Writer, director and occasional actor Sam Chittenden lives in East Sussex. She creates mainly female-centric and lyrical work, with a touch of the political and/or surreal.
Her piece Clean won Best New Play at Brighton Fringe in 2019, and the musical version won Outstanding Show in 2021. She has also been nominated for the Infallibles Award at Edinburgh Fringe, and selected for the New York Fringe Encore awards.
She is Artistic Director of: Different Theatre.
So You Say
Brighton Fringe, Camden Fringe (2017)
A Ship’s Wake
Criterion New Writing showcase (2025)
Jack
Anita’s Room, Brighton Dome (2024)
Measure 2 Measure
Bridge Theatre (2022); New Venture Theatre (2021)
The Last
Brighton Fringe; Petworth Fringe (2022)
Chemistry
Brighton Fringe (2023); Watford and Hastings Fringes (2021) Nominated for the SoHo Playhouse Fringe Encore series (Off Broadway).
A Weaver’s Thread
Bradford Fringe and mill.tv (2021)
Unsanctioned
New Venture Theatre (2021)
The Little Prince
(book and lyrics) Brighton Fringe; Ropetackle Arts Centre; Thorington Open Air Theatre (2022)
Unquiet Slumbers - The Haunting of Emily Brontë
Brighton Fringe & Haworth Schoolhouse (2020)
Clean (The Musical)
Brighton Fringe; Watford Fringe; Cockpit Theatre (2021)
Clean
Brighton Fringe (2019)
Sary
Brighton Fringe; Edinburgh Fringe (2019). Yellowbook, Brighton; Ropetackle Theatre, Shoreham (2025). Nominated for The Infallibles Award for Theatrical Excellence, 2019
Metamorphosis (2018)
Brighton Fringe (2018); Edinburgh Fringe & SoHo Playhouse Fringe Encore series, Off Broadway (2019)
Underworlds
Brighton Fringe (2017)
Moving Slowly
New Venture Theatre (2017)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Brighton Fringe; Stables Theatre, Hastings; Drayton Arms (2025)
Eutydice
by Sarah Ruhl, New Venture Theatre (2025)
Meet Me At Dawn
by Zinnie Harris, Stables Theatre, Hastings (2024)
An Experiment with An Air Pump
by Shelagh Stephenson, New Venture Theatre (2024)
Bobby & Amy
by Emily Jenkins, The Brighton Little Theatre (2025)
Comment is Free
by James Fritz, Brighton Little Theatre (2019)
Ross & Rachel
by James Fritz, Rialto Theatre, Brighton (2019)
The Language Archive
by Julia Cho, New Venture Theatre (2019)
Antigone
Anne Carson after Sophocles, New Venture Theatre (2017)
The Clean House
by Sarah Ruhl, New Venture Theatre (2016)
Blackbird by David Harrower
by David Harrower, Rialto Theatre, Brighton (2016)
The Arsonists
by Max Frisch, New Venture Theatre (2015)
One, Two, Three
by William Patterson, New Venture Theatre (2013)
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