Sam Locke

Sam is an actor, director, puppeteer, special effects artist, and musician living in Chicago, IL. Sam works as a Resident Director and Teacher at the Annoyance Theater.

Sam started his adventure back in Rockwood, TN, where, at the tender age of 19, he stumbled upon a path leading him to Chicago in order to study improvisational comedy with the Second City. Since then Sam has trained at both the Second City Conservatory and the Annoyance Theater to hone his craft, been cast in dozens of shows in Chicago, and has toured around the country performing and teaching workshops in both improvisational comedy and puppetry at numerous comedy festivals in places ranging from: Boston to Seattle, Alaska down to Florida, Des Moines to Las Vegas, and quite a few places in between.