INTIMACY COORDINATOR

Creating Safer Spaces & Empowered Performances

WORK WITH SARAH

  • INTIMACY COORDINATION

    For any scenes that involve nudity, sex, intimacy, kink, sex workers or LGBTQIA+ characters Sarah will work with you to achieve the show’s creative vision while providing the performers a safe environment.

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  • CULTURAL COMPETENCY

    For projects exploring queer identities, kink, nonmonogamy, tantra, spiritual sexual practices, body acceptance Sarah will help you develop authentic characters and representation.

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  • TRAINING & WORKSHOPS

    Whether you are looking to expand your personal knowledge or exploring a sexuality topic for a project, Sarah offers tailored presentations on virtually every facet of sexuality from consent to fetishes.

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“Sarah offers a unique perspective that combines professional production and sexuality experience. On set, she facilitates efficient production needs while creating a comfortable work environment for performers to open up, feel comfortable and give their best to intimate material.”

  • Ben Hoffman, DP

 

What is an Intimacy Coordinator?

When your script contains nudity, sex, kink, or any kind of physical intimacy or “hyper exposure” it is best practice to bring an Intimacy Coordinator on to your project.

An Intimacy Coordinator will act as a liaison between actors & production to ensure that consent is obtained and maintained for all acts of intimacy & that proper safety protocols are followed. In addition, ICs review nudity riders, modesty garments & will support the Director with choreography for intimate scenes, as needed. ICs protect performers’ boundaries so they can deliver their best work.

Intimacy Coordinators have a positive impact on tv and film productions:

  • IC provides choreography that heightens believability & protects performer boundaries for intimate scenes

  • IC coordinates with production and actors on the nudity and simulated sex riders

  • IC establishes and ensures continued consent from actors to both the action performed and the likeness seen throughout the process of production & supports efficient production flow.

  • IC ensures adherence to proper closed set protocol based on SAG-AFTRA guidelines

  • IC collaborates with departments, such as costumes, make-up and props on nudity garments, barriers, and prosthetics

  • IC’s bring cultural competency and can advocate effectively and with sensitivity for performers of shared identities and lived experiences.