Intimacy Coordination
Creating the conditions for intimate storytelling to be both safe and creatively precise.
An Intimacy Coordinator, as defined by SAG-AFTRA, choreographs scenes involving nudity, simulated sex, and other intimate or hyper-exposed material, while advocating for performers' boundaries, consent, and wellbeing throughout the process.
The role acts as a liaison between performers and production, supporting clear communication and helping establish shared expectations before, during, and after rehearsal and filming.
Working across preparation, rehearsal, and production, intimacy coordination helps create the conditions for safe, transparent, and creatively ambitious storytelling.
How I Use the Term “Intimacy”
On this website, the term intimacy is used in a broad sense. It refers not only to emotional closeness, but also to touch, desire, vulnerability, bodily autonomy, and the ways people relate to one another.
What does an intimacy coordinator support?
- Kissing
- Intimacy and physical touch
- Nudity
- Simulated sex
- Birth scenes
- Death and dying
- Vulnerability and emotional exposure
- Power imbalances
- Trauma-related material
- Consent and boundary negotiations
Approaching the unknown
Intimate scenes often bring performers into contact with uncertainty, vulnerability, and unfamiliar territory. My work focuses on creating conditions where this can be explored without losing connection to personal boundaries, agency, and self-awareness.
Structure supports freedom
Clear agreements, consent conversations, and choreography provide a framework that allows performers to engage more fully with character, relationship, and story.
Care and creative precision
Care is not separate from artistic excellence. When performers feel supported and informed, intimate storytelling can become both more precise and more expressive.
My Approach
My work as an intimacy coordinator is informed by a long-standing artistic practice in performance, facilitation, and social choreography.
Across rehearsals, workshops, and performance processes, I have become increasingly interested in how people can engage with the unknown that intimacy can reveal while remaining connected to their own boundaries, agency, and sense of self.
Clear agreements, consent conversations, and choreography provide the structure that allows performers to engage more fully with character, relationship and story.
For productions, directors, producers, and performers.
If you are planning a production with intimate content and would like to discuss how intimacy coordination might support your team, please reach out.