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.

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 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, she has been engaged in scholarship and practice around intimacy work in entertainment since 2014 and has led workshops on consent culture at The New School, Fordham College at Lincoln Center, Pace University, and Brooklyn College. She recently presented on generative structures for professional development of emerging artists at Amherst College and has led undergraduate degree programs since 2014, taking great pride in mentoring a rising generation of multidisciplinary artists.