Biography

Sammi Cannold is a Broadway, film, and television director who is one of Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 in Hollywood & Entertainment, one of Variety's 10 Broadway Stars to Watch, one of Town & Country's Creative Aristocracy, and a Drama Desk Award winner. In 2025, she made her episodic directing debut helming Episode 2204 of Grey's Anatomy, was named a Sundance Writers Intensive Fellow, and was selected for Dolby and Antigravity Academy's Short Film Studio. Alongside her husband, she is developing her first feature film, The Homecoming, with the Sundance Institute. In theater and opera, she has directed over 15 full-scale productions on Broadway, at the Kennedy Center, at Lincoln Center, and beyond. Additional: A.R.T. Artistic Fellow, member of Cirque du Soleil's Creative Cognoscenti, Sundance Institute Theater Fellow, and work for CBS, ABC, Nickelodeon, and Apple TV+. B. A., Stanford University; M.A., Harvard University.
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