Sam Shore(IV)
- Writer
- Editorial Department
- Producer
Sam is a New Zealand screenwriter with a background in writing and directing theatre. Sam has worked on numerous television shows locally and internationally, including a prime-time drama for Hulu, an international thriller for Acorn TV and a YA series now airing on the BBC. In 2020 Sam developed an original series with production company Sister (Chernobyl, Gangs of London) working alongside Jane Featherstone and Executive Producer Neil Cross and more recently adapted a sci-fi series for "Community" creators Krasnoff Foster Productions, with producers Gary Foster and Russ Krasnoff as well as writing and show-running an original thriller series for CBS, Stampede Ventures and Warner Bros.
Currently, Sam is serving as Executive Producer and running the writer's room as Head Writer on a book-to-series adaptation for an Icelandic production company, which is set to shoot in late 2023.
Sam has also worked as a finalist judge for the Sir Peter Ustinov Award for Scriptwriting from the International Emmys and in addition to screenwriting, spent many years working with at-risk youth and created and led an initiative to promote gay rights in New Zealand. For this work, he received a finalist position in the 2013 Young New Zealander of the Year Awards, one of New Zealand's highest accolades.
Sam is represented by Fictional Entity in Los Angeles.
Currently, Sam is serving as Executive Producer and running the writer's room as Head Writer on a book-to-series adaptation for an Icelandic production company, which is set to shoot in late 2023.
Sam has also worked as a finalist judge for the Sir Peter Ustinov Award for Scriptwriting from the International Emmys and in addition to screenwriting, spent many years working with at-risk youth and created and led an initiative to promote gay rights in New Zealand. For this work, he received a finalist position in the 2013 Young New Zealander of the Year Awards, one of New Zealand's highest accolades.
Sam is represented by Fictional Entity in Los Angeles.