Sam Affoumado greets Brooke Astor at the Astor Fellowship Reception. The fellowship was awarded to NYC teachers who,
    most effectively, integrated the arts (playwriting) into their classrooms in order to enrich the lives of their students.          
​There were only ten recipients of the travel award to Italy and I was one of the lucky ones. 

                                         Résumé

​EDUCATION
Hunter College, BA Sociology; NYIT, MS (with distinction) Instructional Technology; N.Y.U. Educational Theatre/Advanced Playwriting, Instructor: Professor Laurie Brooks;  NY Public Theatre, Playwriting in the Schools Program, Director: Arthur T. Wilson; The Barrow Group, NYC. Ten-Minute Play Lab/Advanced Playwriting, Mentor: Arlene Hutton

PLAYWRITING HISTORY
Straight-Talking (full length)         Equity Staged Reading,
                                                         Playroom Theater, NY, 2015  
                                                         Semi- Finalist, Unicorn Theater,
                                                         2018 New Play Series,
                                                         Kansas City, Mo.

Under Wraps (full-length)             Equity Staged Reading,                                                                                                Playroom Theater, NY, 2014

​Suds (full-length)                           Equity Staged Reading,
                                                         Producers  Club, NY, 2013                                                                                          Gay Cable Network Production,                                                                                  Lou Maletta - Producer

More Suds (full-length)                  Equity Staged Reading, 
                                                         Playroom Theater, NY 2017

Dummies (full-length)                    Equity Staged Reading,
                                                         The Center  Stage, NY,  2011
                                                         Semi-finalist, Reverie Prods.                                                                                      Next Generation Play Contest

Hel’s Kitchen (full-length)              Equity Staged Reading,                                                                                               The PlayroomTheater, NY, 2018                                                                                   Semi-Finalist, 2016 Inkslinger                                                                                     Playwriting Competition; SLU

Peanut Butter Patty (short)           Semi-Finalist, Samuel French                                                                                     OOB  Short Play Festival, 2012

Home Sweet Home (10-min.)         Finalist, Magnolia Arts Center                                                                                     Play Competition, NC, 2012

The Finalist (10-min.)                     McLean Drama Company. 
                                                         National Play Competition,                                                                                           Washington, DC, 2014

The Bully’s Eye (10-min.)              More 10-Minute Plays for Teens,                                                                                 Applause Theatre & Cinema Books                                                                             Published in December, 2015

One-Way Ticket (One Act)            William Inge Theater Festival                                                                                      Lab production, Kansas, 2018

Dr. Truth (10-min. play)                 Staged Reading, 2017
                                                        Loud and Proud Festival, NYC
​                                                        Manhattan Rep Theater                                                                                                Short Play Festival  Prod, 2018

The Day Room (10-min. play)        Available for premiere

Meeting of the Minds (10-min.)      Available for premiere
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Christopher's Voyage (10-min.)    (TYA) 3rd Place - Spotlight Award,
                                                         Directory of Best Ten Minute Plays of 2019,                                                               A Smith and Kraus Book

​Eddie Potter's Birthday Robot (Short)   TYA

OTHER WRITING/CAREER HISTORY/MEMBERSHIPS
Risk-Runners (AIDS Video Series)  Community Health Project, NY
Theaterlife.com - reviewer/contributing writer (2012 - present)
SPED Teacher/Inclusion Program - NYC Lab School (1991-2008) Astor Fellowship - New York University, 1997
Member - Dramatists Guild, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, TRU
                 New Play Exchange 

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                                Bio

Sam Affoumado is a native New Yorker. He received a BA degree in Sociology at Hunter College with Psychology and Theater minors followed by an MS degree in Instructional Technology at the New York Institute of Technology. He studied Advanced Playwriting with Laurie Brooks at NYU and was a participant in the Playwriting in the Schools Program at the Public Theater under the direction of Arthur T. Wilson. He is an Alum of the Ten Minute and Advanced Playwriting Labs at the Barrow Group mentored by Arlene Hutton.

Sam was a certified Special Educator for the NYC Department of Education for many years. He co-taught inclusion model classes for “special needs” students and championed inclusive education throughout the city. He introduced playwriting to his students as a means of motivating them to improve their reading skills and won an Astor Fellowship for his ‘excellence in teaching’ efforts.

At the height of the AIDS epidemic, he combined his desire to educate the public about AIDS prevention and his theatrical experience by writing RISK-RUNNERS, a series of health education videos, commissioned by the Community Health Project, which included PUPPET POLYCLINIC, a scene where puppets demonstrated the proper use of condoms.

Sam has written seven full-length plays and a dozen short plays. PEANUT BUTTER PATTY  was a semi-finalist in the 2011 Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival in NYC. HOME SWEET HOME, another short piece, was a finalist in the 2012 Magnolia Arts 10-minute play contest in Greenville, NC. Sam’s play, THE FINALIST, was produced in Washington, DC as part of the McLean Drama Company’s 10th Annual 10-Minute National Play Festival. His TYA play, THE BULLY'S EYE, was published in 2015 by Applause Theatre and Cinema Books in an anthology entitled More 10-Minute Plays for Teens, edited by Lawrence Harbison. His play, DOCTOR TRUTH, was performed both at the LGBTQ Community Center and at the Manhattan Rep Theatre's 2018 Short Play Festival. ONE-WAY TICKET, a short political satire, was presented at the William Inge Theatre Festival and conference in May, 2018.

​Sam is also a contributing writer and theater reviewer for theaterlife.com and he is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, Actors’ Equity, SAG-AFTRA, The New Play Exchange and Theatre Resources Unlimited.