Samuel Lucas Allen

Samuel Lucas Allen is an award-winning, mostly losing writer and director who works in film, theatre, and anywhere else tall tales are told.

Currently, Sam is in distribution for their film 'Cut', a coming-of-age drama about

Faith, Queerness and the internet alt-right. Cut had its Premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival. It won Best Short Fiction Film at the Buenos Aires International Film Festival and Best Editing at the Canberra Short Film Festival. It was nominated for Best Director and Best Short at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival. Sam’s film 'After Saturn', a devised family drama, took home Best Short Director at the Kansas Arthouse Film Festival and was nominated for Best Director at CinniFest Oz and Best Score at St Kilda. 'Plastic' was nominated for Best Music Video and Best Experimental Film at the ATOM awards and Best Editing of a Music Video. 'Only The Beautiful' saw Sam nominated for Best Director at the Sanford International Film Festival, and their first film, ‘School Night’, was nominated for a Robin Anderson Film Award.

They have directed over 30 productions for stage and screen, including 'The Teaching of Darkness' at Chester St Theatre, 'The Viagra Monologues' at the Blood Moon Theatre, and ’Blood Wedding' at the LendLease Theatre.

At NIDA, Sam directed 'Fool for Love'' by Sam Shepard with the Actors Centre Australia; devised 'SEX DEATH AND THE INTERNET' with the Queensland University of Technology; created and co-directed 'The Invisible Bird', a new opera for Sydney Chamber Opera'; directed and adapted 'Wake in Fright' for their NIDA graduation show; and wrote and directed 'Plastic', a music video for MICRA. After graduating, Sam was commissioned to return to NIDA to write and direct a new production of 'Dracula'.

They are currently in post-production for a new short. They are in development for a TV show and a Feature Film, all focusing on the theme of rebellion in the face of

environmental calamity. Sam aims to continue working in theatre and film, focusing on newly devised films and developing new and established theatre work.

Blood Wedding

Play by Federico García Lorca with Tough kids productions and BACKSTAGE - director

Only the Beautiful

Short film With tough kids productions and uts - Writer and director