Samy Burch is an American screenwriter. She is known for writingMay December (2023), which was nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Burch was raised inWest Los Angeles and attended theArcher School for Girls.^[1][2] She was exposed to the film industry at an early age through her parents; her mother worked in film casting while her father worked in film development.^[3] Her sister is singerMolly Burch.^[4]

In 2009, Burch graduated from theNew York University Tisch School of the Arts with a bachelor's degree in Dramatic Writing.^[5]

Early in her career, Burch worked in casting, writing audition materials for actors.^[6] She also wrote and directed a series of short films with her now-husband, Alex Mechanik.^[7]

Burch completed the screenplay forMay December, her first feature film, in 2019. The script was inspired by recollections of the 1990stabloid culture of her youth, particularly the case ofMary Kay Letourneau. DirectorTodd Haynes first read the script in 2020 and the completed film premiered on May 20, 2023, at the76th Cannes Film Festival.^[3]

Burch wrote the screenplay for theWarner Bros. family comedy movieCoyote vs. Acme, based on a 1990Ian Frazier humor piece that first appeared inThe New Yorker. It was shelved byWarner Bros. Discovery in November 2023, who reversed its decision a week later after public backlash, but in February 2024, was expected to be deleted and claimed as a tax write-off.^[8][9] On March 10, 2024, Burch told IndieWire at the96th Academy Awards that the film might still be released and conversations were still ongoing.^[10]

In May 2024,Variety reported thatLate Fame, aKent Jones film starringWillem Dafoe with a screenplay by Burch, would begin shooting that fall in New York City.^[11]

In 2023, Burch married Alex Mechanik, with whom she developed the story forMay December. The pair met while studying film at NYU and currently reside in Los Angeles.^[1][12]

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