Samantha Chanse is a writer & performer, teacher, and arts organizer who's been based in San Francisco since 2001. Her work has been presented with the NY International Fringe Festival, Kearny Street Workshop, The Marsh, Asian American Theater Company, Footloose/Shotwell Studios, Bindlestiff, and others. She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Commission from the San Francisco Arts Commission, resulting in the 2008 SF/NY productions of her first solo play, Lydia’s Funeral Video. In 2009, she started performing a new solo show, Back to the Graveyard, for which she received an Artist In Motion residency from Footloose/Shotwell Studios. She co-founded multidisciplinary artist salon series Laundry Party, served as KSW’s artistic director, and recently embarked on a bicoastal lifestyle to pursue a MFA in playwriting at her native NYC's Columbia University. www.samanthachanse.com.

In the last few years she's also written and performed plays & theater pieces, including Lydia's Funeral Video, which was produced in 2008 at the Dark Room in San Francisco, and directed by Wilma Bonet. The play was produced again in August 2008 at the Milagro Theater in New York as part of the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival, and was directed by Thoams Connors. Her first play, "what good intentions," was produced in 1999 at Rites and Reason Theater in Providence, RI; more recently, she developed her newest solo show, Back to the Graveyard, for a September 2008 performance at Intersection for the Arts as Featured Artist for KSW's APAture festival; the show was subsequently produced by Bindlestiff Studio at the Thick House in April 2009, by Footloose/Shotwell in January and May 2009, and by the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center at SomArts in May 2009. Other past work includes a 2005 production of her full-length play Sleeper (a chronicle of the return of the remarkable), with Asian American Theater Company and Bindlestiff Studio; co-writing & co-producing Pipe Dreams and Paper Trails at Bindlestiff; and having a staged reading of one-acts at Calaveras Repertory Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre.