
Sam grew up in a creative household in small-town Germany and moved to London at the age of 19, where he studied acting at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. As an actor he most notably appeared in the BAFTA-winning “Nuremberg – Goering’s Last Stand”, but soon moved to playwriting to follow his passion for telling comedic stories with LGBTQ+ themes.
His play Public Property ran at Trafalgar Studios in the West End and earned him a 2010 WhatsOnStage Award nomination. In the same year Sam co-wrote and presented the acclaimed Channel 4 documentary First Cut: The Other Michael Jackson (about his father singer/songwriter Mick Jackson), which started a move towards film. Since then he has written and directed six short films, as well as worked as a MoCap Performance Director on the 2018 VR film Lucid, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
His latest short Clothes & Blow screened at over 20 festivals, won 4 international awards and was released by Peccadillo Pictures as part of Boys On Film 21: Beautiful Secret on DVD/BluRay and via Dekkoo on Amazon Prime worldwide.
He loves classic 80s romcoms and indie auteur dramedies. Some of his favourite directors are Pedro Almodovar, Joachim Trier, Lynn Shelton, Noah Baumbach, Mike Mills, Kenneth Lonergan and Richard Linklater.
The bi-annual 2025 Script Pipeline Pitch Contest is searching for original feature film and TV series ideas to be developed into screenplays and pilots.
The 24th Annual Script Pipeline Screenwriting Contest is searching for extraordinary writers with feature screenplays across all genres.
The 19th Annual Script Pipeline TV Writing Contest is searching for extraordinary writers with original television pilots or unproduced indie series scripts.
Just a few months after the contest announcement, 2025 Screenwriting semifinalist Nick Porisch signed with manager Jake Wagner (Alibi Management). Pipeline execs helped Nick develop his Semi-placing script Beautiful Morning prior to pitching direct to Jake. From Nick: “Working with Script Pipeline has been an incredible and super rewarding process. They’ve been helpful and supportive […]
A top 10 finalist in the 2023 Screenwriting Competition, Buzzkill by Colin McLaughlin is set to be produced! Joe Lynch will direct, with Billy Magnussen (Game Night) and Lulu Wilson (Becky) to star. Read more on Deadline. Colin's horror/comedy was lauded by Pipeline execs as "one of the freshest spins on a horror concept we've […]
Script Pipeline finalist Nick Grant has signed with Zack Zucker (Bellevue) after introductions by Pipeline. The Pipeline team helped develop Nick's top-5 script POV before circulation to Bellevue and other managers. He signed with Zack only a few weeks after. Nick was also a finalist this year with a pilot (Cul-De-Sac), marking only the second […]
