Sam Woof

they/them

Freelance theatre maker working as a composer/writer/director. Artistic Director of GOYA, which focuses on new music theatre. Interested in contemporary queer stories. The Stage's Fringe Five 2023. JMK Runner Up 2024.

Credits

WRITER, Actually Love, Orange Tree Theatre, 1 night, 2024
DIRECTOR, The Visit, Rose Bruford College, 1 week, 2024
WRITER/DIRECTOR, Four Felons and a Funeral, Birmingham Hippodrome/Pleasance London/Mercury Colchester/North Wall, 3 weeks, 2024
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Blizzard, Soho Theatre/59E59 NYC, 6 weeks, 2024
WRITER/DIRECTOR, Satyrs: a new opera, Royal Academy of Music, 1 night, 2024
WRITER/DIRECTOR, Four Felons and a Funeral, North Wall/Other Palace/King’s Head/Pleasance Courtyard, 6 weeks, 2023
WRITER, Actually Love, Clapham Omnibus/Pleasance Courtyard, 4 weeks, 2023
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Swell, Orange Tree Theatre, 5 weeks, 2023
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Circle, Orange Tree Theatre, 5 weeks, 2023
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Top Hat, The Mill at Sonning, 5 weeks, 2022
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Something in the Air, 5 weeks, 2022
WRITER/COMPOSER/DIRECTOR, Sex with Friends, Pleasance Courtyard, 3 weeks, 2022
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Nell Gwynn, The Rose Theatre at Rose Bruford, 1 week, 2021
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Dead Dog in a Suitcase, Studio Theatre at Rose Bruford, 1 week, 2021
WRITER/COMPOSER/DIRECTOR, Smart Casual: A New Musical, North Wall/Above the Stag/The Cockpit, 3 weeks, 2021
DIRECTOR, Merrily We Roll Along, Oxford Playhouse, 1 week, 2020
DIRECTOR, Crave, Michael Pilch Studio, 1 week, 2019
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Enron, Oxford Playhouse, 1 week, 2019
COMPOSER/MD, Fine Thanks, C-Main Edinburgh, 2 weeks, Savoy Theatre, 1 night, 2019.

Training

Higher Certificate in Music, Guildhall.
MFA in Theatre Directing from Birkbeck College, University of London.