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.
From preparation through rehearsal and filming, intimacy coordination creates the conditions for performers and filmmakers to approach intimate material with clarity, consent, and creative precision
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.
What does an intimacy coordinator support?
- Kissing
- Intimacy and physical touch
- Nudity
- Simulated sex
- Birth scenes
- Death, dying and care practices
- Vulnerability and emotional exposure
- Power imbalances
- Trauma-related material
- Consent and boundary
For productions, directors, producers and performers.
If you are planning a production with intimate or emotionally challenging content and would like to discuss how intimacy coordination might support your team, please reach out.