Bianca Sams is an Writer/Actor hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her plays are lyrical investigations of found stories out of today's headlines or the pages of history, that ask audiences to face their own complex love affair with misery. She recently finished her MFA in Playwriting at Ohio University. She received her BFA from New York University's Tisch School, where she earned the distinction of being Tisch's first ever Triple Major (Acting, Dramatic Writing, Africana Studies). Awards and honors include Ingram New Works Fellow (Nashville Rep), Warner Brothers TV Writing Workshop, KCACTF Lorraine Hansberry (2nd place), Rosa Parks Award (2nd place), Kennedy Center/Eugene O’Neill New Play Conference fellow, Jane Chambers Student Playwright Award/Athe (2nd Place 2013 & 2014), Scott McPherson Playwright Award, The Playwright Center Core Apprentice (2014), Playwright Foundation BAPF (finalist), Eugene O’Neill NPC (semifinalist), TRI Research Fellowship at Ohio State University, and T. S. Eliot Acting Fellowship. She is now pursuing Film & Television in Los Angeles, where she works as a Staff Writer on the new CBS/WB show TRAINING DAY (airing in 2017). She was also included in the Tracking Board’s Young & Hungry List 2016, an annual index of the top 100 young writers to watch.