Sam Peter Jackson (born 17 March 1978) is a writer/director and actor best known for writing the play "

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", which ran at the

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in London's West End in 2009 starring

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, Robert Daws and Steven Webb and was nominated for a 2010 WhatsOnStage Theatregoers' Choice Award as Best New Comedy. The play was published by Oberon Books. As a filmmaker he wrote/directed the short film "The Bathroom", starring double

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winning actress Janie Dee and acclaimed actor Reece Noi, with music by

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winning composer

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. In total he has written and directed six short films, which have won awards, sold for broadcast and distribution, as well as screened at BAFTA, the BFI and festivals worldwide. Most recently Sam worked as a MoCap Performance Director on Breaking Fourth's VR film Lucid, which premiered at the 2018

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. His latest short film Clothes & Blow is screening at the 43rd

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Festival in

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. It was nominated for the 2018

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Best British Short and won Best Comedy at the 2019 Beeston Film Festival. Jackson's other plays include "Minor Irritations", which was the first play to receive the Pleasance Theatre's Charlie Hartill Special Reserve and was nominated for the 2006 Oscar Wilde Award for Writing, and the short plays "Charity"and "Where I Used To Live", produced by The Factory Theatre Company in London, and "Icarus", produced by

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in New York. As an actor, he has most notably appeared in Channel 4's BAFTA-winning ''Nuremberg - Goering's Last Stand'' and the BBC TV film ''D-Day''. He is also a successful voice over artist in both English and German. Most recently he provided the voice for Tobias Winter for the audiobook of ''

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,'' the latest '' Rivers of London'' novella by

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. Jackson also co-wrote and presented the 2010

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documentary "The Other Michael Jackson: Battle of the Boogie" about his father singer/songwriter Mick Jackson, who wrote the song "

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". To promote the film Sam appeared on

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with his father. Jackson has been described as "a writing talent to watch" by Variety. He is represented by Berlin Associates in London.Sam on Berlin Associates website
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References

External links

Sam's website
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Berlin Associates WebsiteAttitude Magazine interview with Sam Peter Jackson
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