Seth Tepfer is a contra dance caller and writer from Decatur, Georgia. He has written around 200 dances, which he has released under a Creative Commons license.^[1][2]

Tepfer graduated from Emory University in 1990 with a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science. He began managing the school’s computer labs after graduation and in 1995 he started working as director of administrative technologies at Emory's Oxford College.^[3][4][5] In 2016, Tepfer earned an MBA in Management of Technology from Georgia Tech.^[6]

In 1987, Tepfer began Scottish country dancing.^[7][8] He learned to call at the John C. Campbell Folk School and started calling contra dances in 1997.^[5][7][8] Tepfer was the caller for a barn dance for former president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn in 2004.^[9] In 2012, the Elizabethton Star called him one of the "nation's top callers."^[10] In the 2014 film The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, Tepfer choreographed folk dancing for the wedding scene and trained the actors for the sequence.^[11] Internationally, Tepfer has called dances in Canada, France, Germany, Denmark, Costa Rica, Greece, and England.^[7][11] Tepfer also teaches dance calling and calls traditional square and English country dances.^[7] He has organized dance weekends around the world, including Butterfly Whirl, Atlanta Dance Weekend, Bonaire Dance and Dive, and Florida Rhapsody.^[7] He is a regular caller at U.S. dance weeks and weekends such as Chattaboogie, Bug Stomp, Spring Dance Romance, Lady of the Lake, Cumberland Dance Week, and Winter Dance Week.^[12] In 2026, he collaborated with the Country Dance and Song Society to host the monthly Contra Callers' Corner series.^[7]

Tepfer has been married to Pam Eidson since 2002. They met at a contra dance and he proposed at a contra dance.^[13] They have two sons.^[5][14]