SAM Luckey is a multi-directional circus artist.  Since first attending a circus themed summer camp at age 7, the world of circus has been a central nexus in her life.  In her youth and teen years, she was part of Splash Circus Youth Performance Company and studied aerial dance with its inventor, Terry Sendgraff, She spent every summer at Camp Winnarainbow, a circus and performing arts overnight camp.  

In 2002, at age 18, SAM moved to London, England, to study at The National Centre for Circus Arts, specializing in swinging trapeze. She received a BA in Theater Practice: Circus in 2004.  During her time in London she was part of The Optomists, a flying trapeze troop on the petit volant (mini fly rig). After returning to the Bay Area and furthering her training on the swinging trapeze at the Circus Center in San Francisco with master coach Elena Panova, SAM moved north to Mendocino County to be Flynn Creek Circus’s resident artist in 2006.  

From there she moved to Sarasota, Florida, to join the Flying Caceres, creating a new flying act with them of unusual proportions: with four platforms and four trapezes, they flew directly above, below, and across each other with exciting bar-to-bar tricks choreography. They debuted the act at the 4th International Circus Festival in Grenoble, France, in the fall of 2006, then performed through the winter with El Gran Circo Mundial in Valencia, Spain.  SAM took a break from the Flying Caceres to live in Amsterdam, Holland, for the spring of 2007, teaching and performing aerials and acrobatics there, and rejoined the troop in the summer to rehearse and further develop the flying act. They join the Ringling Brother’s and Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth 138th Edition (Blue Unit) at the end of that year, to tour the USA. She left the tour early to heal an injury, and since 2009 she has been training, teaching, and performing in her native California.