Samuel Harjanne (born December 22, 1987) is a director originally from Finland. He is currently living in Denmark. Before his career as a director, he performed voice-dubbing roles in the Finnish language for foreign media, including major character roles, as well as in various musicals in the Finnish and Swedish speaking theatres in Finland. He has directed and/or acted in theaters in Finland, such as: Helsinki City Theatre, Åbo Svenska Teater, Turku City Theatre, Wasa Teater, Tampereen Työväen Teatteri and Tampereen teatteri. He has directed many musicals, ranging from Disney to Altar Boyz, and since the success of his production of Kinky Boots in Helsinki 2018, he is considered a notable musical theatre director of Finland.
Internationally he has been directing in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Estonia.
His future works include new productions of Come From Away, Matilda and Anastasia.
He is the founder of Harjanne Company Ltd
Theatre works
Theatre director
Altar Boyz – Helsinki – Finland, 2008
The Wedding Singer – Pietarsaari – Finland, 2010
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown – Porvoo – Finland, 2011
Aladdin – Helsinki – Finland, 2012
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change – Finnish Tour 2014
The Three Little Pigs – Helsinki – Finland, 2014 / Finnish tour, 2015
Loserville – Guildford – United Kingdom, 2015
Don't Run – A New Musical – London – United Kingdom, 2015
Käyttöohje kahdelle – Helsinki – Finland, 2016
Spring Awakening – Tampere – Finland, 2017
Les Misérables – Tallinn & Tartu – Estonia, 2017
Billy Elliot – Tampere – Finland, 2018
Kinky Boots – Helsinki & Tampere – Finland, 2018 & 2020
Disney's The Little Mermaid – Helsinki – Finland, 2019
Groundhog Day – Helsinki – Finland, 2020
Maailma on tehty meitä varten – Helsinki – Finland, 2020
Sister Act – Tartu – Estonia, 2020
Spring Awakening – Gothenburg – Sweden, 2021
Matilda the Musical – Tampere – Finland, 2021
Actor
Avenue Q – Nicky (2007) High School Musical – Ryan (2008) High School Musical 2 – Ryan (2009) Spring Awakening – Ernst (2009) Les Misérables – Feuilly (2010–2011) & Enjolras (2012) Striking 12 – Brandon (2011) When the Robbers Came to Cardamom Town – Tommi (2011–2012) Legally Blonde – Carlos (2011) Next to normal – Henry (2012) Jekyll & Hyde – u/s Jekyll & Hyde, ensemble (2013) Les Misérables – Enjolras (2013–2014) Tanz der Vampire – Herbert (2016)
Voice over works
Voice over director
Bridge to Terabithia – Finnish Director (2008) SamSam – Finnish Director (2009) High School Musical – El Desafio – Finnish Director (2009) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – Finnish Director (2009) Gnomeo and Juliet – Finnish Director (2011) Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure – Finnish Director (2011) Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 – Finnish Director (2013) Pete's Dragon – Finnish Director (2016) Disney's Beauty and the Beast – Finnish Director (2017) Artemis Fowl – Finnish Director (2020)
Television animation
Recess – Vince, Butch (1997–2001) Kim Possible – Ron Stoppable (2002–2008) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) – Leonardo (Seasons 1–2) (2003–2004) (Later replaced by: Markus Blom) The Replacements – Donny Rottweiler, Johnny Kunnari (2006–2009) Phineas and Ferb – Jeremy Johnson, Buford Van Stomm and Carl (2007–2015) Avatar: The Last Airbender – Sokka (2008) Lego NinjaGo: Masters of Spinjitzu – Jay (2011–current)
Anime
Transformers: Cybertron – Coby, Red Alert
Transformers: Armada – Rad
Pokémon – Season 17 Theme Song & Random additional voice dubbing roles
Digimon Tamers – Ryo Akiyama, Grani (2009) Digimon Adventure 02 – Ken Ichijouji (2002) Beyblade – Ray Battle B-Daman – Enjyu, Joshua, Cain (episodes 19–25)
Live action television
LazyTown – Pixeli (Rúnar Freyr Gíslason) (voice) Hannah Montana – Jackson Stewart (Jason Earles) (2006)