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 Riverside Studios in London and returned to Edinburgh Fringe 2025 at Pleasance Courtyard and published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.

The piece was shortlisted for the BBC x Popcorn Award, won the Stagey Place Awards, and was named Sinner’s Top Pick of the Fringe. 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 audiences and topics together - telling stories between what is seen and unseen, bridging together intellect and feeling, fragility in strength, grace in grief. Her new work - The Institution -explores what happens when the pursuit of transformation becomes a form of control, looking at higher education and other "institutional bedrocks" in society and asking why and at what point they turn from intent, goal driven structures into a system of exploit, control, and pursuit of power and manipulation.

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 our time today are in the shadows we don't want to ask ourselves aloud and in the institutions we spend our lives working so hard to uphold.