Draft:Sammi Cannold

Sammi Cannold is an American Broadway and film director. She is a member of the Forbes' 30 Under 30 in Hollywood and Entertainment list, one of Variety's 10 Broadway Stars to Watch , and one of Town and Country's Creative Aristocracy. She is the recipient of a 2024 Drama Desk Award.

Career
Cannold has a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a Master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Cannold made her broadway debut on 10 December 2023 at the Belasco Theater with the original show How to Dance in Ohio, for which she won a Drama Desk Award. Cannold was trained under Diane Paulus, and Rachel Chavkin, serving as the associate director on the Broadway production of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 and was working at the American Repertory Theater during this time. In 2019, Cannold directed the world premier of Celine Song's Endlings, making her the youngest female director in the American Repertory Theater's history, prior to directing its off-Broadway premier at New York Theater Workshop in 2020. Sammi Cannold also directed the site-specific Ragtime on Ellis Island, Violet on a moving bus , Evita at New York City Center. , and Carmen at Rose Hall, Lincoln Center.

Cannold's Evita at the American Repertory Theater and Shakespeare Theater Company was a critical success.

In 2019, she was named a member of Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 in Hollywood and Entertainment list.

In 2022, Sammi Cannold and Dori Berinstein announced The Show Must Go On, a documentary covering theater production during the Covid Pandemic. The documentary premiered at Broadway's Majestic Theatre on August 9th, 2021 and was released on Apple TV.

Personal Life
Sammi Cannold is in a relationship with Afghan-American humanitarian worker Safi Rauf.