The Actual Dance with Sam Simon Cast

Sam describes his work with The Actual Dance as his “fourth age.” He comes to it after a career as a prominent member of America’s consumer movement. Trained as a lawyer, he started his career as one of the original members of Ralph Nader’s first legal advocacy group in Washington, DC in 1970. After a stint in the US Army as a JAG Captain, Sam returned to work for Ralph Nader and started his own consulting firm. In 2008, following the sale of his consumer affairs firm in Washington, Sam became a senior fellow with Intersections International, a non-profit social justice initiative of the Collegiate Church of New York. He transitioned from that work to serve on its advisory board in 2013. He began to devote himself full time to The Actual Dance. Sam returned to theater as an avocation in the late 1990s. He was new to play writing, but had been active in community theater in the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area for about 15 years.