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Sam Collier is a playwright, director, and theater scholar based in Colorado Springs, where she is an Assistant Professor of Playwriting and Performance at Colorado College.
Her research focuses on theater about climate change, ecodramaturgy, and more-than-human performance.
Her plays include Daisy Violet the Bitch Beast King; The Light That’s Left; A Hundred Circling Camps; thing with feathers; Quiet, Witches; and Silo Tree.
Her multimedia interspecies performance, Canine Capture, was presented at the CU ATLAS Institute’s B2 Center for Media, Arts, and Performance in October 2025.
Sam’s directing credits include Mr. Burns, a post-electric play, by Anne Washburn (CU Boulder); Antigone, Presented by the Girls of St. Catherine’s, by Madhuri Shekar (CU Boulder); and Féminaal, by Nina Morrison (University of Iowa).
Occasionally she writes poems, some of which have appeared in the Dunes Review, Claw & Blossom, What Rough Beast, Sixfold, Iron Horse Literary Review, Mortar Magazine, Liminal Stories Magazine, The Puritan, Prompt Press, and Guernica.
She holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder, as well as an MFA in playwriting from the University of Iowa.
She co-hosts the podcast Beckett’s Babies with Sarah Cho.
Visit her page at the New Play Exchange.