(production assistant) received his M.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from Brown University 2006, and his BA from Franklin and Marshall College in Theatre, Religion, and International Studies 2004. He designed and directed Salome at Brown University's Production Workshop (April 2006). He assisted Ibrahim Quraishi of the Compagnie Faim de Siecle (Paris-New York) in 5 Streams for the initial two treatments at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (September 2005) and the Asia Society in New York (January 2006). He assisted Richard Gough (U.K) with his Performance Banquet and Gil and Moti (Israel) with their performance/installation Laylah, The Creature Beyond Dreams at the 11th Performance Studies International conference (March 2005). Prior to coming to the United States, he performed in Jean Paul Sartre's Men Without Shadows (Urdu) at the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, and directed Yasmina Reza's ART at the Rafi Peer International Theatre Festival in Lahore, Pakistan (1999). He performed in Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs done as a roof-top installation in downtown Lahore as well as at the Alliance Francaise, Krapp`s Last Tape at the Falaki Theatre in Cairo, Egypt (May 2003). As a scholar Samdani has conducted research in Konya, Turkey, comparing the 'sema (sacred audition; trance movement) rituals of the contemporary Mevlevi order with those practiced in Pakistan. He has translated Samuel Beckett's Endgame into Urdu (Summer 2005) and is currently formulating a technique for translating Urdu poetry, specifically the form known as the ghazal into English.