Sam Brooks is an award-winning playwright and dramatist. Brooks' work has twice earned him the Playmarket B4 25 New Zealand Young Playwright award. In 2014, Metro Magazine named Brooks "Auckland's Most Exciting Playwright". He won the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award in 2016.

Brooks currently works as the Culture Editor at The Spinoff, an online commentary and opinion magazine. He has also written for the Pantograph Punch, Metro Magazine, and the NZ Herald..

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