Writer/director/singer-songwriter Sam Shaber grew up in New York City, daughter of screenwriter David Shaber (THE WARRIORS, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER). She’s currently at work on her first directorial feature, a comedy based on a true story set in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her earlier scripts have won honors at Austin Film Festival, Final Draft Big Break Contest, CineStory, The Writer’s Lab, and more.

As a singer-songwriter, Sam’s toured over 200,000 miles and released 12 independent albums, both solo and with her bands The Happy Problem, The Good People of Planet Earth, and The Bashful. She just completed a 20th anniversary tour of her 2003 album eighty numbered streets which was produced by platinum-selling artist Shawn Mullins (“Lullaby”) and she’s had hundreds of song placements in film and TV, including shows Sleepy Hollow, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Teen Mom, and the film BUTTER, starring Olivia Wilde, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Garner and Alicia Silverstone.

As a live storyteller, Sam’s performed in and co-hosted storytelling events across LA and New York with The Moth, UCB, and more. Her multimedia, musical storytelling show Sam Shaber: Life, Death & Duran Duran earned 5-star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe then sold out theatres in LA and New York.

Sam is also the creator and host of IVFU, a podcast about the pain, joy, angst and love of trying to make a family the “new-fashioned” way which has now inspired her TV pilot of the same name. She lives with her husband, writer-producer George Strayton, and son Darwyn, dividing her time between Los Angeles and Edinburgh.