Samantha Cooper

Elle is pretty sure her life is going in exactly the right direction; she's got a great promotion, fun and drunk friends, a hot and heavy relationship on the horizon, and a fancy apartment she never fully unpacked. But with an unpredictable sibling and a family always on high alert, distraction is a constant. As the bad news piles up, Elle quickly starts to lose hold of everything she worked so hard for. Making concessions to protect those around her, Elle must ultimately ask herself who those sacrifices help and who they harm.

Lilith is the pastor of Seattle megachurch Passionate Grace. Well, okay, the church is actually a front for a drug running and rave business. A business which is going incredibly well…until the local alt-rag catches wind of “misuse of church funds” and sends a bumbling reporter to investigate. When the investigation turns to romance and the bottom falls out of the church, Lilith’s real motivations send her kingdom hurtling towards an explosive end. …a dog named Jesus is part drug thriller, part romcom, and part dark com(edy) that is ultimately exploring the connections between faith, home, and the destructive effects of the modern opioid crisis.

Reeling from their best friend's death, a group of women face what their lives look like in the aftermath. In the wake of loss, they each attempt to answer seemingly unanswerable questions: Who will give the eulogy? Will they ever be able to live alone? Why did that girl’s brother show up? Drawing on roller derby culture, Invincible Ones explores the way we handle grief, guilt, and a constant drip from the heavens (apartment) above.

In partnership with New Light Theatre Project, Invincible Ones was recorded as a radio play in October 2020 and released in January of 2021. You can list to that version here: https://www.newlighttheaterproject.com/invincibleones.

Huddled in an office, a teacher and student hope for an all-clear but wait for something that feels more inevitable.

You would totally shiv someone for me, huh?

Brooklyn has just graduated college when her mother, Tilly, makes an odd request: that Brooklyn and her father stay locked in the house with Tilly for one year. As Brooklyn investigates the murky past behind her mother’s strange paranoia, she uncovers more family mysteries than she ever could have imagined. and, and, and Isabella Bootlegs tells the story of four generations of women who, in order to move forward, must first delve into the secrets of their lineage.

After the second botched suicide attempt by their matriarch Renee, the Rudin family agrees to return to their beloved family orchard in an effort to reclaim their original ownership of the land. But during their journey they are all confronted with the harsh realities of recovery and each must learn in their own way: delusion doesn't win back property.

Equal parts pithy and poetic, hilarious and heartbreaking, The Earth Shakes reimagines the infamous couple Antony and Cleopatra as they set a time-hopping collision-course toward each other, hurdling in the direction of a future as catastrophic as it is inevitable.

A Southern Gothic retelling of the return of Agamemnon against the backdrop of modern warfare and a rusty trailer in the middle of nowhere.

Disgusting Temptations is available for licensing through Tiny Scripted at https://www.tinyscripted.com/onstage.

Getting ready for a date is complicated by the presence of a Victorian spectre stuck in a corset. Fog investigates the terrors and barriers of intimacy across generations.

A look at the life of a group of 1950s housewives on an average Thursday which is, of course, bridge day. While the day progresses somewhat normally for a while, it is quickly clear that this particular bridge day is a little more bloody than others.

The Woman American is available for licensing through Tiny Scripted at https://www.tinyscripted.com/onstage.

Brittany's high school bully took things to a whole new (delusional) level. So, Brittany is back in town to fight fire with fire (acid).

Bee 2.0 is available for licensing through Tiny Scripted at https://www.tinyscripted.com/onstage.

In a chaotic reimagining of the death of the Romanov family, what happens to those who are simply following orders?

The story inside that wants to get out.

Rachel encounters a bear on her honeymoon.