Represented by
Louisa MinghellaSamantha O’Rourke is a BAFTA nominated disabled queer northern writer-director based in North Wales. Recent screen projects include BAFTA qualifying short film 'Jelly' – Ffilm Cymru/BBC Wales/Mad as Birds & original comedy drama 'Mincemeat' for Channel 4/Blacklight, which was nominated for 3 BAFTA Cymru’s including Breakthrough for Sam. She was Writer on Attachment for Liverpool's Everyman Playhouse and part of artist led project Future Forms at the Donmar Warehouse. Other theatre credits include Theatr Clwyd, Volcano Theatre, Boundless Theatre and Dirty Protest. Her play Our Town Needs a Nando’s was recently staged at the Everyman Playhouse in Liverpool. She is currently developing her first feature supported by Ffilm Cymru. Sam was recently selected as part the prestigious BFI Flare x BAFTA mentoring programme, she currently has several original series in development. Sam’s joyfully radical adaptation of Sleeping Beauty will run Storyhouse in Chester for Christmas 2024.
”Mincemeat” On The Edge. Original comedy drama for Channel 4 / BlackLight. (Writer)
Described as a ‘brilliant, brutal one-of’ by The Guardian and nominated for 3 BAFTA’s, Best Actress - Aimee Lou Wood, Best Drama and BAFTA Breakthrough.
“Jelly” Short Film. Ffilm Cymru / BFI / BBC Wales / Mad as Birds - Beacons commission.
Winner of the Chapter Queer Film Prize 2022. Broadcast on Channel 4 and BBC. (Writer & Director)
“The Girl With The Haunted Vagina” BFI Network funded. A surreal comedy about female sexuality starring Sophie Duker and Declan Baxter. (Director) BAFTA Qualifying.
“Sleeping Beauty” Storyhouse, Chester (Christmas 2024)
“Cinderella” Storyhouse, Chester (Christmas 2023)
“The Tenant of Wildfel Hall” (In development) Royal Exchange, Manchester. 2023
“Are you out there World?” dir Ameera Conrad. 20 Stories High, Liverpool. 2023.
”Our Town Needs a Nandos”, dir. Ameera Conrad. Everyman Playhouse main stage,
Liverpool. June 2022
“The Little Prince” (Adaptation) dir. Hannah Noone, Theatr Clwyd.
“Finding Feet” (Curtain Up) dir. Tamara Harvey, Theatr Clwyd.
“On the Horizon” co-written with Michael Patrick & Oisin Kearney for Dirty Protest &
Fishamble. May 2021
MILLIE MILLER AND THE GOLDEN BAGUETTE - dir. Hannah Noone, Theatr Clwyd July 2021
GEORGE’S WONDERFUL LIFE - dir. Hannah Noone, Theatr Clwyd July 2021
BUN MANCHI - Signal Fires, Boundless Theatre. December 2020
BLUEBEARD - Camisado Club / Alphabetti, Newcastle - October 2019
THE PLACE WHERE I LIVE - dir. Gwennan Mair / Hester Evans, Theatr Clwyd -April 2019
UNBIND THE WING - dir. Simon Holland Robert, Pigtown Theatre / National Trust -2018
LIVERPOOL FIRST - dir. Sam O’Rourke, Williamson Tunnels / Everyman Playhouse,
Liverpool -2017
BOXES - dir. Katie O’Callaghan / Matt Rutter, DADAfest / Everyman Playhouse - 2017
NO PERSONS ONLY WOMEN - dir. Sam O’Rourke. Troublemaker’s Festival. Volcano
Theatre, Swansea -July 2017
COMING HOME - dir. Katie O’ Callaghan, DADAFest /Everyman Playhouse -2016
QUANTUM - (co-writer) dir. Matt Rutter, YEP/Everyman Playhouse (main stage). -2016
THE GRAND LIVERPOOL HOTEL - collection of site specific plays. Adelphi Hotel
Liverpool / Everyman and Playhouse. -2016
BAFTA Flare Mentee 2022
- Future Forms at the Donmar Warehouse - 2021
- Royal Court Introduction to Playwriting group -2019/20
- Professional Development Lab - National Theatre Wales - Jan 2020
- Writer in Residence with Theatr Clwyd / Paines Plough - 2019
- Writer at Work - Hay Festival with Literature Wales - 2018/19
- Writer on Attachment - Everyman Playhouse - 2017/18