Tori Sampson

Boston native Tori Sampson’s plays include If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must be a Muhfucka (Playwrights Horizons, 2019), This Land Was Made (Vineyard Theatre, UPCOMING 2022), and Cadillac Crew (Yale Repertory Theater, 2019). Her plays have been developed at Great Plains Theatre Conference, Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s The Ground Floor residency program, Victory Garden’s IGNITION Festival of New Plays, Playwrights Foundation and Ubuntu Theater.

Tori is a 2017–18 Playwright’s Center Jerome Fellow and a 2018-19 Mcknight Fellow. Two of her plays appeared on the 2017 Kilroys List. Her awards and honors include the 2016 Relentless Award, Honorable Mention; the 2016 Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting from The Kennedy Center; the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, Second Place; the Alliance Theater’s 2017 Kendeda Prize, Finalist; the 2018 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Finalist; and the 2018 National Theater Conference’s Paul Green Award.

Tori is currently working on commissions from Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company and Playwrights Horizons. She holds a BS in sociology from Ball State University and an MFA in playwriting from Yale School of Drama. Tori currently writes for Amazon Prime’s Solos and Hunters and an upcoming Showtime drama series. torisampson.com