About the author:
Sam Post is a playwright, writer, publisher, and filmmaker.
He graduated from Wake Forest, with a degree in English, in 1979.
He spent twenty-four years as a teacher and tech facilitator in
the public schools. Currently, he publishes Coffee News, a weekly newspaper, in Salisbury, NC (and surrounding cities).
He received North Carolina Arts Council Regional Artist Grants
twice: once in 1996 for the production of his play, Coffee Therapy, at Spirit Square in Charlotte, NC -- and again in 2006 for funds to make Coffee Therapy, the feature film.
Sam has enjoyed being a playwright-in-residence at Theatre Charlotte for
seven years and has had over a dozen short plays produced there.
The script for Coffee Therapy has been published twice, by two different play publishers (both of which are now out of business).
He's had over forty-five productions of his plays -- mostly short ones
in Charlotte, NC -- but also in various cities around the U.S. and
abroad, including productions of three short plays in New York, a
full-length in Sidney, and two shorts in Minneapolis. Many of his ten minute plays have been produced in high school
and college drama classes. He's had several polite requests from India
for play and film scripts, and he's emailed a
number scripts to India -- but he never heard a thing and doesn't
know whether they were produced or not.
His first film, Kiwi Child (30 minutes; very weird) was made with a cheap mic and no crew. It's s on view here. It was later produced as a one-act play at Theatre Charlotte.
He's posted a few of his shorts, as well as clips from Coffee Therapy, on his YouTube channel. One of these days, he'll put his other short films there.
In 2007, he wrote and directed a sitcom, The Coffee News Guy, for Image TV in North Carolina. The entire episode is available, in four parts, here.
His film, "Coffee Therapy," is available on DVD.
Confessions of a Tabloid Writer is technically his second book. In the mid-'80's, he self-published Rhymeware: For You and Your Computer, an illustrated book of poems for children that explained computer terms.
Now that print-on-demand is available, he's seriously thinking about
selling his video equipment and getting back to the basics. He
may eventually publish some of his other writings, including several
novels, young adult novels, children's books, plays, and poems.
He lives with his wife and family in Salisbury, North Carolina.
