Sam Lahne

Sam Lahne

Sam Lahne’s plays include Right (Kennedy Center/NNPN MFA Workshop), Doxxed (University of Iowa New Play Festival), #julys (Bay Area Playwrights Festival; Open Festival of New Jewish Theater), and Water Bound (Barter Theatre AFPP). Sam is a 2016-2017 Core Apprentice at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, a founding member of Studio Trimtab, an art/design/engineering collective, and he was a visiting...
Sam Lahne’s plays include Right (Kennedy Center/NNPN MFA Workshop), Doxxed (University of Iowa New Play Festival), #julys (Bay Area Playwrights Festival; Open Festival of New Jewish Theater), and Water Bound (Barter Theatre AFPP). Sam is a 2016-2017 Core Apprentice at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, a founding member of Studio Trimtab, an art/design/engineering collective, and he was a visiting playwright in residence at Endstation Theatre Company. His short play The Giant Man was a winner of the 2012 Red Bull Short Play Competition and is published in the collection "Red Bull Shorts: The Best of Red Bull Theater's Short New Play Festival." Sam received his B.A. from Vassar College and his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa.

Plays

  • #julys by Sam Lahne
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: internet, Anti-Semitism + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce, political
    Keyword: internet, Anti-Semitism, Jewish, judaism, Farce, online, anonymous, conspiracy
    #julys is an off-kilter farce that examines antisemitism, identity, and the internet through the eyes of Avram, a troubled 16-year-old who builds a community through an antisemitic conspiracy website/social forum, but finds his life spiraling out of control as his offline and online worlds converge.
  • Water Bound by Sam Lahne
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    7–8
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    Genre: adventure, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: storytelling, monster + 4 more
    Genre: adventure, drama, experimental, fable/folktale, fantasy
    Keyword: storytelling, monster, family, Virginia, boat, travel
    In the hollowed-out, famine-racked countryside of the Independent Dominion of Unified Virginias, a family travels by batteau down the Fluvianna River to deliver the contents of a hogshead barrel and meet up with the family’s patriarch. As they try to avoid the many monsters along the way, their attempts to make sense of their tainted world through storytelling begin to unravel with their stories, and they find...
    In the hollowed-out, famine-racked countryside of the Independent Dominion of Unified Virginias, a family travels by batteau down the Fluvianna River to deliver the contents of a hogshead barrel and meet up with the family’s patriarch. As they try to avoid the many monsters along the way, their attempts to make sense of their tainted world through storytelling begin to unravel with their stories, and they find themselves endangered by a mysterious stranger and a hidden act of violence