About Me
Samara Siskind is an award-winning Cuban-American playwright and dramaturg based in South Florida. Her plays have been produced worldwide, published and licensed by Concord Theatricals, Next Stage Press, and Brooklyn Publishers. Her work has also been featured in eight of the Smith & Kraus "Best Of" annuals including The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2023 and 2024, and The Best Women's and Men's Stage Monologues of 2024, 2025, and 2026. Samara is the winner of the 2025 Verna Safran Prize and the 2023 Ellie Award, shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize, and a Finalist in both City Theatre Miami's 2025 Susan J. Westfall National Short Playwriting Contest and the 2025 Anna Zornio Children's Theatre Playwriting Award.
Samara's plays have been Official Selections for the 9th New Play Lab at the 43rd Annual William Inge Festival, Florida Repertory Theatre's 2025 PlayLab Festival of New Works, the 2025 and 2024 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festivals, the 2023 Morgan-Wixson New Works Festival, and the 6th Annual Ivoryton Women Playwrights Festival. She is a Carbonell nominee for Best New Work and a Finalist in the 2023 LaBute New Theatre Festival.
Samara's work has been developed and produced by Barrington Stage Company, Florida Repertory Theatre, City Theatre Miami, Forward Theater Company, Morgan-Wixson Theatre, Ivoryton Playhouse, The Barrow Group, Theatre Odyssey, Whiskey Theatre Factory, Cherry Picking NYC, Gi60: The International One Minute Theatre Festival, tiny_Theatre, Playwrights' Round Table, Lakeshore Players Theatre, Play de Luna, B3 Theater, Murmuration Theatre Company, M1A - Miami One Acts, Napa Valley Players, Edmonds Driftwood Players, Lunch Time Theater, and Manhattan Arts Center, among others. Samara holds a BFA in Regional Theatre from the Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild. Samara also serves as the Resident Dramaturg for Athena Project, a Colorado-based nonprofit committed to empowering women and underrepresented genders through the arts.