Bianca Sams is a Writer/Actor/Director. Her work spans different genres and mediums (plays, television and feature films). Her original pieces are often described as lyrical investigations of found stories out of today's headlines or the pages of history, that ask audiences to face their own complex love affair with misery. She’s drawn to stories that question the roles of women, ethnicity, and family in modern society. Her work often deals with the search for “self” in the collective identity and also explore the underlying connective threads of mankind. 

She received her MFA in Playwriting at Ohio University and her BFA from New York University's Tisch School, where she earned the distinction of being Tisch's first ever Triple Major (Acting, Dramatic Writing, Africana Studies). Awards and honors include Ingram New Works Fellow (Nashville Rep), Warner Brothers TV Writing Workshop, KCACTF Lorraine Hansberry (2nd place), Rosa Parks Award (2nd place), Kennedy Center/Eugene O’Neill New Play Conference fellow, Jane Chambers Student Playwright Award/Athe (2nd place 2013 & 2014), Scott McPherson Playwright Award, The Playwright Center Core Apprentice (2014), Playwright Foundation BAPF (finalist), Eugene O’Neill NPC (semi- finalist), TRI Research Fellowship at Ohio State University, and T. S. Eliot Acting Fellowship, Tracking Board 2016 Young & Hungry List, WriteHerList 2017 and Tracking Board HIT LIST 2018. 

As a writer, she’s worked on Training Day on WB/CBS TV starring Bill Paxton, The Originals on the CW with Julie Plec & Jeffrey Lieber. Titans for DC.com/WB/Berlanti.  Don’t Look Deeper -- directed by  Catherine Hardwicke starring Don Cheadle, Helena Howard, and Emily Mortimer. She’s was a Supervising-producer on Charmed for CW.  As an Actor, Bianca worked in commercials, video games , voice over, regional theater (Ruined, In the Continuum) and feature films (Rent).  Bianca is represented by Echo Lake Management, FFKS Law Firm and Verve.