Sam Steiner

Sam is a playwright and screenwriter hailing from Manchester. His acclaimed plays include Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (Walrus Theatre, 2015, Edinburgh Fringe, West End 2023), A Table Tennis Play (Walrus Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, 2019), You Stupid Darkness! (Paines Plough & Theatre Royal Plymouth, 2019 and Southwark Theatre, 2020), and Kanye the First (HighTide, 2017). He also has new commissions with the Almeida Theatre and Francesca Moody. Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons has been performed all over the world in over a dozen languages and will make its West End debut in January 2023.

Sam’s current feature slate includes MORNING, which Justin Kurzel will direct. Laura Dern, Benedict Cumberbatch and Noah Jupe will star with Cumberbatch’s Sunnymarch producing. He has two films currently in production: FINGERNAILS, which Christos Nikou (APPLES) is directing for Apple, starring Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed, and RICH FLU, which Galder Gaztela-Urrutia (THE PLATFORM) is directing starring Mary-Elizabeth Winstead. He is also working an on original horror BANQUET with David Yates’s Wychwood producing and original feature drama THE ENDLING with Tessa Ross and Sarah Esberg producing. 

He is also represented by CAA.