Samara Siskind

Published in THE BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS OF 2023 (Smith & Kraus)

2025 Selected- Women's One-Acts+ Eden Prairie Players
2024 Selected- Murmuration Theatre Company's First Flight Showcase, NYC
2024 Selected- Ludington Area Center for the Arts Tales for the Stage 10 Minute Play Festival
2022 Selected- Lakeshore Players Theatre's 18th Annual 10-Minute Play Festival

(10 Min) In the age of swiping left or right, three hopeless romantics defy the odds by looking for love the good old-fashioned way . . . on Craigslist.

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(Full-Length) Forget war, in yesterday's day and age, dating was hell. An old school exploration of love, friendship and other landmines of dating before we all started swiping right.

*Published in THE BEST MEN'S STAGE MONOLOGUES OF 2024 (Smith & Kraus)

2023 Selected- Ivoryton's 6th Annual Women Playwrights Festival
2023 Selected - Morgan-Wixson Theatre's New Works Festival
2023 Finalist - LaBute New Theatre Festival
2023 Semi-Finalist, The Gary Garrison Playwriting Award for 10-Minute Plays

(One-Act) A young black man strikes up a conversation with a young white woman while dining in the food court of a suburban shopping mall. What she initially believes to be just a random pick up attempt becomes much more complicated. It turns out they’re not complete strangers after all.

*Featured in THE BEST MEN'S STAGE MONOLOGUES OF 2024 (Smith & Kraus)

Selected, Florida Repertory Theatre's 2025 PlayLab
Shortlist 2025 Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize
Longlist Theatre503 International Playwriting Award
Finalist - Boise Contemporary Theater's 2025 BIPOC Playwrights Festival
Semi-Finalist, Utah Shakespeare Festival 2025 Words Cubed
Semi-Finalist, The Hippodrome Theatre's 2025 New Works Festival
Semi-Finalist, Louise Wigglesworth Excellence in Playwriting Award

Are first impressions ever reliable? A young black man strikes up a conversation with a young white woman in the food court of a suburban shopping mall. What she initially believes to be a random pick-up attempt becomes much more complicated. It turns out they’re not complete strangers after all.

Jonas has found Sam's secret hiding spot under her favorite tree. Sam wants to be alone. Jonas craves company. After a run-in with a potential threat and a debate over The Giving Tree, a true friendship evolves, but can their friendship withstand the seasons and stages of adolescence?

Selected - 2026 The Growing Stage's New Play-Reading Festival
Finalist - 2025 Anna Zornio Children's Theatre Playwriting Award
Selected - 2025 ThinkTank Theatre's TYA PlayFest
Selected - 2025 Aggregate Collective's Loop Festival

*Published in THE BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS OF 2024 &
THE BEST WOMEN'S STAGE MONOLOGUES OF 2024 (Smith & Kraus)

Published in Stageit!7 - Thirty Ten Minute Plays
2023 Winner - Lakeshore Players Theatre's 19th Annual 10-Minute Play Festival
2023 Winner - Stageit! 10 Minute Play Festival - Center for the Arts Bonita Springs
Selection - Valley Players 2023 Summer Staged Reading Series

(10 Min) Prom night. Two silver singles. One overprotective grandkid. Seniors rule.

Winner - 2025 Verna Safran Prize
Selected - Cherry Picking 2024 Déjà vu, New York, NY
Official Short Play Selection for the 2025 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival

(10 Min) Two strangers off a train.
Charlie approaches Chris on a subway platform. Is he a friend or foe?

*Published in the FROZEN WOMEN, FLOWING THOUGHTS anthology from Venus Theatre Company
Selected - Forward Theatre Company's Out in This World 2023 Monologue Festival
Selected - B3 Theater's First Festival of Feminist Theater

(Monologue) On a road trip, Gwen introduces her kids to the 107th Wonder of the World.

2024 Selected - M1A- Miami One-Acts Winter Session
2023 Selected - Whiskey Theatre Factory's Still on Zoom: A Night of Plays Set in the Virtual World

(10 Min) Beth wants to book a photo shoot but has an unusual request.

*Zoom friendly version available upon request

*Soon to be featured in THE BEST MEN'S STAGE MONOLOGUES OF 2025 &
THE BEST WOMEN'S STAGE MONOLOGUES OF 2025 (Smith & Kraus)
*Finalist, City Theatre's Susan J. Westfall National Playwriting Award
*Winner, Chameleon Theatre Circle New Play Contest
Official Short Play Selection for the 2024 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival
(10 Min) Kevin and Jules are stuck in a closet together. A lot can happen in seven minutes.

Top Finalist - Kinsman Quarterly Holiday Playwright Contest
Selected - 2023 M1A-Miami One-Acts Winter Session

(10 Min) It’s Christmas Eve and Julia is about to meet the parents, Miami style.
Will they be able to eat, drink and be merry?

(10 Min) Jane is up for a new experience, Brett is just along for the Uber ride.

Boy meets girl on boat. Will their meet cute go viral, or will it all go overboard?

(10min) Two estranged sisters reconnect during Thanksgiving break.

Selected - 2025 Playwrights' Round Table Launch 25
Selected - 2024 M1A-Miami One-Acts Summer Sessions
Selected - 2024 12th Annual Columbus Black Theatre Festival

Two people barter at a yard sale only to realize that friendship is the most prized of all possessions.

*Selected - 2024 20th Anniversary Edition of Gi60: The International One Minute Theatre Festival

Published by LAAFTRRRRR - An Anthology of One Minute Comic Plays

(One Min) BFFs and SAHMs Stephanie and Jane really need a time-out.

(Monologue)
Patricia reveals one of her favorite things.

A cute couplet for two actors.

A haunted holiday play.
(10 Min) Figgy, a disgruntled Elf on the Shelf, has had just about enough.

Published in Young Women's Monologues from Contemporary Plays: Volume 2

Monologue - A young woman visits her mother at the cemetery and another special someone she never had the chance to meet.

Ben wakes Jenny on a midnight flight across the ocean. He's an eternal optimist, she's aerophobic. Oh, and it's New Year's Eve. The sky's the limit.

Published in Shorter, Faster, Funnier: Comic Plays and Monologues (Vintage)
Published in Great Short Comedies: Volume 1 (Playscripts)

(10 Min) Thirteen-year-old Samuel Rosenbaum is finally a man. It's the day of his Bar Mitzvah and he's survived reading the Torah, ballroom dancing, and crazy relatives...but will he be able to get the girl?

Published in Great Short Comedies: Volume 2 (Playscripts)

(10 Min) Love is blind...or is it? Marcia is looking for love; Ted taps in. Will it be a match made in heaven, or a case of the blind leading the blind?

Published by Playscripts

(Full-length) One crime. Four high school students. And one angry principal.

Published by Brooklyn Publishers

(10 Min) Boys goes to park. Boy meets Girl on swings. An exploration of finding connections where you least expect them.

Runner Up: International Centre for Women/Playscripts' Are Women Funny? Contest
Published by Playscripts

(One-Act) A seasoned Thespian, a timekeeper, a rule enforcer, and three judges are all in search of the next great high school theatrical star. Together they pick apart the ins and outs and the do's and don'ts of the Educational Theatre Association's annual nationwide competition. Everything you wanted to know about Districts but were too afraid to ask.

(One-minute)
The campfire has been put out, but he wants to stay.