about

Sam is a playwright and dramaturg. His full-length plays include FORCING and COW CAMP (FAB Downtown Art, O'Neill semifinalist) and a collaboratively-created work called HOW TO MAKE A REVOLUTION WITHOUT GIVING OFFENSE OR AROUSING RESENTMENT (developed at Bed-Stuy Art House and the Brooklyn Rail).

Sam's play WET SOCK ON A SORE FOOT was a semifinalist for the 2020 Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission. With the Brouhaha Theatre Project, he has co-conceived and written THE VICKY ARCHIVES (The Tank), SOFT BOY (The Tank), HEYDAYS (Prospect Park), and R&D: A NIGHTMARE IN THREE FLOWCHARTS (Dixon Place, The Keep). He was a 2019 WildWind Performance Lab resident, and the 2016-17 Literary Fellow at Playwrights Horizons. His site-specific short plays PEOPLE LOVE US and PLURAL were presented in a car and a hotel room, respectively, by Montana Repertory Theatre. THE CASTLE WITH A THOUSAND LIGHTS, a play for young audiences, premiered at Montana Rep in 2022 and toured across the state.

Sam is currently the Literary Manager for Tom Kirdahy Productions, a Tony Award-winning production company. As Terrence McNally's assistant, Sam worked on FIRE AND AIR (CSC, dir. John Doyle), IMMORTAL LONGINGS (ZACH Theatre, dir. Peter Rothstein), and FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE (Broadway, dir. Arin Arbus). He grew up in central Wyoming and now lives in Brooklyn. B.A. from Bates College.

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