Samah (pronounced like "summer" with a Boston accent) is a Muslim Playwright and Screenwriter. ​Her work breaks the rules, aiming to illuminate and cherish the inner rebel inside us all.

Samah is the a member of the 2025 Queerframes Lab, a creative incubator for emerging and early-career storytellers. She is also a member of the 2024-2025 Geffen Writers’ Room ; the Room will culminate with a reading of a new play. Her play MAYBE YOU COULD LOVE ME was recently in Theater Mu’s New Eyes Festival at the Playwright’s Center in Minnesota. The play is an Honorable Mention for The Leah and on the Top List on the Black List. 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.

Samah worked on ABC/Hulu’s NATALIA starring Ellen Pompeo and Mark Duplass, and A24/Apple TV+’s SUNNY starring Rashida Jones and Hidetoshi Nishijima.

Samah's short film, THERAPIST SPEED DATING, had a limited premiere on Amazon Prime Video. Her children's one act, THE MYSTERIOUS MYSTERY OF THE LOST LETTERS, co-authored by her identical twin, was published by Brooklyn Publishers and has 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.

In Samah's free time, she loves sewing, taking photos of her cats, and cooking for her loved ones.

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.

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