Samantha Macher received her B.A. at UVA before completing her M.F.A. at the Playwright’s Lab at Hollins University.

Since beginning her career in 2011, she has had over 40 productions of her written work both in the U.S. and abroad, and is the winner of a StageSceneLA “Best World Premiere Play” for War Bride in 2012. Her play Reset was a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Award (2015), and her award-winning film Last Pyramid (2015) was accepted into several festivals and has helped in the fundraising and awareness raising efforts for the mission of the Epilepsy Foundation.

She has worked in residency with the University of Virginia Drama Department as the Keenan Lecturer for 2016.