Managing Editor

Samantha Stone is a writer, theatre artist, and educator. She received a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communications from the George Washington University and an MFA in Playwriting from Fordham/Primary Stages program. She currently teaches composition writing, literature, and oral communications at Fordham, the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) and Writopia Lab. Her work focuses on creating literature and theatre for social change by shedding light on prominent issues through new lenses. She writes fiction, creative nonfiction, plays, and screenplays, and is currently working on a novel among various dramatic projects. 

In early 2025, Samantha published a children’s book, The Kitchen Magician, suitable for readers ages 4-8, with Nightingale Books, an imprint of Pegasus Publishers. Her award winning one-act play, Negative Space, made its world premiere at the Gene Frankel Theatre Festival in the summer of 2025 and her play, Finding Olive, premiered at the SheNYC Summer Theater Festival two years prior. While at Fordham, her play, Tommy’s Girls, premiered in April 2018 at the Walkerspace at Soho Rep. The previous year her one-act, Why I Don’t Sleep, was presented in the Primary Stages Studios. This play was also a finalist for the Ivoryton Playhouse’s POWER PASSION PROSE Women Playwrights’ Initiative for 2018. Her play The Third Space Theory was a finalist for the Leah Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers in 2019. Her first full-length play, The Muscle in Question, made its world premiere at the 20th annual New York International Fringe Festival in 2016.

Samantha is drawn to naturalistic and evocative text that prioritizes setting and character over action and plot. Some of her favorite books include A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, The Hour of the Star and Água Vive by Clarice Lispector, The Hours by Michael Cunningham, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin, Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White, and the play W;t by Margaret Edson. She also loves the multigeneric work of Nora Ephron, Vivian Gornick, and Renata Adler, and the plays of Annie Baker, Rajiv Joseph, Martyna Majok, and Lillian Hellman.

Her website is samanthajunestone.com and she can be found on instagram @samanthajunestone.

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