Samy Miklaszewski
Musical theatre actor · Singer · Juggler · Circus performer
Lead performer, Saltimbanco Italiano · Dubai, UAE
Profile
Key skills & strengths
I’m a multidisciplinary musical-theatre performer with a circus background — character, voice, movement and comedy in one stage practice.
Musical Theatre Performance
I combine acting, live singing and movement with confident stage presence. Lead roles include Gaston in Beauty and the Beast and the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz.
Acting & Character Work
Strong comic timing, improvisation and physical storytelling — from the Mad Hatter to Augustus Gloop, built for pantomime and family entertainment.
Live Singing
Versatile vocalist trained across classical, traditional and contemporary musical-theatre styles. Combines strong breath support, clear phrasing and vocal interpretation with acting through song, delivering expressive solo, ensemble and character-led performances for live stage productions.
Circus & Juggling
A specialist diabolo performer with clubs, balls, rings, knives and stilts — I bring an original circus vocabulary into every theatrical role.
Creative Leadership & Lead Performer
Lead performer and creative director at Saltimbanco Italiano, experienced in rehearsals, ensemble work and collaborating with directors, choreographers, technicians and international casts — directing shows and coordinating staff and logistics.
Teaching & Youth Workshops
I lead workshops in global art expression, juggling and theatre for children across Dubai and Abu Dhabi — including my own sessions at the Global Art Juggling Academy, building focus and confidence in the next generation.
Discipline
Musical theatre
I played Gaston in Beauty and the Beast and the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz — both SPAA productions, both lead roles.
I studied classical voice with Iza Kowalewska of Poland — breath support, phrasing and range — and took musical vocal coaching with Rami Farha. In November 2025 I sang the German and UAE national anthems at the German Unity Day reception in Dubai.
Singing
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Volare
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The Lottery
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If I Only Had a Brain
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Discipline
Acting
I build characters for the stage and for the street — the Mad Hatter, Augustus, Peter Pan — roles that work in a mall atrium as readily as in a theatre.
Pantomime is where a lot of that character work lives day to day — playing opposite a full storybook cast in family productions like The Garden Patch at Town Centre Jumeirah, holding a scene on nothing but voice, timing and a costume.
I graduated with Distinction in the Pearson BTEC International Level 2 in Performing Arts at Sharjah Performing Arts Academy in 2024. My physical theatre, clowning and nouvelle comédie training came from Saltimbanco Italiano.
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Discipline
Commercial Modelling & Campaigns
I am available for commercial modelling, fashion and lifestyle campaigns, lookbooks, editorial portraits, e-commerce photography and branded content.
My background in musical theatre and live performance gives me strong camera awareness, expressive range and the ability to understand and follow creative direction. I am equally comfortable working in a professional studio or on location, adapting naturally between polished fashion imagery, relaxed lifestyle photography and character-led commercial campaigns.
Discipline
Circus life
Sixteen years of juggling — and more. I picked up my first diabolo in 2010, at three years old, then clubs, balls, rings and knives. Since 2012 I have been performing professionally across festivals, malls and parades in the UAE and the GCC.
I work solo club routines, full parade productions, roaming acts and comedy duos, and I have walked on stilts at events and on stage since 2010. I have been at Mercato Mall since 2013 and I am still there — alongside Jeddah, the Sharjah District Festival, Al Seff street festival and Dubai Summer Surprises with Modhesh.
Mercato Mall, Dubai
Flying Clubs
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Hat Juggling
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Al Seef
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Teaching
Educational workshops
I teach juggling as psychomotricity — coordination, focus and confidence built through play rather than performance.
My sessions guide children out of their comfort zone and into concentration and collaboration. I trained in pedagogy for teaching global art, and I run programmes for nurseries, kindergartens and primary schools across Dubai and Abu Dhabi. I work under Saltimbanco Italiano, which brings an established company, its crew and thirty years of school and festival experience behind every session.
- Little Dreamers Nursery
- The King’s Palace
- Le Petit Poucet
- Green Grass Nursery
- RWA Primary
- GEMS Abu Dhabi
- Global Art Juggling Academy
About
Born for it
I was born in Dubai to an Italian family of performers, and I grew up inside the company I now help run — sitting on the floor at rehearsals long before I was old enough to be in the show.
I trained with Saltimbanco Italiano in nouvelle comédie, clowning and juggling, specialising in diabolo. I have performed professionally since 2012 across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Europe, and since 2019 I have also worked from the other side — coordinating events, directing artistically and organising the crew. Today I direct the company as lead performer and creative director.
I graduated with a BTEC in Performing Arts with Distinction* from SPAA — Sharjah Performing Arts Academy, UAE — where my courses focused on musical theatre, and I am currently enrolled in the BA in Musical Theatre at the university of the arts in Sharjah, UAE. I also hold certificates from summer courses at the West End Musical Theatre Academy in London, and I have completed professional dance courses with Pineapple Dance Studios in London and Dubai.
2010
On the road of success
Where it started.
Selected work
Where I have worked
- 2010First diabolo, aged three — my earliest appearances with Saltimbanco Italiano
- 2012Sharjah International Book Fair — comedy juggling show, my first professional booking
- 2015Sharjah International Book Fair — billed as one of the world’s youngest jugglers
- 2013–2025Mercato Mall Jumeirah — festivals, parades, comedy, children’s shows, workshops (ongoing)
- 2014–2017Dubai DTCM tours — Dubai Summer Surprises with Modhesh
- 2018–2020Alice in Wonderland tour — the Mad Hatter, Dubai malls and Sharjah District Festival
- 2019UAE National Day tour — juggler, animator, parade dancer
- 2022Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — Augustus · Jeddah tour, Saudi Arabia
- 2022–2023Sharjah District Affair — main stage for HH Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Ruler of Sharjah
- 2024Beauty and the Beast, SPAA — Gaston · Al Seff street festival
- 2025The Wizard of Oz, SPAA — Scarecrow · Circo Moderna, Mercato Mall — MC and main juggler · Peter Pan, Town Centre
- 2019–presentLead performer and creative director, Saltimbanco Italiano Global Art FZLLC — productions, crew and operations
On paper
Letters of appreciation and certificates — click any document to read it full size.
Part of
Saltimbanco Italiano is my family’s company — one of the most recognised circus and theatre production houses in the UAE, with over 35 years of history and success. I grew up inside it, and I now lead it as creative director and lead performer. Booking me means booking that legacy: full productions, crew, and decades of festival, mall and school work across the UAE.