Sam Forman, born in 1977, is from Newton, Mass. He planned after high school to attend the Nobel and Greenough School for six years and to study acting and writing for the stage in college. His theatrical performances include featured roles in Burn This, The Boys Next Door, Tartuffe and a production of Twelfth Night at Oxford University's Pembroke College. He has written five one-act plays and one novel entitled Car Trips and Day Trips: a melo-history. His script for Newton's Second Law was workshopped and performed at Choate Rosemare Hall. Newton's Second Law is his first published work.