Gold is the Resident Director at the Roundabout Theatre Company. On Broadway, he directed Seminar in 2011, a revival of Picnic in 2013 for the Roundabout Theatre Company, The Realistic Joneses in 2014, and The Real Thing in 2014 for the Roundabout Theatre Company.

He directed Fun Home on Broadway in 2015, in a Public Lab at The Public Theater in October 2012, and Off-Broadway at The Public Theater in 2013. For Fun Home, he won the 2015 Tony Award, Best Direction of a Musical and 2014 Obie Award, Musical Theater.

His Off-Broadway directing work began with The Black Eyed at the New York Theatre Workshop in 2007. He directed The Big Meal by Dan LeFranc in 2012 at Playwrights Horizons and won the 2012 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Director. He directed a revival of Look Back in Anger for the Roundabout Theatre Company in 2012. He directed a staged concert presentation of The Cradle Will Rock for Encores! Off-Center in July 2013. In regional theatre, he directed A Doll's House at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2011. He directed Othello at the Off-Broadway New York Theatre Workshop, starring David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig.

He directed the latest Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie at the Belasco Theatre, which started previews on February 7, 2017. The play stars Sally Field and Joe Mantello. He also directed the new play by Lucas Hnath, A Doll’s House, Part 2 which premiered on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre on April 1, 2017. Sam Gold received a Tony Award nomination for Best Director for his work on A Doll's House, Part 2.

Directing Theatre, Producers and Directors, Entertainers, Tony Award,