Intimacy Direction



Recent Projects
Fall 2022-Spring 2023
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Sweeney Todd at The Fifth Avenue Theatre (fight and intimacy direction)
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Macbeth at Seattle Shakespeare Company
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Newsies at Village KidStage Everett (fight and intimacy direction)
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Presenting the workshop, "Working with Intimacy Directors," for Seattle stage manager group the SM Collective.
Working better together
I am a co-founder of a group of Pacific Northwest intimacy professionals working towards an anti-racist and trauma-informed approach to intimacy direction that meets the needs of our region.
Please contact me if you need an ID!
Ethos and Training
Telling stories with respect and consent
If you'd like to know about me as an intimacy director please see this video made while I was working on Troilus and Cressida at the Seattle Shakespeare Company.
I am a certified intimacy director with Intimacy Directors & Coordinators where I have trained extensively.
I have also trained with the following organizations: Theatrical Intimacy Education, Intimacy Directors of Color, Moving Body Arts, Hollaback!, Kirwan Institute, Amplify RJ, The NW Network, Kinected Center, Momentum Stage, Humble Warrior Movement Arts, and Race Forward.
Joellen Sweeney and Amelio Garcia in Much Ado About Nothing (Robert Wade Photography, Seattle Shakespeare Company).


