About Me
Samara Siskind is an award-winning playwright and dramaturg based in Florida. 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 Volumes 1 and 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 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 soon to be released by Smith & Kraus. Her youth plays have also been published by Playscripts, Brooklyn Publishers and featured in PLAYS, The Drama Magazine for Young People. Honors include Winner - 2025 Verna Safran Prize, Winner - The Chameleon Theatre Circle's 25th Annual New Play Contest, 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 and Curtain Up 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, 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, 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.