Sam Collier

  • PhD Student
  • THEATRE
Address

261 UCB, University Theatre Building
Theatre Graduate Office, Room C1B86

Office Hours

Fall 2023 Office Hours: Mondays 10:30-12:30 and by appointment in the grad office

Sam Collier is a PhD candidate in Theatre & Performance Studies, focusing her research on climate change storytelling and interspecies collaboration. Her play A Hundred Circling Camps, which explores the history of American protest camps and election years, was produced at Atlantic Stage 2 in the summer of 2024 by Dogteam Theatre Project. She was a 2023-2024 member of the BETC (Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company) Writers Group, where she developed her play The Light That's Left about mothers and daughters, grief, and climate change. CU Boulder credits include directing Antigone, Presented by the Girls of St. Catherine's and dramaturgy for The RevolutionistsThey Promised Her the Moon, and Climate Cabaret. Sam's plays have been presented and developed around the U.S. and abroad, at New College of Florida, Siena Heights University, Theatre NOVA, Urbanite Theatre's Modern Works Festival, the UC Davis Ground & Field Festival, the Goodman Playwrights Unit, the Berlin Brandenburg International School, and elsewhere. Sam has also taught students of all ages, including with Unity College, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Front Street Writers, Cornell College, and the Traverse City Career Tech Center. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop and co-hosts the playwriting podcast Beckett's Babies.