Sam Jeffery (she | her)
Certified Intimacy Coordinator, Certified Intimacy Director, Fight Director
Vancouver, Edmonton
Sam Jeffery (she/her) is an intimacy director & coordinator, educator, actor, and award-nominated fight director who was born and raised in ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton, Canada) on Treaty 6 territory and currently lives in Vancouver.
With a special interest in mental and sexual health, Sam has volunteered on crisis lines, co-created productions about addiction and trauma, curated and hosted sex-positive performance events such as the Smut Cabaret, and co-created award-winning films that have toured North America as part of the Hump Festival. She is passionate about bringing joy and a trauma-informed approach that meets folks wherever they are, celebrating how honouring our needs leads to exciting & creative artistic choices.
Sam was the recipient of the 2019 Nordic & Cloutier Family Innovation Award in support of her advancement in the field of Intimacy Direction, and has been honoured to work with professional artists, students, and universities across Canada from coast to coast. She is grateful to be able to grow and apply her practice across Turtle Island alongside so many other wonderful people.
Credits include: Batwoman S3 (Warner Bros. Television/The CW); Bunny (The Search Party); Michael Mysterious (Pyretic Productions); Titus Andronicus (University of Lethbridge); Boticelli in the Fire (ABBEDAM, University of Alberta); The Magicians (NBC/Universal); To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before 3 (Netflix); Darker Than Night 2 (ODP Studio); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Theatre Prospero); Macbeth, Henry V (Malachite Theatre).
It was my first on screen intimacy scene. I was excited but nervous for the unknown. All of my questions, no matter how minute, were answered with care. Sam's presence on set, for that moment, offered a sense of calm, stability and professionalism - which allowed me to do my work with ease.
Natasha Soper, actor in No Apology
Sam was beloved by all the student-actors working on our production. She has a keen eye for dynamic stage pictures and provided the actors with all the tools they needed to create arresting and affective stage fights and to responsibly create moments of intimacy for the stage. Sam is also incredibly intuitive and puts safety first, physical, emotional and mental. I had every confidence in Sam’s ability as a collaborator on this large-scale show!
Jay Whitehead, director of Titus Andronicus & University of Lethbridge Drama Chair