About Me
Samara Siskind is an award-winning Cuban-American playwright and dramaturg based in South Florida. Her work has been produced across the globe and published by Concord Theatricals, Next Stage Press, Brooklyn Publishers, and featured in the Smith & Kraus annuals -The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2023, The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 2024, The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 2024, The Best 10-Minute Plays of 2024, The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 2025 and The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 2025. Samara is the winner of the 2025 Verna Safran Prize, shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize, and a Finalist in City Theatre Miami's 2025 Susan J. Westfall National Short Playwriting Contest and the 2025 Anna Zornio Memorial Children's Playwriting Contest.
Samara has been selected for Florida Repertory Theatre's 2025 PlayLab Festival of New Works, Official Short Play Selections for the 2025 and 2024 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festivals, Official Selection for the 2023 Morgan-Wixson New Works Festival, 2023 Ellie Award Winner and Official Selection for 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 Florida Repertory Theatre, City Theatre Miami, Forward Theater Company, Morgan-Wixson Theatre, Ivoryton Playhouse, Barrington Stage, 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, amongst 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 through the arts.