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 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 had a reading in Theater Mu's New Eyes Festival at the Playwrights Center in late 2024. The play is an Honorable Mention for The Leah and on the Black List x Georgia 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 was the Writer’s Assistant on ABC/Hulu’s GOOD AMERICAN FAMILY starring Ellen Pompeo, Mark Duplass, and Imogen Faith Reid. She was the Showrunner’s Assistant to Katie Robbins on 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.

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.