About
[a brief summary. or an unnecessarily lengthy one, depending on your perspective.]
Samantha Chanse's work* has been presented with Ars Nova, Ma-Yi Theatre Company, the Los Angeles International Film Festival, the deYoung Museum, the NY International Fringe Festival, Asian American Writers' Workshop, Bowery Poetry Club, Kearny Street Workshop, The Marsh, Asian American Theater Company, Bindlestiff, and many a nonprofit art space, dimly-lit bar, & brightly-lit cafe.
She is a member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, and a former member playwright of San Francisco PlayGround.
She is the recipient of an emerging artists residency from Tofte Lake Center, an Individual Artist Commission from the San Francisco Arts Commission, and other Great Honors.
She co-founded multidisciplinary & bicoastal artist salon series Laundry Party, served as KSW’s artistic director, and has embarked on a bicoastal lifestyle to pursue a MFA in playwriting at her native NYC's Columbia University, where she also teaches writing to undergraduate students.
*Her work consists primarily of plays, solo performances, and some film.
(Also, she creates some music/audio stuffs, and enjoys parenthetical spaces.)
