SAMMY TRAMP
Sammy Tramp is a wandering hobo and loveable scamp and one of the most original performers in the neo vaudeville, cabaret, and burlesque scene. She graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 2006 with a Bachelor’s degree in theater. A lifetime lover of silent films, slapstick comedy, and all things old timey it was only fitting that she joined and helped create the Silent Theatre Company, a company based out of Chicago that specialized in bringing silent films to life on stage. The company’s inaugural show, Lulu, in which she played the title role, was a critic and fan favorite heralded by the New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Variety, and The San Francisco Chronicle among others. She left Chicago in 2010 and began performing as a soloist as well as creating and directing original shows in St. Louis; The Happy and Humpy Traveling Medicine Show and then the very popular Beggar’s Carnivale in which she is the artistic director. She is also one of the co-producers of Van Ella Production’s Show-Me Burlesque and Vaudeville Festival which began in 2010 in St. Louis. Most recently, Sammy has created a one-of-a-kind old fashioned, moving picture company called The Traveling Flicker Factory. The Flicker Factory tramps from town to town, works with locales and performers within that location and puts together a comedic silent film written, directed, and edited by Sammy. Sammy’s unique brand of high energy slapstick comedy and hat and cane juggling and manipulation has taken her around the world performing and headlining in everything from burlesque festivals, vaudeville shows, street festivals, music festivals, silent film events, children’s events, concerts, private parties, and cabarets. Feverishly dedicated to the art of pantomime, silent film, live entertainment, vaudeville, and all things old timey, Sammy vows to honor the past by making it modern and relevant again.
Are you looking to liven up your event, make your audiences laugh, and “oooh” and “ahhh?” You should hire the one and only Sammy Tramp!