Samantha Egle, she/her

Samantha is a movement director and instructor specializing in dramatic combat and intimacy for the stage. Samantha has been training and working as a fight director since 2009 and an intimacy director since 2017. She is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors and Certified Intimacy Director with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators.

 She focuses on building consent, facilitating communication and developing affecting moments of physical storytelling on stage. Her work has been seen on the stages of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Opera Colorado, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Phamaly Theatre Company, Colorado Springs Fire Arts Center, Theatreworks, Arvada Center, Curious Theatre, Aurora Fox, Lone Tree Arts, Denver Children’s Theatre, Athena Project Festival, Lagoon Theme Park, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Colorado Boulder, and numerous other educational institutions and numerous other educational institutions in Colorado. She is a certified Pilates instructor and the owner of Humble Warrior Movement Arts LLC through which she produces online stage combat courses with teachers and students around the world: humblewarriormovement.com.

She has trained and received certifications in dramatic combat with the Society of American Fight Directors, Fight Directors Canada, the Society of Australian Fight Directors Inc., the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat as well as the Nordic Stage Fight Society. She was an apprentice with Intimacy Directors International.  She has trained in conflict facilitation, diversity and inclusion with Building Bridges. She served as the regional representative for the Rocky Mountain Region within the Society of American Fight Directors. She additionally serves as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the International Order of the Sword and the Pen and producer of the Paddy Crean International Workshop and Virtual Paddy Crean Workshop.  She has taught at Northwestern University, The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Denver School of the Arts and the University of Denver. She received her Bachelors of Science from Northwestern University where she studied theatre and creative writing for the media. In addition to her work as a movement specialist works as the Manager of Event Operations at the Denver Center for the Performing arts and as a freelance stage.