Sam Hood Adrain

Sam (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn originally from Providence, Rhode Island. As a theatre artist, Sam has worked on stage and off at companies across the country including MCC Theater, Chickenshed NYC, Infinity Theatre Company, Barrington Stage Company, Dramatist Guild Foundation, FRIGID New York, Missoula Children's Theatre, Ithaca Shakespeare Company, Culture Lab LIC, HERE, IRT, MITU580, The Flea, the cell theatre, Theatre Row, Brooklyn Art Haus, Strongbox Theater, and Audible.com.

Sam is a Founding Co-Artistic Director of What Will the Neighbors Say? Theatre Company, the Associate Producer & General Manager for the Vineyard Arts Project, is a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Marymount Manhattan College and an Artist-in-Residence at NYU's Espacio de Culturas, and a member of the Board of Directors at A.R.T/New York.

He is the recipient of the 2021 BroadwayWorld Award for Best Director of a Regional Production for his direction of The 39 Steps at Strongbox Theater. He is a published playwright whose works have been called "heartbreaking...complex...and thought-provoking" (Theatre is Easy), have been presented in NYC at HERE, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and IRT Theatre, toured to Providence and Toronto, and produced as a radio play by the Cleveland Radio Players. Recent TV credits include Search Party and Law & Order as well as a print campaign for Santander Bank.

At Woodward, Sam will begin work on a new play inspired by a trip to Sarajevo in the Fall of 2023 exploring themes of isolation, humanity, and the things people do to survive the impossible.