Samantha (she/her) is a queer writer of plays, poems, and various & sundry. She holds a BA from Western Washington University and an MFA from Columbia University. Currently based in Queens, New York, she original hails from out west.
Her work is whiskey and snark. It is a constant treatise on grief and mourning. Its timbre is whiplash, high speed banter and devastatingly quiet moments. Her characters are unapologetically unlikeable. After all, why apologize for being human? If you look closely, her work will look back at you with a black eye and a bloody smile. Her worlds always have humor, no matter what. And in case her dad asks, yes, this play has swearing too.
Some of her plays include Invincible Ones (2017 O’Neill Playwrights Conference Semi-finalist, 2017 Bay Area Playwrights Foundation Semi-finalist, 2016 Princess Grace Awards Semi-finalist), and, and, and Isabella Bootlegs (2018 Columbia@Roundabout Finalist), These Mistakes (2015 Last Frontier Theatre Conference Play Lab), and The Woman American (2015 Disquiet International Literary Short Play Contest Finalist, 2016 Final 30 Concord Theatricals [Samuel French] OOB Festival). Her two newest works, …and a dog Named Jesus and She Lives With a Shrine, are both currently in development.
She is probably making a baked good, watching a sitcom, or getting ready to walk through a cemetery right now.
Samantha writes a weekly Substack newsletter called This’ll Have to Do. She available for productions, commissions, tv/screenwriting work, and copywriting, etc. She is also currently open to representation.