About Me

Samara Siskind is a South Florida based playwright and dramaturg. Her plays and monologues have been produced across the globe and published in various anthologies including Shorter, Faster, Funnier: Comic Plays and Monologues, Great Short Comedies Volume 1 and Great Short Comedies Volume 2, StageIt!7: Thirty Ten-Minute Plays, Young Women's Monologues from Contemporary Plays Volume 2, Chew on This: A Collection of Ten-Minute Duets, The Best 10-Minute Plays of 2023, The Best Women's Monologues of 2024, The Best Men's Monologues of 2024, and The Best 10-Minute Plays of 2024 to be released by Smith & Kraus this December. Her youth plays have also been published by Playscripts, Brooklyn Publishers and featured in PLAYS, The Drama Magazine for Young People. Honors include Official Short Play Selection for the 2024 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, 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, Carbonell nominations for Best New Work, Runner Up - International Centre for Women/Playscripts' Are Women Funny? Contest, Winner - 2023 StageIt!7 10 Minute Play Festival - Center for the Arts Bonita Springs, Finalist - LaBute New Theatre Festival 2023.

 

Samara's work has been developed and produced by City Theatre Miami, Forward Theater Company, Morgan-Wixson Theatre, Ivoryton Playhouse, Whiskey Theatre Factory, Lakeshore Players Theatre, Play de Luna, B3 Theater, Murmuration Theatre Company, M1A - Miami One Acts, Napa Valley Players, Edmonds Driftwood Players, Manhattan Arts Center, Lunch Time Theater, and Mad Cat Theatre Company, amongst others. Samara holds a BFA in Regional Theatre from Webster University's 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.