Sam Peter Jackson was born in Germany in 1978.
He trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama and as a writer on the Royal Court Young Writers Programme.
After various roles in the theatre and on TV (most notably as Richard Sonnenfeldt in Channel 4’s Bafta-winning ‘Nuremberg’) he wrote ‘Minor Irritations’ in 2005, 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.
An excerpt of his second play ‘Public Property’ was showcased at the Hampstead Theatre, which lead to it being workshopped by Old Vic New Voices and getting a rehearsed reading at the Old Vic in 2008. A full production of “Public Property” ran at the Trafalgar Studios in Nov/Dec 2009 starring Nigel Harman, Robert Daws and Steven Webb, directed by Hanna Berrigan. The play was nominated as Best New Comedy in the 2010 WhatsOnStage Awards. - Click here for reviews.
Sam is an active member of the The Factory, an innovative new theatre company best known for its underground performances of Hamlet and The Seagull. In 2009 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 addition to working on his third full-length play, he has just finished filming “The Other Michael Jackson: Battle of the Boogie”, a documentary about his father, for the Channel 4 First Cut series, which he is presenting and co-writing. The programme will air in February 2010 and is directed by Patrick Nation.
Sam is natively bilingual (English/German) and regularly works as a voice over artist in both languages. He is also an occasional columnist for Beige Magazine and The Drama Student Magazine.
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