Jeff Thrasher is an Emmy-nominated director and award-winning producer with more than 15 years of documentary film, television and marketing experience. Thrasher has earned the reputation of a passionate, adventurous and highly-skilled storyteller.

Most recently, Thrasher received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Direction in a multi-camera program for his work on Furze World Wonders for YouTube Red Originals.

Thrasher’s space documentary Mission Asteroid, produced and directed for CBC’s Doc Zone, was also nominated for a Canadian Screen Award as Best Science or Nature Documentary and has been broadcast around the world.

As Field Director and Story Producer on the National Geographic documentary series Storm Worlds/Storm Planets, Thrasher tested a Martian spacesuit against a Martian dust storm for the first time in history. This experiment led to co-authoring the NASA research paper, Preliminary Testing of a Pressurized Space Suit and Candidate Fabrics Under Simulated Mars Dust Storm and Dust Devil Conditions, published in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal.

As series director for Seasons 2 and 3 of the Discovery Channel hit series Vegas Rat Rods, Thrasher helped grow the audience from approximately 600,000 to almost 2 million per episode. Thrasher also directed on the high-concept multiple award-winning series The National Parks

Project for Discovery Channel and is a Senior Producer for the multiple award-winning hit series The Amazing Race Canada.

When leading productions and teams, Thrasher fully immerses himself in the action to ensure that the best stories emerge on camera. As a result, Thrasher has held dust collected by Charles Darwin on the Beagle, simulated a spacewalk with Buzz Aldrin under the Caribbean Sea, and swam face-to-face with Fijian bull sharks. A natural leader and a true team player, Thrasher has guided crews in the desolate Arctic, through the harshest deserts on Earth and across the depths of the South Pacific seas – all the while, having a great time telling amazing stories with fantastic people.

Other recent achievements include:

• Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Direction in a multi-camera program for Furze World Wonders for YouTube Red Originals. The series has garnered over 20 million views.

• Director of Season 2 and 3 of the Discovery Channel international hit series Vegas Rat Rods

• Senior Producer of the multiple award-winning hit series, The Amazing Race Canada for Seasons 5 and 6, Challenge Producer for Season 2.

• Producer – Post Production for Canada’s Smartest Person, Seasons 1 – 4

• Field Director and Story Producer on the high-concept National Geographic documentary series Storm Worlds/Storm Planets (Thrasher tested a Martian spacesuit against a Martian dust storm for the first time in history and co-authored the NASA research paper, Preliminary Testing of a Pressurized Space Suit and Candidate Fabrics Under Simulated Mars Dust Storm and Dust Devil Conditions, published in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal)