What is an Intimacy Coordinator?

by | Nov 20, 2025 | Uncategorized

Actor’s Advocate Liaison between production and performers Are a conduit and mediator between the actors and production Movement Coach administrative support and tracking for all scenes and moments of intimacy Are accountable to the Showrunner and Executive Producer.
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So you want to be an intimacy director or coordinator! … or do you?

by | Nov 20, 2025 | Intimacy For The Stage, Training

There are many support professions in the industry now, that folks often conflate with “Intimacy”, but aren’t quite that. While an Intimacy Director or Coordinator may have some of these skills, remember that the primary role of the intimacy director or coordinator (or Intimacy Professional, when we’re talking about both specialities) supports artists in their creation of scenes and moments of intimacy,…

Closure for work satisfaction

by | Jan 22, 2020 | Best Practices, Self-Care

I’m always excited to find additional support for the methods we recommend, and I find a lot of them in TEDtalks. This one supports the case for closure, not just for actors, but for everyone. There’s a few suggestions for rituals and small ways we can...

Enhanced Intimacy for Directors and Actors

by | Apr 18, 2019 | Uncategorized

This is specifically intended for folks who are interested in becoming Intimacy Directors. It will cover the foundation principles of Intimacy Choreography and supporting skills and concepts that are crucial for achieving successful scenes of intimacy. This course is...

The Experience of Stage Combat

by | Aug 1, 2018 | Rehearsal Methods

The feeling you get when you watch a fight is different than the feeling of performing it. When we watch a fight as an audience, we tend to remember the image of the end points (completion of the attack and the parry), and the experience of the pathway. As a...

Receiving Your Choreography

by | Jul 25, 2018 | Uncategorized

In this series of posts, we’re looking at the various stages of learning your fight scene. Reminder: this blog is full of helpful hints, but you can’t really learn this art form in isolation. At some point, you need a teacher to help you build strong...