Sam trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama and as a writer on the Royal Court Young Writers Programme.
In 2005 he wrote Minor Irritations, which became the first play to receive the Pleasance Theatre's Charlie Hartill Special Reserve. It was performed to critical acclaim in Edinburgh, London, Guildford (Yvonne Arnaud) and Dublin, where he was nominated for the 2006 Oscar Wilde Award for Writing.
Sam is an active member of the The Factory, an innovative new theatre company. Sam’s short play Charity was included in the Factory’s new writing show Round One at the Pleasance Theatre, Electricity Showrooms and the Hampstead Theatre studio in January 2009.
He is currently writing his third full-length play and filming The Battle of the Boogie, a documentary about his father, for the Channel 4 First Cut series, which he is presenting and co-writing.
He is also an occasional columnist for Beige Magazine and The Drama Student Magazine.