While similar, there is a difference between intimacy coordinators and intimacy directors. Intimacy directors are intimacy professionals who work on theatre, dance, and opera projects. Intimacy directors serve the projects they’re hired on in whatever way the production needs them as an actors’ advocate, conduit between production and performers, and movement specialists.

Instances when an Intimacy Director would be needed: 

• Nudity or partial nudity 

• Simulated consensual sex between two or more people 

• Simulated non-consensual sex between two or more people (i.e. rape scenes) 

• Simulated consensual and non-consensual sexual acts (i.e. oral sex, manual stimulation, intimate touching) 

• Simulated sexual violence 

• Simulated self-stimulation (i.e. masturbation) 

• Kissing 

• Any intimacy between youths or between youths and adults 

• Scenes of, or that demand, a heightened state of emotion from performers (i.e. trauma, hysteria) that may put the performer at risk

PIPs’ Intimacy Directors

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