Intimacy director

Intimacy Direction is a specialized discipline within the theater world that focuses on creating a safe and respectful environment for the staging of intimate moments. It ensures that actors have clear boundaries, consent is established, and sensitive content is handled with care, fostering a more inclusive and professional creative process.

As an Intimacy Director, I am called to facilitate a collaborative and secure space for actors and production teams to explore intimate moments in a respectful and empowering manner. With a deep understanding of consent, privacy, and communication, I bring expertise in choreographing and staging these scenes while prioritizing the emotional well-being and artistic integrity of everyone involved.

Coming Soon

grandmother/bathtub by Brian Dang

(Yale Cabaret 57)

Grandmother won’t leave the tub, even though it’s on a fault-line ready to split. Nat comes home sometimes to give her a bath and keeps vowing to leave for good. They don’t speak the same language but they try to reconcile every memory and every word as the world keeps splitting open. They keep trying.

Dance Nation by Clare Barron

(Yale Cabaret 57)

An army of pre-teen dancers navigate puberty, friendship, and girlhood through as they rehearse for Nationals. This show is a combination of Dance Moms, Eighth Grade, and Black Swan – intimate, hilarious, and dark. Audiences will no doubt be forced to interrogate how we view girls in modern America.

Din Din by Brenda Withers

(Yale Cabaret 57)

A well-heeled couple invites two single friends over for a decadent dinner. When free flowing wine and superficial sparring give way to more pronounced tensions, boundaries of civility, class, and natural attraction are brought into question. A meditation on predators, prey, and the insatiable appetite of a killer instinct.

Alien Girls by Amy Berryman

(Yale Summer Cabaret Greenhouse)

Tiffany is pregnant. Her best friend, Carolyn, is trying to be happy for her. When Carolyn's true feelings become public in the form of an essay that goes viral, the fallout may be irreparable. Time traveling through decades of friendship between two writers on the brink of huge life changes, ALIEN GIRLS is a meta-theatrical dark comedy about the joys and challenges of creating art and creating life.

IVERA by Antonia Cruz-Kent

(Lenfest Center for the Arts)

IVERA is a love letter to Puerto Rican womanhood and a condemnation of medical racism. After Ivera falls into a coma due to doctors’ negligence during the birth of her first child, she grapples with not only the impending loss of herself, but the decay of everyone around her. From her hospital room, she relives her happiest moments, and comes face-to-face with her saddest ones. As the veil between worlds begins to lift, Ivera, caught somewhere in-between, soon realizes her perfect, vibrant, passionate life wasn’t as beautiful as she always thought it was.