About

Sammi Cannold is a Broadway, television, and ceremonies director who is one of Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 in Hollywood & Entertainment, one of Variety's 10 Broadway Stars to Watch, one of Town & Country's Creative Aristocracy, and a Drama Desk Award winner. Most recently, she served as the Creative Coordinator on the 2026 Olympic Opening Ceremony, show directed an internationally broadcast ceremony for the FIFA World Cup, made her episodic debut directing Episode 2204 of Grey's Anatomy, and was named a member of the Disney Entertainment Television Directing Program as well as a Sundance Writers Intensive Fellow. In theater and opera, she has directed over 15 full-scale productions on Broadway, at the Kennedy Center (in the before times), at Lincoln Center, and beyond and in the coming months, she will direct musicals premiering at Center Theatre Group and the La Jolla Playhouse. Additional: A.R.T. Artistic Fellow, member of Cirque du Soleil's Creative Cognoscenti, Sundance Institute Theater Fellow, and work for CBS, ABC, Nickelodeon, and Apple TV+. B. A., Stanford University; M.A., Harvard University.