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“Excellent work is put in by Samantha Jeffery … succeeds with giving real heart”
Colin MacLean for Gig City, on After Miss Julie [Lodestar Theatre]
“It’s a disorienting, visceral and immersive stream of consciousness experience, made even more powerful by this quartet of performers. They’ve mastered the script…”
Mel Priestley, on Crave [Stonemarrow Theatre]
“Stand-outs are Sam Jeffery as Macduff... The fighting, though… it’s visceral and wild”
Liz Nicholls for 12th Night, on Macbeth [The Malachites]
Toasting the season on Edmonton stages: the 37th annual Sterling Awards, led by Brick Shithouse
Sam Jeffery wins The Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Outstanding Choreography, Fight/Intimacy Direction
…But it was a new play, produced with visceral bone-crushing physicality in a warehouse, that proved decisively the top choice of jurors at the celebration, named for theatre pioneer Elizabeth Sterling Haynes. Ashleigh Hicks’ Brick Shithouse, which took us into the world of disaffected 20-something underachievers gravitating to the dangerous illusion of online anonymity, picked up six Sterlings of its eight nominations.
Edmonton Fringe Theatre - Intimacy and Innovation: Meet Samantha Jeffery
We sat down with Samantha Jeffery, one of our 2020 Nordic & Cloutier Family Innovation Award recipients. This annual award provides one local artist, group, or company with up to $2,500 in funding towards professional development, training, innovation, and/or special project development.