Our Approach
Principal Intimacy Professionals can assist productions of all types, sizes, and budgets with intimacy direction, intimacy coordination, and consultations.
Easily integrated into your existing production, intimacy coordinators and directors can bring best practices, consent-informed protocols, and time-saving solutions to projects featuring intimacy and/or scenes of heightened intensity. We work as a team to ensure though schedules may change you will always have the support you need.
Our team members have individual skill sets and expertise in various areas, including but not limited to:
over 25+ years of collective experience + training in intimacy from leading mentors and organisations from around the world
facilitation of training, both nationally + internationally
sexual health + education
diversity + sensitivity training
intersectional education + perspectives on sex and gender
fight/violence design + direction
youth advocacy
occupational health + safety training
mental health + physical first aid training
health + safety best practices
wellness facilitation
script and risk assessment breakdowns
additional applied experience and training in stage combat, wardrobe, direction, casting, dance, singing, and acting coaching techniques
With this multidisciplinary approach, our team offers additional services such as script expertise and breakdowns for production prep, COVID-19 risk assessments and risk reduction breakdowns, and wellness facilitation.
Our team was instrumental in the development of provincial and national standards, protocols and best bractices with organisations including CAEA, UBCP, and ACTRA and have offered webinars through Actsafe Association. Some of our members are also a part of the National Society of Intimacy Professionals, Canada’s non-profit serving intimacy professionals.
Our Team
Amanda Liz Cutting (she | her)
Certified Intimacy Coordinator, Certified Intimacy Director, PIP Team Lead, BECTU Health & Safety
Victoria, Nanaimo, Vancouver, Calgary
Amanda has worked as an actors’ advocate and Intimacy Choreographer/ Coordinator for the last nine years. She is a certified Intimacy Coordinator and Intimacy Director. She is on the board of directors and works on various committees for the National Society of Intimacy Professionals (NSIP) and leads Principal Intimacy Professionals (PIP), a team serving Vancouver’s Hollywood North and other Canadian/international film/television/theatre centres.
Selected Credits: Mastram, Upload, Shogun, Surface
Megan Gilron (she | they)
Certified Intimacy Coordinator, Certified Intimacy Director, Comprehensive Sexual Health & Sexuality Educator
Belfast, Northern Ireland | Dublin, Ireland
Megan is a certified Intimacy Coordinator and Director for film, television and theatre with Principal Intimacy Professionals (UBCP/ACTRA, BECTU IC Branch and SAG-AFTRA Registry) and a costumer with IATSE 891, currently on a 2-year visa in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. She is also a certified comprehensive sexual health and sexuality educator with Options for Sexual Health. She offers bespoke workshops on Consent, Boundaries, Assertiveness Skills, Sex and Sexuality, and Kink/BDSM for Performance.
Selected Credits: Fakes, Surface, Golden Delicious
Phay Moores (she | they)
Certified Intimacy Director, Intimacy Coordinator, Script Expert, Instructor & Public Speaker
Vancouver, Fraser Valley
Phay (she/they) is a certified Intimacy Director and Coordinator with 2025 marking their ninth year training/working in the field. Additionally, she teaches at Chilliwack School of Performing Arts (Devised Theatre), often assists her spouse with SPFX projects, and takes care of their kiddo. Phay is a proud UFV Alumni, graduating with a double major in Theatre and English in 2017.
Selected Credits: Oscar-qualifying short film Auganic, Golden Delicious, Bunny, FREYA, & A Million Little Things S5.
Meagan Schroder (she | her)
Intimacy Coordinator, Intimacy Director, Educator,
Actor
Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa
Meagan is a queer Intimacy Coordinator, Intimacy Director, Educator and actor based in Tio'tia: ke (Montreal, QC). Having worked as an actor in film, TV, voice and theatre for 10+ years, she understands the range of personal creative processes actors use to approach their craft and how to work within those processes and work mindfully with impulses. Meagan believes that story-telling should be sensorial, and enjoys creating from a place of curiosity, play and collaboration.
Selected Credits: Prom Pact, Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation
Anastasia St. Amand (she | her)
Certified Intimacy Coordinator, Certified Intimacy Director, Fight Designer
Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver
Anastasia is a Queer, certified intimacy director & coordinator, an award-nominated actor, and award-winning fight designer, who hails from Mohkinstsis (Calgary) on Treaty 7 Territory. She is on the board for the National Society of Intimacy Professionals (NSIP), a founding member of Principal Intimacy Professionals (PIPs), and an instructor for PIP’s SAG-AFTRA accredited intimacy professional training program.
Select Credits: Beaches, Selma Burke, Meteor Shower (Theatre Calgary), Guilty Party (Paramount+), Peacemaker (HBO), Upload S2 (Amazon).
Megan Wong (she | they)
Intimacy Coordinator, Intimacy Director
Victoria, Vancouver
Megan Wong is a queer, neurodiverse, Chinese-Canadian Intimacy Professional working primarily in the Pacific Northwest. She has trained and consulted in intimacy internationally and is a committee member of the National Society of Intimacy Professionals. She believes in collaborative, process-based art and finds beauty and excitement in the unique circumstance of all her performers.
Selected Credits: Reginald the Vampire, Vietgone (Clever Bird)
Ashley Donahue (she | her)
Intimacy Coordinator, Intimacy Director, Indigenous Wellness Coordinator
Vancouver, Toronto, Los Angeles
Ashley combines her background in the performing arts and social work into her Intimacy practice. She is Canada’s first Indigenous Wellness Coordinator; her expertise in cultural material allows her to uplift protocols for healthy and supportive creative environments for cast and crew. Proudly representing the Mohawk Nation, Ashley is passionate about uplifting Indigenous performers and storytellers. Ashley is eligible to work in Canada & the US.
Selected Credits: Girls Like Girls, The Wedding Banquet