Sam Shaber Resumé
W Hollywood, CA 90069
917.453.0502, sammy.shaber@gmail.com
imdb.com/name/nm5287038
www.samshaber.com
DIRECTING
MY MOTHER THE STALKER 2026 Short Post-production
PEEPING MAUREEN 2025 Scenes Test shots
SCREENWRITING
Awards/Honors:
PEEPING MAUREEN (feature script):
WINNER: Best Screenplay, 2026 London Independent Film Awards
WINNER: Best Screenplay, 2026 California Women’s Film Festival
WINNER: Best Screenplay, 2025 Toronto International Women Film Festival
2025 Finalist, Feel the Reel Film Festival
2025 Top 3% on Coverfly
2025 Quarterfinalist, The Writers Lab
Ed Fringe (pilot script):
2024 Semifinalist, Austin Film Festival
2023 Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival
IVFU (pilot script):
2024 Quarterfinalist, Final Draft Big Break
2023 Semifinalist, Cinestory
MUSIC
Albums:
2017: Life, Death & Duran Duran
2010: Venture
2003: eighty numbered streets
2016: Birth
2008: the happy problem
2000: Sam*pler
2014: The Good People of Planet Earth
2007: Sassy
1999: perfecT
2011: Head Case
2006: in my bones
1997: In the Bunker
Song licenses (partial list):
TV: Sleepy Hollow (Fox), Privileged (CW), Switched at Birth (Freeform), Keeping Up with the Kardashians (E!), MTV Real World (MTV), Wildfire (ABC Family), Bad Girls Club (Oxygen), Teen Mom (MTV), Stoked (Cartoon Network), 16 and Pregnant (MTV), Greek (ABC Family)
Film: BUTTER (Weinstein Co. – starring Jennifer Garner, Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde), MY MAN IS A LOSER (Lionsgate – starring John Stamos)
Shows performed with: Richie Havens, John Mayer, Jennifer Nettles, Shawn Mullins
THEATER/STORYTELLING
Life, Death & Duran Duran – solo original musical
2017: Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh Festival Fringe (world premiere)
5-stars, British Theatre Guide, Pick of the Fringe
2018: Los Angeles, CA: Hollywood Fringe Festival
Hollywood Producers Encore Award, Pick of the Fringe, Critics' Choice
2019: New York City, NY: LadyFest Theater Festival
Sold out run
The Moth Radio Hour – GrandSlam finalist, winner, Mainstage performer
Additional storytelling performances (partial list): UCB Theatre (Hollywood, CA); Sit n’ Spin (Hollywood, CA); Word Up (Pasadena, CA); Spark Off Rose (Pacific Palisades, CA); Bada Bing Bada Boom (Hollywood, CA); Story Salon (North Hollywood, CA); Rant n’ Rave at Rogue Theatre (Venice, CA); Acme Theatre (North Hollywood, CA), Open Space (Hollywood, CA)
PODCASTING
IVFU: 2 seasons, 25 episodes
Ivfupodcast.com
Description: IVFU features no-holds-barred, candid conversations about making families the new-fashioned way. Host Sam Shaber, a mother via egg donor and surrogate, introduces you to a diverse group of people, (straight, gay, lesbian, and single intended parents), who talk about building their families through IVF, adoption, fostering, donor sperm and eggs and much more, from the darkest moments of doubt to the warmest feels of joy, and all the identity-challenging, life-changing moments in between.
WRITING
Magazines/Newspapers/Online features: Southeast Review, Musician Magazine, Edinburgh Evening News, Performing Songwriter, Acoustic Guitar, Home Recording, Fest Magazine, Praxair News, Westchester County Spotlight, The Doyenne, Harmony-Central.com (1st Person column "Notes from the Road").
Commercial video scripts: Verizon, Discover, Comcast, BistroMD, Capital Group, Amaze Jr., Click Therapeutics, Frye Boots
Books: Songwriting and the Guitar (Stringletter Publishing); also includes chapters by Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, James Taylor.
Associate Creative Director/Senior Copywriter (freelance)
Entertainment: Comcast, Showtime, Paramount Pictures, SiriusXM
Telcom: AT&T, Verizon, Charter Communications, Comcast
Retail/Fashion: Macys, Frye Boots, Revlon, Almay, Elizabeth Arden, 1stdibs.com
Business/Finance: Mastercard, Discover, Capital Group, FIS Global, Xerox, USAA
Publishing: Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, NewsCorp
CPGs: Nutella, Olay, CVS, First Quality
Gaming: Borgata Casino, Arkadium Games, Rovi Corp
Healthcare: Prevail, CVS, Sanofi Pasteur, Boston Scientific