Sammi Cannold is an American film and theater director.
[4] She made her Broadway debut in 2023, at the Belasco Theater with How to Dance in Ohio,[5][6] which earned her the Drama Desk Award.
Cannold was trained under Diane Paulus, and Rachel Chavkin, serving as the associate director on the Broadway production of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, as well as working at the American Repertory Theater.
[7] In 2019, Cannold directed the world premier of Celine Song's Endlings, making her the youngest female director in the American Repertory Theater's history, prior to directing its off-Broadway premier at New York Theatre Workshop in 2020.
[13][14] In 2022, Cannold and Dori Berinstein announced a documentary, The Show Must Go On, which premiered at Majestic Theatre on August 9, 2021 and was released on Apple TV.