About
Samantha Chanse's plays and performances have been presented with Ars Nova's ANT Fest, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Second Generation, FringeNYC, The Marsh, PlayGround in Residence at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Bowery Poetry Club, Kearny Street Workshop, Bindlestiff Studio, and other nonprofit art spaces & dimly-lit bars. A member playwright of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, she is the recipient of an Individual Artist Commission from the San Francisco Arts Commission, an Artist In Motion residency from Footloose/Shotwell Studio, and an Emerging Artists Residency from Tofte Lake Center.
She wrote and performed in two short films, Terra Cotta and Asian American Jesus, both of which were directed by collaborator Yasmine Gomez, and have screened at film festivals nationally and internationally.
Sam also teaches undergraduate writing at Columbia University, co-runs a bicoastal multidisciplinary artist salon called Laundry Party, and hosts an irregular podcast on WHFR.org. She served for a number of years as the artistic director of San Francisco-based arts nonprofit Kearny Street Workshop, and as co-director of Locus Arts. Her first solo play, Lydia's Funeral Video, is forthcoming from Kaya Press.
She is currently completing her MFA in playwriting at Columbia University.
