Jem Garrard

Jem Garrard
Born1985 or 1986 (age 40–41)
London, U.K.
OccupationsDirector, Producer, Writer
Years active2010–present
Websitejemgarrard.com

Jem Garrard (1985 or 1986) is the creator and showrunner on the space opera series Vagrant Queen released in 2020, and the award winning mockumentary webseries Android Employed, which ran from 2017 to 2018. They directed the fourth series of comedy-drama You Me Her in 2019, and episodes of Wynonna Earp and Motherland: Fort Salem. Garrard has been nominated for a daytime Emmy award for Mech-X4 and won a Leo Award in 2018.[non-primary source needed]

Filmography

YearTitlePositionNotesRef
2013PlaygroundDirector, cinematographerSeason 1, 4 eps.
2015Guns to MicsDocumentary
2016The SwitchDirector, Story EditorSeason 1
Murderer UpstairsDirectorTV movie
2017Christmas at Holly Lodge
2017-2018Android EmployedCreator, DirectorSeason 1 + 2, 8 eps.
Mech-X4DirectorSeason 2, 4 eps.
2018Cooking with LoveTV movie
Killer High
2019You Me HerSeason 4
2020Vagrant QueenExecutive Producer, Director, Created for Television by, Showrunner
2021Wynonna EarpDirectorSeason 4, Episode #46: "Crazy"
Day of the DeadEpisodes 8-10: "To Anyone Who Can Hear My Voice"/
"Death Comes to Paymart"
2022CharmedEpisode 66: "Cats And Camels and Elephants, Oh My"
2023Nancy DrewEpisode 52: "The Danger of the Hopeful Sigil"
2024 Sight Unseen Director "Sunny", "Mia"
Slay Director, writer
Invasive Director, writer
2025 R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead Director, writer
Invasive 2 Director, writer
2026 Buzzkill Director Written by Suzanne Keilly
R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead 2 Director, writer

Awards and nominations

YearAwarding Body/EventAwardWorkResultRef
2015LA Film FestivalLAIFF July Award for Best Comedy/DramedyThe Wolf Who Came to DinnerNominated
2016Juggernaut: A Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film FestivalHecate Female Filmmaker AwardNominated
Canada Shorts Film FestivalDisappearedFinalist
East Van ShowcaseJury Prize for Best Short FilmHaunted SaloonWon
2018Banff World Media FestivalBanff Rockie Award for Best Digital Fiction SeriesAndroid EmployedNominated
Leo AwardsBest Music, Comedy, or Variety Program or SeriesNominated
Best Direction in a Music, Comedy, or Variety Program or SeriesNominated
Best Screenwriting in a Music, Comedy, or Variety Program or SeriesAndroid Employed, episode "The Second Unit Team"Won
Best Direction in a Youth or Children's Program or SeriesMech-X4, episode "X4 Versus The Dark Night"Nominated
201946th Daytime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Directing for a Children's, Preschool Children's or Family Viewing ProgramMech-X4Nominated
Directors Guild of CanadaOutstanding Directorial AchievementKiller HighNominated

References

  1. ↑ Lederman, Marsha (April 18, 2012). "How to make a 'great little video' for a Beatle". The Globe and Mail. p. R3. Retrieved October 18, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. 'Kind of bearing in mind Ringo's sense of humour, I thought that I would just kind of go for something wacky and it will be a risk, but he'll either love it or hate it,' says Garrard, who is from London but moved to Vancouver three years ago after falling in love with the city during a family vacation. A devoted Beatles fan, Garrard, 26, learned about the video contest from the band's Facebook page in early March just five days before the deadline.
  2. ↑ "JEM GARRARD". JEM GARRARD. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
  3. ↑ "Director Jem Garrard talks Monsters, Childhood, and 'The Wolf Who Came to Dinner'". vancouversun.
  4. ↑ "Shayla Raine | STORYHIVE".
  5. ↑ "Director Jem Garrard talks Monsters, Childhood, and 'The Wolf Who Came to Dinner'". vancouversun.
  6. ↑ "'Secrets Of My Stepdaughter': Lifetime True Story Movie Inspired By Brittany Norwood Lululemon Yoga Murder". Archived from the original on 2017-05-20.
  7. ↑ "The robots are coming: 'Android Employed' imagines a near future where robots join the workforce". 23 August 2017.
  8. ↑ "Syfy's 'Vagrant Queen': Adriyan Rae to Star in Live-Action Space Tale". 17 May 2019.
  9. ↑ "[Exclusive] Syfy Brings a Giant Warthog to a High School Reunion in Bloody, Super Fun 'Killer High' Trailer". 18 September 2018.
  10. ↑ "'You Me Her' to End with Season 5 on Audience Network". 10 May 2019.
  11. ↑ "SyFy Orders "Vagrant Queen," A Space Opera with All-Women Writers and Directors".
  12. ↑ "'I was kind of lost … until I found drag': RuPaul's Drag Race star Trinity The Tuck's confession". The Advertiser. October 26, 2025. p. 3. ProQuest 3264715700. Trinity has now travelled the globe performing live shows for adoring audiences. Last year, she took on her first major acting role in the horror movie Slay, which, she says with a laugh, is a little bit like the hit 1994 Australian film The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert – but with vampires. The spoof horror flick sees four drag queens stuck in a biker bar where they team up with the redneck patrons to fight off vampires. 'When I got this opportunity to film Slay with Tubi, I was so grateful because the writer and director [Jem Garrard] is a queer person; they're non-binary, so it was written authentically from the perspective of someone in our community," she explains.
  13. ↑ Piepenburg, Erik (May 29, 2024). "The Arts/Cultural Desk: Tales of Gay Ghosts And Savage Seniors". The New York Times. p. C3. ProQuest 3060954023. Garrard follows up their previous Tubi original, the unfunny vampires-vs.-drag queen horror comedy 'Slay,' with a far more thrilling battle of wits, here between the have-a-lots and the have-nots. What could have been a heavy-handed 96-minute metaphor is instead a tight "Parasite"-aspiring thriller that's buoyed by terrific performances from Chouler (charming and sinister) and Ngema (fearless and calculating). For fans of home invasion films, this one comes with a nifty twist: The intruders are the good guys.
  14. ↑ "'I definitely became a better screamer on this movie'". The Advertiser. September 20, 2026. p. 3. ProQuest 3387321851. Slasher movie lore dictates that hard-partying characters always meet a grisly end at the point of a very sharp knife. [...] The new Tubi movie Buzzkill burns that playbook. [...] To play the character, Agudong had to throw any sense of self-consciousness out the window and embrace the blood-soaked chaos. 'I remember [director] Jem Garrard coming up after the first take and seeing me play Nora for the first time, and they said, 'You're taking yourself too seriously. I want Siena to have fun,' the 22-year-old recalls. 'And in the next take, it felt kind of magical because I felt like I was given permission to be a kid all over again – to forget all of the rules that I was taught, and just play.'
  15. ↑ Gajewski, Ryan (August 24, 2026). "'Buzzkill’: Horror-Comedy Starring Siena Agudong, Brec Bassinger Sets Fall Release". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 18, 2026. "Garrard (R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead) helmed the movie from a script by Suzanne Keilly (Slumber Party Massacre). Hailing from Blue Ice Pictures, the film counts Ryan Plachcinski, Haley Wiseman, Adam Friedlander and Tebogo Maila as producers. Agudong, Garrard, Keilly and Lance Samuels executive produce. [...] Describing Buzzkill as 'unapologetically fun and ridiculous,' Garrard adds, 'I loved Suzanne’s script and was excited by her spin on the slasher genre. Nora isn’t your traditional final girl. She screws up constantly and is spectacularly ill-equipped for what’s happening around her, but we never stop rooting for her.'"
  16. ↑ "'R. L. Stine's Pumpkinhead 2' Review: The Gateway Horror Sequel Raises The Stakes". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved October 11, 2026.
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  22. ↑ "46th Daytime Emmy Awards Nominees with Credits" (PDF). cdn.emmyonline.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 May 2019.
  23. ↑ "Nominees announced for 18th Annual DGC Awards".