BIOGRAPHY
Sam Marks
(he/him) A.R.T.: The Arboretum Experience. World Premieres include The Delling Shore at the Humana Festival; The Old Masters at Steppenwolf Theatre Company; The Joke (dir. Sam Gold) at Studio Dante; and Cells at the Huntington Summer Workshop. Additional New York productions include Brack’s Last Bachelor Party at 59 E. 59th; Nelson with Partial Comfort Productions, and Craft at The Flea. For TV, Marks completed a pilot for HBO produced by Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci, and Wren Arthur’s Olive Productions. He has also developed several series, including working with Phillip Seymour Hoffman for CBS studios. Marks is writing the book for a musical based on Steve Earle’s album Washington Square Serenade. He attended the 2016 Sundance Theater Lab in Morocco to present his play, White Lightning. He collaborated with Simon McBurney and Theatre Complicité on their most recent show, The Kid Stays in the Picture. Marks is under commission from Playwrights Horizons and is a playwriting fellow at the Huntington Theatre Company. He was the 2015 recipient of the A.R. Gurney Playwriting Award. His plays have received workshops at The Atlantic Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, New York Stage and Film, The Rattlestick, and many other theaters. His work is available from Samuel French and Playscripts, Inc.