An alumnus of the USC Filmic writing program, the Groundlings School and the Warner Bros. Comedy Writing Workshop, Sammy is the screenwriter of the upcoming feature Red Hook and co-writer of the sci-fi anthology film Fade to White (both directed by Elizabeth Lucas). An Emmy Award-winning member of the TV Land Awards website writing team, he has also written the trivia games for Star Trek and M*A*S*H on tvland.com.

He is also an accomplished theatre writer. He wrote the book and lyrics of Like You Like It (composer Dan Acquisto), a teen-based adaptation of As You Like It set at the mall in the 1980s. It was a hit both at the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) and the Cardiff International Musical Theatre Festival, and won the National Music Theater Network's New Voices Prize. THe show is slated for production October 18 - November 2 at The Gallery Players.

Most recently, he and composer Dan Acquisto wrote and were featured in The Seven-Year B*tch *an anniversary concert of two never-was has-beens, which was named as an Outstanding New Musical in Talkin’ Broadway’s 2007 Summer Theatre Festival Citations.

He was commissioned to write the book for Common Grounds, a unique dance-musical collaboration among five top choreographers, for NYMF '06. The production earned runner-up for the Festival's Most Promising New Musical prize.

Other theatre works include the play Barry the Hatchet (All Out Arts Festival, Jerome Foundation Grant) and the short musical 51 in Raw Impressions (Paul Scott Goodman, composer/lyricist).

He is a member of BMI and The Dramatists Guild, Inc.

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