Samah Meghjee
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Samah Meghjee is a comedy writer currently based in Atlanta, GA. She graduated from Emory University with degrees in English & Creative Writing and Film & Media Studies in May of 2020. In 2016, her and her twin sister Salwa produced, directed, and eventually published their children’s comedic play The Mysterious Mystery of the Lost Letters (Brooklyn Publishers). In 2019, the twins’ short film Therapist Speed Dating, a comedy sketch, premiered on Amazon Prime Video. She has interned for the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, GA, and has worked in India as a Media Volunteer and Video Editor for the Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project, a rural school serving students in the lowest socioeconomic class. She also worked as a Video Editor for Ideas United, a creative agency, editing videos for DC Comics, YouTube, NCAA, and more. Since graduating, Samah has been working on her short film Bad Muslims, which received the Emory Center for Creativity and Arts Grant and the David Goldwasser Religion and the Arts Grant. She enjoys thrift shopping, eating ice cream, reading in hammocks, and biking downhill.