Daisy Violet the Bitch Beast King by
Up in their attic, sisters Josephine and Henrietta create a new sister for their family; she's monstrous and violent and embodies everything they've dreamed of: the rage of children, the fury of girls.
Sam Collier
Sam Collier
Sam Collier is a playwright, poet, and theater artist. She is a PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she studies interspecies collaboration and plays about climate change.
Her play DAISY VIOLET THE BITCH BEAST KING was the Winner of the 2019 Modern Works Festival at Urbanite Theatre in Sarasota, Florida. Her work has also been developed and...
Her play DAISY VIOLET THE BITCH BEAST KING was the Winner of the 2019 Modern Works Festival at Urbanite Theatre in Sarasota, Florida. Her work has also been developed and...
Sam Collier is a playwright, poet, and theater artist. She is a PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she studies interspecies collaboration and plays about climate change.
Her play DAISY VIOLET THE BITCH BEAST KING was the Winner of the 2019 Modern Works Festival at Urbanite Theatre in Sarasota, Florida. Her work has also been developed and presented by New College of Florida, Theatre Nova, the North Carolina Women's Theatre Festival, the UC Davis Ground & Field Theatre Festival, the Last Frontier Theater Conference, PTP/NYC, the Chicago Theatre Marathon, the Make Ready, Horse & Cart, New Ground Theater, Theater Nyx, and the Iowa New Play Festival.
She has held residencies and fellowships with the National Writers Series, the Goodman Playwrights Unit, the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and NTI Theatermakers.
She has taught writing with Unity College, Interlochen Arts Camp, Front Street Writers, Cornell College, the Iowa Young Writers Project, Indiana Repertory Theater, Young Playwrights Theater, the University of Iowa, Imagination Stage, and public schools in Iowa City, D.C., Boston, and northern Michigan.
Sam's poems have been published in Claw & Blossom, What Rough Beast, Iron Horse Literary Review, Sixfold, Mortar Magazine, The Puritan, Guernica, and elsewhere.
Along with Sarah Cho, she is the co-host of the playwriting podcast Beckett's Babies. You can catch their latest episode, or settle in for an entire evening of good conversations, at beckettsbabies.com.
MFA: University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop.
Her play DAISY VIOLET THE BITCH BEAST KING was the Winner of the 2019 Modern Works Festival at Urbanite Theatre in Sarasota, Florida. Her work has also been developed and presented by New College of Florida, Theatre Nova, the North Carolina Women's Theatre Festival, the UC Davis Ground & Field Theatre Festival, the Last Frontier Theater Conference, PTP/NYC, the Chicago Theatre Marathon, the Make Ready, Horse & Cart, New Ground Theater, Theater Nyx, and the Iowa New Play Festival.
She has held residencies and fellowships with the National Writers Series, the Goodman Playwrights Unit, the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and NTI Theatermakers.
She has taught writing with Unity College, Interlochen Arts Camp, Front Street Writers, Cornell College, the Iowa Young Writers Project, Indiana Repertory Theater, Young Playwrights Theater, the University of Iowa, Imagination Stage, and public schools in Iowa City, D.C., Boston, and northern Michigan.
Sam's poems have been published in Claw & Blossom, What Rough Beast, Iron Horse Literary Review, Sixfold, Mortar Magazine, The Puritan, Guernica, and elsewhere.
Along with Sarah Cho, she is the co-host of the playwriting podcast Beckett's Babies. You can catch their latest episode, or settle in for an entire evening of good conversations, at beckettsbabies.com.
MFA: University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop.