Heather Ondersma (sHe/her)

Specialties include collaborating on coming-of-age stories, working with young performers, inclusion/disability justice, historical pieces, and new work

Sann Francisco, Los Angeles, Oklahoma City/Tulsa, Vancouver, Winnipeg, NYC
@heatherondersma on Instagram

Recent film credits: Chimera (directed by Steve Pink, with Pauline Chalamet), Companion (New Line Cinema with Jack Quaid, Sophie Thatcher, Rupert Friend), Splash City (directed by Alex Ferrufino, produced by Berner/4 Ways Entertainment) and El Campo (directed by Octavio Pisano, produced by Guillermo Escalona). Theatre: Rent (Dix Hills Performing Arts Center, directed by Adam Pascal, original Broadway cast “Roger”), and San Francisco Bay Area productions of Fun Home, Cinderella, Rent, The Prom, Little Women, In the Heights and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Her theatre background includes directing and producing over fifty plays (NYC, Prague, Santa Barbara, LA, Vancouver and the virtual realm). Heather has completed 400+ hours of intimacy training, primarily with TIE and Principal Intimacy Professionals. MA Dramatic Art--University of California, Santa Barbara. Member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab, National Society of Intimacy Professionals board member, organizing team member for the International Conference of Intimacy Coordinators--Berlin 2024 and mom of three teenagers. @heatherondersma