(she/her/hers)

Intimacy Director, The Tempest; Revenge Song

Samantha is an intimacy director, fight director, actor, and teaching artist. She is delighted to be making her debut this season at OSF. She is based in the Midwest region and travels to perform in and fight/intimacy/movement direct productions internationally. Samantha is a Certified Intimacy Director with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators. A Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors and an Intermediate Actor Combatant with Fight Directors Canada. A Jeff award–nominated fight choreographer. An award-winning actor. A certified Michael Chekhov teacher with the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium. Regionally, Samantha has worked with theatres such as Asolo Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Prague Shakespeare Company (Czech Republic), Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Cleveland Play House, among others. She has her MFA from Florida Atlantic University. SamanthaJKaufman.com