Samantha Ipema is a writer, actor, director, and producer. Her play Dear Annie, I Hate You premiered at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe to critical acclaim, with The Stage hailing Ipema's work as "Masterly". Following its debut, the play transferred to a sold-out standing ovation at Riverside Studios in London and was published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.

The piece is nominated for 7 awards at the BroadwayWorld West End/UK Debut 2025 Awards, won 3 Stagey Place Awards and Sinner’s Top Pick of the Fringe, and was shortlisted for the BBC x Popcorn Award. Ipema has been featured in interviews on BBC Radio 4’s Women’s Hour and The Theatre Channel. She has received grant support from Arts Council England and her company, Wild Geese Productions, is developing future tours in the UK, US, Spain, and beyond.

As an actor, Samantha trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (MA Classical Acting) and Stella Adler Studio Conservatory. Her work and interest spans across multi-media storytelling and focuses on bridging new audiences and topics together - what is seen and unseen, bridging intellect with feeling, fragility with strength, grace with grief. Her new work, The Institution, explores when the pursuit of 'greatness' becomes a form of control, looking at higher education and other "institutional bedrocks" in society and asking what makes them often turn from integrity-led, goal driven structures into exploit, abuse, and systems in pursuit of control and power.

She is always looking for a unique way, place, and stage to bring uncommon commercial storytelling to the public and believes that the most important stories for today are in the ones that reveal ourselves - that we are the very problem, the cure, and the solutions to everything we make and have made all along.