INTIMACY: CHOREOGRAPHY | DIRECTION | COORDINATION | CONSULTING
My experience covers a range of expertise in intimacy practice including consulting, coordination, and choreography for film, stage, musical theatre, and opera. Initially trained in stage direction at the Yale School of Drama, I hold an Advanced Plus Diploma from Theatrical Intimacy Education and have worked across leading organizations in the industry including Intimacy Directors International, Intimacy Directors and Choreographers, and Intimacy Coordinators of Color with key founders of the Intimacy movement including Tonia Sina, Ann James, Laura Rickard, Chelsea Pace, and others.
Integral to my work on intimacy is scholarship integrating social and cultural transformation into professional performance practice. At the heart of it all is a requirement that we embrace the experience, value, well-being, and joyful creation of each human being who joins with us to bring collaborative work into being.
A list of past projects and presentations appear below.
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CREATIVE WORK
Seven Ravens, written and directed by Marisol Rosa-Shapiro, in association with New Victory Theater LabWorks, College of Performing Arts, The New School, 2025
As You Like It by William Shakespeare, College of Performing Arts, The New School, 2025
These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich, directed by Austen Parent, College of Performing Arts, The New School, 2025
Somewhere, adapted from West Side Story by Nicky Quirindongo, College of Performing Arts, The New School, 2025
Consultant: Isn’t This It (film), wirtten and directed by Rebecca Booth, 2025
There is A Big Thing (film), written and directed by Robyn Haddad, 2025
Acting Showcase, BFA, Dramatic Arts, College of Performing Arts, The New School, 2025
Consultant: The Juniors by Noah Diaz, directed by Melissa Crespo, College of Performing Arts, The New School, 2025
Alcina (opera), George Frederic Handel, Mannes Opera & Mannes Orchestra, conducted by Geofrey Andrew McDonald, directed by Sam Helfrich, 2024
Spring Awakening: The Musical, by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, directed by Iona McKidd and Isa Saade, College of Performing Arts, The New School, 2024
Heathers: The Musical by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe, directed by Clay Baker Lerner, The New School, 2023
Passage, by Christopher Chen with co-Director Francisco Rodriguez Rivera, College of Performing Arts, The New School, Bank Street Theater, 2023
The First Sign (film), written and directed by Orli Hersch, 2023
To All The Ways To Say Goodbye by Zandra Paxton, directed by Zinc Tong, Bank Street Theater, 2023
Consultant: While We Wait by Charly Evon Simpson, directed by Jordana De La Cruz, Bank Street Theater, 2023
Guerrilla by Ryan Kearns, directed by Yarrow Hachey, The Tank, New York Theater Festival, 2023
Roleplay, directed by Hanah Pedersen, The Chain Theatre, 2023
PINK! by Stacy Davidowitz, directed by Emma Richmond, 2022
The Moors by Jen Silverman, directed by Yarrow Hachey, 2022
Carnal by Nikhil Mahapatra, directed by Nicky Maggio, Bank Street Theater, 2018
East of Berlin by Hannah Moscovitch directed by Katherine Teed Arthur, 2017
WORKSHOPS/PANEL/PRESENTATIONS
Agency In A Time of Strife, The Artists Incubator, Rough Draft Festival, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, La Guardia Community College, Queens, NY, 2026
Intimacy Workshops for Staff, Faculty, and Students, College of Performing Arts, The New School, 2018- 2025
Consent Culture Workshop, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, La Guardia Community College, Queens, NY, 2025
Theatrical Intimacy in Education, Brooklyn College, School of Theater, Faculty Workshop, 2022
Changing the Rules of the Game: Introducing Consent Culture, Pace University, Faculty Workshop, 2022
Consent Culture in Performance Practice: Re-building Theatre through Critical Assessment: Resonance, Reflection, and Refraction, Women & Theatre Program Panel, Association of Theatre in Higher Education, 2021
Intimacy in Performance: Changing Paradigms and New Tools for 2020, Fordham University, 2020
Intimacy Module, EDI Faculty Training Workshops, co-facilitator w/Lauren Whitehead Reed Swier, New School College of Performing Arts, 2020
A New Kind of Sex Ed: Shifting the Paradigm for Sex in the Rehearsal Room, Directors Program Panel, Association of Theatre in Higher Education, 2018
RELEVANT TRAINING
Advanced Plus Diploma, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2026
Intimacy Choreography for Live Performance, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2026
Neurodivergence and Intimacy, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2026
Youth Mental Health First Aid Certificate, 2026
Actors and Intimacy, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2025
Stage Management and Intimacy, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2025
Voice and Intimacy, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2025
Cooking with Choreography, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2025
Crafting the Intimate Moment in Film, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2025
Working with Minors, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2025
Musical Theatre & Intimacy, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2025
Stage Fighting & Intimacy, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2025
Paperwork & Intimacy, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2025
Equitable Community Engagement: Syllabus Institute, The New School, 2025
Creating Solidarity Workshop, The Human Solidarity Project, Soul Focused, 2025
Adult Mental Health First Aid Certificate, 2025
Creating a Culture of Consent: Community Agreements, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2024
Staging Intimacy Beyond the Binary, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2024
Workshop Weekend (HOST), Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2024
Intimacy Coordination: Film and TV, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2024
De-Escalation Training with DC Peace Team, October 2024
Modesty Garments and More!, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2024
Kissing Questions, Theatrical Intimacy Education, Laura Rickard, 2024
Staging Sex: Non-Consensual Intimacy, Theatrical Intimacy Education, July 2023
Weekend Workshop, Theatrical Intimacy Education, Laura Rickard and Chelsea Pace, (HOST) College of Performing Arts, The New School, 2022
Assessing Culturally Competent Spaces, Intimacy Directors and Choreographers, 2022
Accessible Intimacies: Disability Justice in Intimate Performance, Intimacy Coordinators of Color, 2022
Working with Trans and Non-Binary Artists, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2022
Consent in the Acting Classroom, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2022
Trauma-Informed Practices, Chelsea Pace, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2022
Everyday Justice: Antiracism as Daily Practice, artEquity, 2022
Assessing Culturally Competent Spaces, Intimacy Directors and Choreographers, 2022
Theatrical Studio Techniques, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2021
Race and Choreography, Kaja Dunn, Theatrical Intimacy Education:, 2021
Foundations in Race, Intimacy and Consent, Theatrical Intimacy Education, 2021
Undoing Racism/Community Organizer Workshop, People’s Institute For Survival and Beyond, 2021
Bystander Intervention to Stop Police Sponsored Violence and Anti-Black Racist Harassment Training, Hollaback, 2021
Bystander Intervention 2.0: Conflict De-escalation Training, Hollaback, 2021
Bystander Intervention Training, Hollaback, 2021
3-Day Intimacy Workshop with Adam Noble and Ashley White, Houston Grand Opera, Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, 2020
Empathetic Facilitation, Piper Anderson, Create Forward, Columbia School of Social Work, 2019
Intimacy Workshop with Chelsea Pace and Laura Rikard, Theatre Intimacy Education, 2019
Advanced Intimacy Workshop, Clare Warden, Intimacy Directors International, The Drama League, 2019
Intimacy Workshop, Tonia Sina, The Drama League, Intimacy Directors International, 2019
Intimacy Workshop, Clare Warden, Drama League, Intimacy Directors International, 2019
Intimacy Workshop, Siobhan Richardson, Intimacy Directors International, Ottawa, 2018
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Training, New School for Drama, 2016
Diversity: Creating Inclusivity in the Acting Classroom by Broadening the Canon, Ann Joseph-Douglas, Ericka Ratcliff, Congo Square Theater Company, ATHE, 2016