Glynis Rigsby is a director, educator, intimacy choreographer, and artist based in New York City. As a director, she has presented at PROTOYPE, The Opera Project, Yale Center for British Art, and HERE, among others. Her work spans new plays, classics, opera, musicals, new music, devised work, literary adaptation, film, and art installation.

Her collaboration with composer Bora Yoon on Sunken Cathedral was acclaimed as “Mesmerizing...unfolding sequence fascinating throughout” (NYTimes) and “consistently hypnotic, alluring” (Wall Street Journal). Her production of Louis Cancelmi’s The Handlers was cited as  “A creepily compelling family saga” and “the best of the evening” (Time Out Magazine) and “Highbrow/Brilliant” on New York Magazine’s Approval Matrix. For later productions,  “Glynis Rigsby directed the work with élan, creating gorgeous stage pictures with breathtaking simplicity and eliciting strong performances from each member of her cast.” (Off-Off Broadway Review) and “Hilarious and heartbreaking... “so f*ing felt it makes you tremble” (SF Weekly).

With Edmund Mooney, she created the installation Tales from the Infra Thin specifically for the exhibition Welcome To Wherever You Are at the Manly Gallery and Museum, Australia in 2025. She is currently developing a performance work with collaborator Eric Stone titled The Wind on Our Skin, and her voice can be heard in Brendan Fernandes’ media work Foe, acquired by the National Gallery of Canada.

As an Associate Professor at The New School’s College of Performing Arts, her scholarship and practice centered around intimacy work in entertainment; a field she has engaged since her appointment of Chair of the Acting for Film degree program at NYFA New York and South Beach in 2014. She has led workshops on consent culture at The New School, Fordham College at Lincoln Center, Pace University, and Brooklyn College and recently presented on generative structures for professional development of emerging artists at Amherst College.