Samantha Roche
Instructor & Choreographer
Samantha teaches ballet, tap, and jazz at Wayne Ballet & Center for Dance Arts, where she has been training since she was seven. Samantha has also trained at Koresh, Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, and Academy of International Ballet. During her training, she also performed with the Footwerx tap company at the Wilma Theatre and the Arts Bank.
Since her professional debut in Elvis: A Musical Revolution (Dixie and Ann Margret) at Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre, Samantha has performed at Walnut Street Theatre (Ensemble in Beauty and the Beast, Betty in Beautiful), Fulton Theatre (Sillabub in Cats) and along side Broadway stars Kelli O’Hara and Sutton Foster in An Evening with Sutton Foster & Kelli O’Hara. She was assistant choreographer, as well as a dancer, at the New Amsterdam Theatre (Arts For Autism 2024: A Broadway Benefit Concert). Additionally Samantha choreographs the musicals at William Penn Charter Upper and Middle Schools, Radnor High School, and other community theaters in the area. Outside of teaching and performing, Samantha is trained in puppetry and loves to create puppets, making the official music video for Bowling for Soup’s “Getting Old Sucks”. She looks forward to sharing her love of dance at Facetime Theatre!
