Playwright

Samah
Meghjee

(she/her)

Samah is a Muslim playwright and screenwriter residing in Los Angeles. ​Her work breaks the rules, aiming to illuminate and cherish the inner rebel inside us all. Samah’s play Maybe You Could Love Me is an Honorable Mention for The Leah Prize and on the Top List on the Black List. Her original screenplay Quran Camp is a 1497 Features Lab Finalist and is on the MUBI/Wscripted Second Annual Cannes Screenplay List. Her short film Therapist Speed Dating premiered 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 M.F.A. in Writing for the Screen and Stage at Northwestern University and a B.A. from Emory University. In Samah’s free time, she loves thrifting vintage pants, taking photos of her cats on film, and cooking for her loved ones. She formerly worked on ABC/Hulu’s Natalia and A24/Apple TV+’s Sunny. She is represented by Daniel Leap at IAG and Brandy Rivers at Amplified.