Biography

Born and raised in New York, Malika Samuel is an interdisciplinary storyteller and teaching artist with a career spanning over two decades from stage, film, television and numerous regional and national commercials. Published in peer reviewed journals, Malika has applied her creative experiences, personal skills & multiple professional proficiencies to medical & healthcare curriculum & research. She is presently faculty at her alma mater NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Select Credits: Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (OBC), The Music Man

NY Theater: Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Keen), Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (WP/2ST); Bernarda's Daughters (The New Group/ Audible Theater)

TV: "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" "EVIL" "Orange Is the New Black" "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" "Chicago P.D." "Law & Order: SVU" "The Good Wife" "Person of Interest" "The Big C"

Hosting: "Nick Studio 10" "2013 Kids' Choice Awards Pre- Show" "Kidz Bop Kidz Star USA".

Film: "Holiday Rush" "Submission" "Central Park" "Hello Apartment" "Kilimanjaro"

Directing:Marie Antoinette and the Magical Negroes by Terry Guest, The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca, The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe (NYU Tisch MSNR Studio) in lucem: a devised piece (Tisch Drama Stages) Movement Direction: Genevieve Simon's Bloom Bloom Pow by Genevieve Simon (The Mural Theatre at A.R.T/NY Theaters, dir. Katherine Wilkinson)

Her vocals are featured on the following soundtracks: One Life to Live's 'Prom Night: The Musical', One Life To Live's 'Starr X'd Lovers: The Musical,' and Star Stage Records' 'The Lion King Accompaniment CD.'

She is represented by A3 Artists Agency and Paradigm Talent Agency.

Her work is joyfully rooted in embodied-multi tongue storytelling that embraces and celebrates the intricacies of process and rejects passive reception. Malika endeavors to examine, challenge, and uplift intimate humaneness while confronting the intersections between the public and private self and inviting profoundly challenging healing, growth and transcension.

- IMDb mini biography by: Shelby Samuel