ABOUT SAMANTHA

Hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Samantha Halas has traveled the world to study circus arts including China, San Francisco, Mongolia and across Canada. Now based in Toronto, her latest accomplishment, creating Deep Dish, a one woman show, she has performed across Canada. Samantha has performed for circuses including Street Circus, Haut Vol, Luna Caballera, the Underground Circus, Labo Cirque, Chile’s En La Cuerda, alongside the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra,  Balancing on the Edge of Toronto, has toured Canada and Europe with Red Sky Performance. She produced and wrote numerous narrative driven cabarets in Winnipeg as Frostbite Circus. You can catch her in Elevator Game, a horror movie in which she is the villain. Samantha has been teaching circus arts for over 15 years, coaching everywhere from complete beginners to professional circus artists or as part of social circus programs that provide circus programming to marginalized communities.