INTIMACY & MOVEMENT DIRECTION

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*Indicates a world premier production and/or workshop production of a new play   

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Spookytown, Written & Produced by Julia Everett 

Intimacy Director, October 2025

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*Poser Corpse, produced & written by Bug Johnson 

Intimacy Director & Creature Work Coordinator, September 2025 

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Much Ado About Nothing, Produced by Tier 5 Theatre Company 

Intimacy Director, August 2025

 

*Faster in the Attic  By: Grace Tomblin Marca 

(Featured in the Edinburgh Fringe festival) 

Intimacy Director August 2025

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*Romeo & Juliet & A Man Called Paris, Produced by: Kulturkanon 

Intimacy Director, June/July 2025 

 

*Velvet Rage, Producer: Moshi Hendersen, Basement Theatrics  

Remounted Production from 2024 

Intimacy Director, JUNE 2025

 

Much Ado About Nothing, Produced by: Kulturkanon 

Intimacy Director, May 2025

 

*Echo, Written & Directed by: Amber Weissert

Intimacy & Fight Director, May 2025

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*Outcall, Written & Directed by Paeton Chavis 

Intimacy Director/Fight Choreographer February 2025

 

*Kissing a Stranger , Producer & Director Dane Forgone 

Intimacy Director, January 2025

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*UNITED IN LOVE, UNTIL DEATH (January 2025)

Written and Director By: Amanda Thomas 

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*Verona Falls

Written By: Nadel Henville 

Directed by: Bev Kippenhan 

Intimacy & Fight Director OCTOBER 2024

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TITLE OF SHOW

Directed By: Alex Kopnik 

Produced by: Kopcorp 

Intimacy Director, SEPTEMBER 2024 

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*FISH MEAT 

Written By: Esme Maria Ng. 

Directed by: Michelle Chan

Intimacy Director & Fight Director, AUGUST 2024 

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*Velvet Rage

Writer, Producer & Dirctor: Moshe Hendersen with Between Us Productions 

Intimacy Director, JUNE 2024 

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*Texas Gothic

Written by Randy McHaney 

Director: Paul Dedrick

Producer: Moshi Henderson 

Intimacy Director, APRIL 2024 

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*Hard Luck Harry

Producer & Director:  Dane Forgione 

Intimacy Director & Fantasy Magic Consultant, FEBRUARY  2024  

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*Los  Nutcrackers,

Producer: BAAD Bronx Academy of Art & Dance 

Director: Chris Rivera & Byrna Raanan 

Intimacy Director, DECEMBER 2023   

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*Best Punk Band in Conway, Missouri

Producer: UP Theatre Company 

Director: Rachel Murray 

Intimacy Director,  MAY 2023 

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*Tam Lin

Written by Laurel Andersen

Producer: Barefoot Shakespeare Company with  Emily Gallagher & Laurel Andersen  

 Intimacy & Movement Director and Magic Choreographer OCTOBER 2022 

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Love's Labour's Lost

Producer: Arachne Theatre Company

Director: Xenia Danylyszyn  

Intimacy Director, JUNE 2023

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Twelfth Night

Producer: Match:Lit, Kristin Sgarro

Director: Zeynap Malbrough 

 Intimacy & Movement Director  FEBRUARY 2022

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Midsummer Night’s Dream (Staged Reading)

Producer: Match: Lit, Kristin Sgarro   

Intimacy Director & Magic Choreographer  NOVEMBER 2021

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King Lear (Staged Reading)

 Producer: Match:Lit, Kristin Sgarro   

Intimacy Director  OCTOBER 2021

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Cymbeline (Staged Reading), Producer: Match:Lit, Kristin Sgarro   

 Intimacy Director   JUNE 2022 

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The Tempest

Producer: Arachne Theatre Company

Director:  Xenia Danylyszyn

Intimacy Consultant  June 2022 

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*Under Woodside by Juliann Lavallee

Producer: Stage Jewels, Juliann Lavallee  

Intimacy Director  AUGUST 2021

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*Radio Hour by Laurel Andersen

Producer: Laurel Andersen

Director and Intimacy Director, FEBRUARY 2021

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*Modern Day Martyrdom by Chris Rivera

Producer: Chris Rivera

Intimacy & Movement  Director 2019

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*Our Own Odyssey  by Chris Rivera,

Producer: Chris Rivera 

Intimacy & Movement Director 2018

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INTIMACY COORDINATION 

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SHE (Short Film), Producer: Amy Finkbeiner

Intimacy Coordinator, FILMING in NOVEMBER 2025 

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Cracker Suite (Queer Holiday Short Film), Producer: Duncan Pflaster 

Intimacy Coordinator, FILMING IN OCTOBER 2025 

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Last Summer (Full Length Film), Producer: Star Cross Productions  

Intimacy Coordinator, July-September 2025

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Project Noir, Producer: Asif Alli 

Intimacy Coordinator, June 2025

 

Madeleine Olnek’s Untitled Women’s Heater (Full Length Film)

Producer: Checklist Manifesto, LLC  

 

Intimacy Coordinator April 2025

BEASTS (Short Film), Producer: Alex Taylor  

Intimacy Coordinator  November  2023

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Precious (Short Film), Producer: Nathan Krachman

Intimacy Coordinator, Premiered  December 2023 

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Orpheus was an A**HOLE (Webseries), Producer: Turn to Flesh Productions 

Intimacy Coordinator  AUGUST 2021    

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Dead Enders (Webseries), Producer: Anna Stacy & Nicole Martinez   

Intimacy Coordinator NOVEMBER 2021  

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Training 

Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC) 

• Currently in Level 4: Final stages of mentorship with Mitchell McCoy 

• Successfully Completed Levels 1-3 Advanced Training Program for IDC Certification, led by Claire Warden & Cha Ramos. 

• Creating Spaces: Community Guidelines and Tools for Talking January 2023

• Level I and Level II Foundations in Intimacy 2021-2022  

• Understanding Body Shame & Body Healing 2022

• Laban for Intimacy Work: A Choreographer’s Toolbox 2022

• BDSM & Kink Webinar 2022

• Culturally Competent Productions Dec 2022

• Supporting Transgender and Non-binary Artists 2021

• Intro to Trauma Informed Practices for Artists 2021

• Facilitating Group Closure 2021

• Pronouns 101 2021

• Intimacy Direction and Covid 19 2021

• Intimacy for Performance:  Ashley H. White 2020

Mental Health and Medical First Aid Certifications 

• “Rewire & Rise Neurosomatics Intelligence” Workshop January 2025

• “Breathing for Better Brain Health” Workshop March 2025

• Mental Health First Aid Certification Course Renewal (TIE) April 2025

• Certified in CPR/First Aid/AED training by the American Red Cross January 2023

Trauma Stewardship

• “Compassion Fatigue in the Helping Professions” Course  March 2025 

• “V-Step: Vicarious Trauma, Resiliency & Wellness” Course  April 2025 

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: 

• “Fundamentals of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging” Coursera Class, March 2025

• “Understanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”- Paradigm March 2025

• “Building a Culture for Everyone”- Paradigm  March 2025

• “Increasing Disability, Equity, Inclusion, and belonging” - Intimacy Professional Association May 2025

 

Gender Inclusion & Sexual Identity Courses: 

• Reading Material: Transgender History

• Intro to Gender & Sexuality Course- Intimacy Professional Association May 2025 

Anti-Harassment/Anti-Sexual Harassment

• “Understanding & Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace” Coursera, February 2025

• “Protect Your Brain from Bullying, Gaslighting, & Institutional Complicity” Class Virtual Health Brain Center, March 2025

Anti- Racism & Allyship 

• Reading Material: “How to be an Anti-Racist”

• Building Racial Equity Course with Race Forward, Completed May 2025

• Allyship & Accountability Class- Paradigm May 2025

• Allyship at All Levels Class- Paradigm April 2025

• Allyship to Transgender and Non-Binary People- Chris Mosier, TransAthlete June 2025 

Conflict Resolution & Mediation 

Currently seeking a specialty certification through Coursera  with the University of California, Irvine on Conflict Management. 

1. Types of Conflict (Completed March 2025)  

2. Conflict Resolution Skills (In Progress) 

Bystanding Intervention

• Bystander Intervention, Right to Be 2023

• Bystander Intervention to Support the LGTBQIA+ Community, Right to be March 2025

• How to Respond: Practical Tools in the Face of Harassment, Right to be March of 2025

• Bystander Intervention to Support  Trans Equality, Right to Be March 2025 

BDSM Specialty Education with The Taillor Group:  

• Primal Play & BDSM safety and Ethics 2022

Stage Combat Training 

• Saber: Weapons Specialty Training Levels 1 & 2, (12 wks): NYCSS 2022 

• Unarmed Stage Combat Workshop (10 weeks): Neutral Chaos, (SAFD Certified Actor Combatant 2022)  

• Knife: Specialty Weapons Training (10 Weeks): Neutral Chaos, 2022 

• Single Sword: Specialty Weapons Training (10 Weeks): Neutral Chaos 2023 (SAFD Certified Actor Combatant 2023) 

• Rapier & Dagger (10 Weeks): Neutral Chaos 2023 (SAFD Certified Actor Combatant 2023) 

• Small Sword (10 Weeks): Neutral Chaos, February-April 2025 (SAFD Certified 2025) 

Movement

• The Witches Dance: Ritual Movement Workshops 2025

• Physical Theatre Training with Blake Habermann

• Improbable Stage Company Monthly Movement Workshops, Stacy Donnavan 

• Actors Movement Studio Summer Intensive: Williamson, Laban, Michael Checkov technique, Maskwork, Viewpoints

• Devised Movement Work (advanced and independent study through various productions, workshops, and explorations over the last 10 years) 

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