Samantha Bailey (born 1989) is an American writer, producer, director, and actress. She is known for the web series You're So Talented and Brown Girls. Bailey was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, in the Logan Square neighborhood. She began stage acting as a teenager and received her bachelor's degree from Columbia College Chicago. After graduation, Bailey began acting professionally in the city's theater community. She was frustrated by the quality of roles she was cast in and used that frustration to inform writing a sketch that would become You're So Talented. She rose to prominence for the self-produced web series, a semi-autobiographical story about a struggling 25-year-old actress in Chicago. It was her first time directing and writing. You're So Talented was nominated for a Gotham Award in 2015. In 2017 she co-produced the w...read more