Samah Meghjee

Samah Meghjee (pronounced like "summer" with a Boston accent) is a Muslim playwright and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. Her work centers around womanhood and queerness in Islam, second-generation-immigrant-ism, and identical twin-ness.

Samah Meghjee (pronounced like "summer" with a Boston accent) is a Muslim playwright and screenwriter based in Los Angeles. Her work centers around womanhood and queerness in Islam, second-generation-immigrant-ism, and identical twin-ness.

Scripts

Maybe You Could Love Me

by Samah Meghjee

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Cast Size
2
Genre
drama,
faith-based,
tragedy

Noor and Sajida are best friends, and have been from ages 7 to 17. Now, they're at a precipice in their lives: do they get arranged marriages as is customary in their sect of Islam, or will they leave the culture and forge their own paths? As they've been sleeping together for the past several years, this question proves complicated.

Noor and Sajida are best friends, and have been from ages 7 to 17. Now, they're at a precipice in their lives: do they get arranged marriages as is customary in their sect of Islam, or will they leave the culture and forge their own paths? As they've been sleeping together for the past several years, this question proves complicated.

For Goodness Bakes

by Samah Meghjee

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Cast Size
2—5
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
political,
satire

Ten minute play.
The world ends on National Pie Day.

Ten minute play.
The world ends on National Pie Day.

The Mysterious Mystery of the Lost Letters

by Samah Meghjee

Cast Size
16—18
Genre
comedy,
mystery/thriller

A Theater for Young Audiences Play. Zoe is an assistant to Detective Davis Darvis, an incompetent amateur who does not appreciate her talents. When he accepts a case regarding an old woman’s stolen letters, he rejects Zoe’s proposal to help. She teams up with her friend Isaac in a race to solve the case before Darvis does, using her wit combined with Isaac’s botanical knowledge to aid their search. Their...

A Theater for Young Audiences Play. Zoe is an assistant to Detective Davis Darvis, an incompetent amateur who does not appreciate her talents. When he accepts a case regarding an old woman’s stolen letters, he rejects Zoe’s proposal to help. She teams up with her friend Isaac in a race to solve the case before Darvis does, using her wit combined with Isaac’s botanical knowledge to aid their search. Their adventure brings them across an elderly pro-wrestler, a duck-obsessed cult, a knitting gang, and more as they try to find the lost letters.

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Letters from London

by Samah Meghjee

Cast Size
5
Genre
adventure,
drama,
experimental

A mother and daughter at-odds travel through time with a giant octopus.

A mother and daughter at-odds travel through time with a giant octopus.

Zahra and Labbayk

by Samah Meghjee

Cast Size
5
Genre
drama,
faith-based

Islamic legend says that a jinn, a humanoid mystical being with backwards feet, lives in every house. When Zahra falls in love with the jinn in her childhood home that no one else can see, her already tricky family life gets even more complicated.

Islamic legend says that a jinn, a humanoid mystical being with backwards feet, lives in every house. When Zahra falls in love with the jinn in her childhood home that no one else can see, her already tricky family life gets even more complicated.