telemundo Upfronts presentation 2022 with R.Evolucion Latina and Salgado Productions.
MatchLIT: MacBeth
June 2022
Match: Lit’s Presents: Macbeth BARDCore, October 5th at 7pm at Q.E.D. Astoria, NY. Samia will be playing Second Witch and other roles.
Directed by Charlie Rodriguez
#SoSadSoSexy
March 2022
Samia will be playing Gabrielle in #SoSadSoSexy, a devised play written by Emily Cordes, Alison Leaf and Kendra Augustin, directed by Simha Toledano.
Playing at The Tank, NYC, March 24-26th 2022 at 7pm
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