Sam McLaughlin

Sam McLaughlin

Sam McLaughlin is an actor, theatre-maker and improviser based in Bristol. Since graduating from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, she has performed with Missing Pieces and is a company member of the Bristol Improv Theatre's flagship shows: This Is Your Musical and The Bish Bosh Bash. She is a Company Director of Écoute Theatre, an award-winning verbatim theatre company with bases in both Bristol and London, which she co-founded with Zoë Templeman-Young and Catherine Lynch. Their plays include Take Care, first created and performed in 2013, winning the Clive Barker Award (University of Warwick), with runs at both the Edinburgh Fringe and The Courtyard Theatre, London, before being revived at VAULT Festival, London, in 2020.

An astonishing, tragic and uplifting verbatim play about the care system in the UK today.