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Samah (pronounced like "summer" with a Boston accent) is a playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker. Her work is interested in the currency of secrets: we all keep them, we trade them, we hold them over each other, we cling to our own with desperation, and sometimes, a collective “we” keeps them in tandem, even though the secret is already known by all. As the storyteller, she is the keeper and withholder of the truth, and she loves to calculate when to divulge and when to hold back.

Samah is a member of the 2025-2026 IAMA Emerging Playwright's Lab where she is writing a new play blood party. She was a member of the2024-2025 Geffen Writers’ Room where she wrote a new musical The Deep End. Her play Maybe You Could Love Me had its World Premiere at Theater Mu in Minneapolis in September. MYCLM was selected for the Road Theater's Summer Playwrights Festival and it was a semifinalist for the O'Neill Playwrights Conference and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. The play is an Honorable Mention for The Leah and on the Black List x Georgia List.

Samah is a member of the 2025 Queerframes Lab, a creative incubator for emerging and early-career storytellers. Her original screenplay QURAN CAMP is on the Black List x GLAAD List and the Black List x Muslim List. It was also a 1497 Feature Lab Finalist and was on the MUBI/WScripted Second Annual Cannes Screenplay List. QURAN CAMP is currently in development with Full Spectrum Features.

Samah was the Writer’s Assistant on ABC/Hulu’s GOOD AMERICAN FAMILY. She was the Showrunner’s Assistant to Katie Robbins on A24/Apple TV+’s SUNNY.

Samah's short film, THERAPIST SPEED DATING, had a limited premiere on Amazon Prime Video. Her children's one acts, THE MYSTERIOUS MYSTERY OF THE LOST LETTERS and THE BETTER BANANA, co-authored by her identical twin, are available through Brooklyn Publishers and have been performed at high schools all across the USA.

Samah graduated with an MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage at Northwestern University. She earned a BA in English & Creative Writing and Media Studies from Emory University.

Formerly, Samah has worked at the Alliance Theatre, Super Gerbils Inc., and Third Rail Studios. She routinely acts as a speaker for the Northwestern Center for Talent and Development and recently led a Writer’s Room for the Rickshaw Film Foundation.

Photo by George Hudson

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