Inbal Samuel is a professional actress and a member of SAG, Actors’ Equity and AFTRA. Inbal grew up in the theater in Israel, her father being an acclaimed writer/director and her brother a successful actor and model. She began her performing career as a dancer and piano player but found her true passion in acting which took her first to Paris followed by her current home, New York.
Inbal has had the honor of studying with acting teachers Deborah
Mathieu-Byers, artistic director of Street Light Productions, and the
late Peter Thomson of The Michael Howard Studios. She holds
a B.A. in Theater from Fairleigh Dickinson University (where she
graduated with a 4.0 GPA and the Dean’s Award for Outstanding
Academic Achievement), and is a member of Mensa.
TV appearances: Inga on One Life to Live and Officer Clausen on All My Children. Film credits include starring in The Rivlins, currently airing on Israeli TV and praised by Israel’s President, Shimon Peres, as well as the lead roles in the award winning Straight Flush (Valley Film Festival); Tuesday Night (NY International Film Festival); Timecollapse (Montreal Film Festival); and Blind Date (Philadelphia Film Festival).
Off-Broadway: Sylvie Weitz in Absolute Clarity at The Players Theater; 2 years with the critically acclaimed hit show Mono (“Critics’ Pick” by TimeOutNY, New York Magazine, Paper Magazine, citysearch.com, PlaybyPlay, NYTheatre.com, Show Business Weekly, & more). Other stage credits include the Columbia Film Festival award-winning stage-production of Godless; Kay Boulting in New Federal Theatre’s The Vanishing Literary Club at The Castillo Theater; improv with Endangered Improv; as well as various productions with Creative Stages Company at the Abingdon and Linhart Theatres.
In addition to her acting career, Inbal produced the critically acclaimed show Mambo Quasimodo (selected as ‘One of the Best of 2004’ by NYTheatre.com and Critics’ Pick by High 5), collaborating with the creator of Mono, Steven Tanenbaum, who wrote and directed Mambo.