INTIMACY DIRECTORS
FOR STAGE

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All our registered Intimacy Directors are:


ISS Certified Intimacy Directors
Experienced working with professional actors and directors
Instructors of various movement disciplines
Adult Mental Health First Aiders 
Emergency First Aiders
Creative Industry Passport Holders
CPD registered training in: Sexual Harassment, Equality & Diversity,
Unconscious Bias, Conflict Resolution and LGBTQ+ Awareness.

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We support the Stage Directors UK Guidelines and the Equity supported Intimacy Guidelines for the practice of intimacy in theatre.


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lizzy
talbot
intimacy director

simone 
​Ellul 
intimacy director

LUCY 
​FENNELL  
intimacy director
ISS / IDC Certified Intimacy Director
​Work Permit: UK / USA   
​ISS Certified Intimacy Director
Work Permit: EU
​ISS Certified Intimacy Director
Work Permit: UK
Lizzy (she/her) has an MA in Theatre Direction and is currently working towards a PhD in Intimacy. She is also a certified Stage Combat Teacher for the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat and has also worked as a Movement Professor in the USA. Lizzy has been working in the arts industry since 2009 across the UK and the US as a Fight Director, Actress, Movement Director and Intimacy Director.
​Lizzy has been researching Intimacy since 2015 and was the founder of Theatrical Intimacy in 2016 - the first Intimacy Company in the UK and is also the Director of Intimacy for Stage and Screen. Lizzy is a visiting lecturer for various educational institutions across the US and UK and has taught workshops at East 15, Drama Studio London, National Opera Stuidio, Quinnipiac, Baylor and many others. To request or a full list of professional and educational credits please email Lizzy directly. 

 
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Simone is an Intimacy Director certified with the ISS (Intimacy for Stage and Screen) based in Malta/Europe. She is also a theatre practitioner with experience in acting, directing and scriptwriting. She has extensive experience as an improviser and improvisation teacher. She has been exploring ways of making intimacy safe for improvisers and has developed workshops that allow improvisers to dig deeper in their scenes and express intimacy naturally and safely. She has also developed workshops to portray intimacy online. 
Simone has a background in Shakespeare and stage combat and has an MFA in Staging Shakespeare from the University of Exeter. Her acting credits in Malta include Dr. Martha Livingstone in Agnes of God, Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible. She has also performed in Brussels, playing Regan, King Lear, Duchess of Gloucester, Richard II, Widow, All’s Well that Ends Well, Lady Macduff, Macbeth, Sue Bayliss, All My Sons, Mrs. Allwit, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. She helped coordinate the fights in King Lear, Richard II, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. Her play The Garden won the Best Script award at the MADC’s One-Act Play Festival in 2019. 
Lucy Fennell is an intimacy director and theatre maker specialising in improvisation. She has trained in Lecoq, clowning and bouffon, as well as extensively in improvised theatre. She is also a qualified teacher and sex educator specialising in working with students with SEMH.
Lucy is a founding member of 'Impromptu Shakespeare' and is an associate director at the Bristol Improv Theatre. She is interested in cultivating authentic, candid improvised work which has the capacity to jolt and surprise both audience and improviser. As part of this she is committed to creating an empowering, open space for participants to discover, learn and be inspired.


 
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robbie
taylor hunt
​intimacy director

ISS Certified Intimacy Director
​Work Permit: UK/New Zealand
Robbie is an Intimacy Director based between New Zealand and the UK. He's a graduate of the Mercury Theatre's Early Career Training Programme, and has undertaken training with Frantic Assembly and the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat. He's passionate about facilitating realistic and creative representations of intimacy involving LGBTQIA+ characters, and supporting the needs of queer creatives during the staging or filming of any intimate content. He also has extensive experience working with young people in theatres. 
He has run introductory Intimacy workshops for actors and directors at drama schools (LAMDA, RADA), Universities (Victoria University, Carnegie Mellon University) and theatres (BATS Theatre). His Intimacy Direction credits include: Rotterdam (LAMDA), Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Gryphon Theatre), Celestial Nobodies (BATS Theatre). His assistant credits include: Hole (Circa Theatre), Ophelia Thinks Harder (Gryphon Theatre), and The Winter's Tale (LAMDA). 

As a Director and Assistant Director, he’s worked on the West End, Off-West End, and at regional venues.
 

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lawrence 
carmichael 
​intimacy director

ISS Certified Intimacy Director
​Work Permit: UK/Australia
Lawrence Carmichael is an experienced theatre and film professional with a long history of work in the UK, Europe and Australia. He has worked as both a fight and movement director on many productions, focusing on close physical contact, movement and intimacy. Companies include Sydney Theatre Company, Opera Australia, Opera Up Close UK, Bell Shakespeare, ATG Productions, BBC television, BBC Film International, Pulse Films and Film 4. He is a certified Fight Instructor, Fight Director and Film Fight Coordinator with over 20 years of experience.
Also a respected acting and performance coach, Lawrence specialises in actor preparation via Meisner and modern method approaches. He teaches at multiple institutions and gives private coaching to actors on projects. His focus is on depth and truthful behaviour via healthy and sustainable practices. Lawrence continues to practice as an actor and director and has appeared in and produced many productions in the UK and Australia, including the West End and UK national touring.
Besides his training as an actor and singer, Lawrence has a background in contemporary dance, contact improvisation, motion capture, primal movement, clown and physical comedy, commedia dell'arte, Meisner technique, various martial arts, stage combat and stunts.

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niamh mckernan 

ISS Trainee Intimacy Director
​Work Permit: UK/EU/Ireland

sue 
​mythen
intimacy director

ISS Certified Intimacy Director
​Work Permit: UK/EU/Ireland
Sue is a Dublin based Movement Director and Intimacy Director. She was an actor for many years before completing an MA Movement Studies at Central School of Speech and Drama.
Sue’s Movement Direction at The Abbey, National Theatre of Ireland includes;Crestfall , Oedipus, Shadow of a Gunman, RUR, Hedda Gabler, Twelfth Night, Plough& the Stars, Heartbreak House, 16 Possible Glimpses, The House, The Rivals, and Pygmalion. She has also worked with The Lyric, Gate, Druid, Landmark, Verdant and ANU who specialise in site specific work, most recently The Lost O’Casey for which
she won Best Movement Director (Irish Times Theatre Awards 2019). 
Intimacy for Stage includes: Our New Girl (Gate), Asking For It (Gaiety/Birmingham Rep.), White Devil (Shakespeare’s Globe)
and On Raftery’s Hill (Abbey). Other work includes: choreography for Northanger Abbey (ITV Drama) and for opera Elektra (Canadian Opera Company), Radamisto (NI Opera), Semele (RIAM), and
Dead Man Walking (Opera Ireland). Sue has taught at various drama schools, (Central School of Speech & Drama, RADA, ALRA, Gaiety School of Acting) and is Head of Movement at The Lir, Trinity College
Dublin.

sara
green 
​intimacy director

ISS Certified Intimacy Director
​Work Permit: UK
Sara is a movement director, choreographer and intimacy director working across theatre, film and dance. 
She’s worked on projects for Radiohead, London Fashion Week and the RSC; and received choreography  commissions for Manchester International Festival, Modern Panic and Corsica Studios. 
Sara has extensive experience working with actors, dancers and musicians across a variety of settings;  ensuring safe, confident performances, strong character portrayal, authentic relationships, and slick  choreography. Upcoming projects pre COVID-19 included Much Ado About Nothing for Shakespeare’s  Globe. 
Sara trained at Laban and has since taught movement at Mountview, ALRA, East 15 and Rose Bruford.  She has run workshops for the Young Vic, RTYDS, USF Florida and Micadanses Paris. 
Sara is currently supported by Jerwood Foundation to develop digital work ID MY ASS with Jo Portus;  Dansearena Nord + R.E.D Norway to develop dance film WILD WOMEN; and Arts Council England to  explore the translation of dance through motion capture.  
She recently qualified as an Intimacy Director with Intimacy for Stage & Screen, and is about to begin  facilitating online sector-wide conversations around intimacy in dance.  
For full credits and contact details - saragreen.co.uk
 

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josh 
okpala

ISS Intimacy Director
​Work Permit: UK

hannah rose
goalstone
​intimacy director

ISS Certified Intimacy Director
​Work Permit: UK/USA
Hannah Rose Goalstone is an intimacy director, director, teacher and actor with more than 20 years of professional experience working with companies and training programmes in the U.S. and the U.K. Her work has been seen in renowned regional theatres across the U.S., and she has starred in multiple Off-Broadway productions. Hannah’s directing credits include assistant directing Liev
Schreiber on Wilderness of Mirrors (NYSF & Powerhouse), performance credits include Off-Broadway: Portia - Merchant, Princess of France - L.L.L. (The Shakespeare Forum), Regional: Virginia -The Life of Galileo (Asolo Rep), Adele - Ode to Joy (Asolo Rep, written/directed by Craig Lucas), Hermia- Midsummer (Brooklyn Shakes), Co-creator/performer: Life in the Middle (Kj Sanchez, Asolo Rep/Two Rivers), Out/spoken (About Face Theatre), The Pleiades (Iconoclast Theatre Project).
Hannah’s extensive professional experience in varying facets of theatre and heart-centred approach, enable her to create moments of intimacy for performance with compassion, advocacy, and a commitment to artful and truthful story-telling in a safe and empowering working environment. Hannah holds an M.F.A. in acting from the FSU/Asolo Conservatory.
 
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adelaide 
​waldrop

ISS Trainee Intimacy Director
​Work Permit: UK/USA
Adelaide Waldrop is an Intimacy Director, Intimacy Coordinator, Director, and Theatremaker based in London, UK. She completed her certification as an Intimacy Director for Stage with ISS in 2020.

Her work as an Intimacy Director includes The Color Purple (Curve Theatre, 2019), MEAT (Theatre503, 2020), Rotterdam (LAMDA, 2019), The Winter's Tale (LAMDA, 2019), and The Treatment (LAMDA, 2018). As an Intimacy Coordinator Adelaide has worked on productions for the BBC, Apple TV, Sky, Starz, and Working Title as well as several short films and music videos. Adelaide has taught Intimacy as a guest practitioner at RADA and Mountview and has been teaching at LAMDA since 2019 where she is working to establish a comprehensive curriculum of Intimacy for Performance. 
Adelaide graduated from LAMDA in 2017 with an MA in Directing. Her movement training includes Lecoq, Laban, Michael Chekhov, and Pure Movement. 
Adelaide's work as a theatremaker in ensemble-led, devised theatre informs her collaborative approach to Intimacy Direction and her ability to facilitate intimate choreography. She is passionate about authentic representations of sexuality on stage, with a particular focus on expanding approaches to intimate storytelling involving women and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. 
Adelaide is a founding member and Co-Artistic Director of Maude, an ensemble-devised theatre company based in London.
For a full list of professional credits please contact Adelaide directly.
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