Maybe You Could Love Me
Sajida and Noor have been best friends since they were little, but is their love romantic? Could it be, since their Islamic sect prohibits homosexuality? This new play looks at freedom, love, and belonging between two women from elementary school to adulthood.
Samah is a Muslim Playwright and Screenwriter. Her work breaks the rules, aiming to illuminate and cherish the inner rebel inside us all. Samah is a member of the 2025 Queerframes Lab; she pitched her feature QURAN CAMP with the program at the European Film Market in early 2025. She is also a member of the 2024-2025 Geffen Writers’ Room and New West Playwrights. Her play MAYBE YOU COULD LOVE ME will be produced at Theater Mu and Mixed Blood Theater this Fall. Her work was featured on three Black List Diversity lists in 2024 (GLAAD, Muslim, and Georgia). QURAN CAMP was a 1497 Feature Lab Finalist and was on the MUBI/WScripted Second Annual Cannes Screenplay List. Samah was the Writer’s Assistant on ABC/Hulu’s GOOD AMERICAN FAMILY. She was the Showrunner’s Assistant to Katie Robbins on A24/Apple TV+’s SUNNY. Samah received her MFA in Screenwriting/Playwriting from Northwestern University. She is represented by Amplified Management and IAG.
ELIZABETH HERRON: Director/Actor/Producer/ AEA/SAG-AFTRA and proud member of the Road, Interact (served on the Board for 4 years), Rogue Machine and Topanga Theatre Companies and two seasons of Circle X’s Writer’s Reading Group. The past two years, she has Co-Produced the Under Construction Playwright’s Lab at the Road. In recent years, she has directed for the Road Theatre’s Summer Playwright’s Festivals: SPF ’24 Some Other Woman Like Me and SPF ’23 Let Me See Your Beauty- both by Katherine Swan, the Road’s ’25 WORD Reading, Juliet & Romeo by Ladd Sullivan and the Road’s Under Construction Playwright’s Lab/ UC ’23 The Zone of Death by Anna Watts and UC’24 Cornchip by Elise Wein and A Marriage of Inconvenience by Tony Blake at the Interact’s Play Lab and H-O-R-S-E by Kathleen Cahill at the Topanga Actor’s Company. She Assistant Directed Carlyle King for the Road Theatre’s ’23 Production of Bisexual Sadness and was Executive Producer/ Asst. Dir. to Ken Sawyer on The Woman in Black at the Road and Coronet (Ovation & LADCCAwards) + Asst. Dir. for Paris Barclay/Ken Sawyer on One Red Flower at the Rubicon & Brentwood. As an Actor, Liz, most recently performed, this past April, as an Alternate in the Road’s The Totality of All Things, H-O-R-S-E SPF ’24 and in staged readings in ‘25 of The Patriots, Clue and Love, Loss and What I Wore at TAC. Over the years, she has acted in multiple Ovation and LA Weekly Award winning productions at the Road, The Interact, Actor’s Co-op and the LA LGBTQ Center’s Valentini Theatre. At the Road: Through the Eye of the Needle (US), The Lyons, Homefree (NoHo Fringe Festival- Best Play), Pursued by Happiness, A Christmas Carol, Shove (LA Weekly Nom-ADA Nom -Best Actress) and Angels of Lemnos. At the Actor’s Co-Op in Rope; The LA LGBT Center: Search for Signs of Intelligent Life- Revisited, The Laramie Project- 10 Years Later, Deathtrap (LAWeekly- Best Revival); at the Interact: The State of the Union, The Matchmaker, Urinetown (LA Weekly Award- Best Ensemble), Our Town ( ADA Best Ensemble.) Films: WILSON, produced and acted in AMERICAN CHRISTMAS, TRUE ADOLESCENTS, the Short Film ENOUGH ROOM + USC and AFI student films. She holds her DDS /U of Wa., MFA: Cal Arts & Asolo State Theatre/FSU and is ever grateful to daughter, Katie, and husband, Chris, for their love and
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“Maybe You Could Love Me”
Sajida – Krishna Smitha*
Noor – Ivy Khan*
Stage Directions – Janet Chamberlain*
Talkback Moderator – Cherish Monique Duke*
*Road Company Member