1st Edition
The Intimacy Coordinator's Guidebook Specialties for Stage and Screen
The Intimacy Coordinator's Guidebook: Specialties for Stage and Screen explores the role of the intimacy choreographer with an in-depth look at specializations that exist within the profession.
With contributions by over 30 industry professionals, this book aims to bring awareness to a wide range of needs a project may have and how intimacy professionals use their cultural competency specialists in practice to create the most compelling storytelling. In Part One, the book addresses the scope of practice of an intimacy professional by discussing competency, finding your lens and tangential fields in the industry like fight directors, mental health coordinators and cultural competency specialists. Part Two covers specialties like working with minors, prosthetics, intimacy and disability, staging queer intimacy, working with fat actors, Black American intimacy, dance, working on scenes of trauma, sexual violence and non-consent, and BDSM. Between each chapter is a conversation with an actor, director or producer on their experiences working with an intimacy coordinator. In Part Three, the book looks at what it means to be qualified and intimacy professionals' hopes for the future of the industry.
The Intimacy Coordinator's Guidebook is an invaluable resource for directors and producers looking to hire an intimacy professional, as well as in-depth study for those who are training or practicing in the field of intimacy for performance.
Foreword
Chelsea Pace
Introduction
Brooke M. Haney
Part 1: Scope of Practice
Brooke M. Haney
1. Competency
Brooke M. Haney
2. Finding Your Lens
Brooke M. Haney
3. Cultural Competency Specialist
Chels Morgan
4. Intimacy and Violence: A Conversation
Cha Ramos
5. Mental Health Coordinators
Amanda Edwards
Part 2: Specialities
Brooke M. Haney
6. International Considerations
Cessalee Stovall
A Conversation with Nesta Cooper
7. Working with Minors
Kim Shively
A Conversation with Grace Byers
8. Intimacy and Disability
Brooke M. Haney
A Conversation with Ryan J. Haddad
9. Working with Fat Actors
Katherine Blouse and Brooke M. Haney
A Conversation with Jen Ponton
10. Black American Intimacy
Kaja Dunn
A Conversation with Tai Lashaun
11. Queer Intimacy
Raja Benz, Brooke M. Haney, Robbie Taylor Hunt, and Leo Mock
A Conversation with Becca Blackwell
12. BDSM
Olivia Troy
A Conversation with Midori
13. Rope Scenes
Megan Gilron and Brooke M. Haney
A Conversation with Michael Emery
14. Stories of Trauma
Brooke M. Haney
A Conversation with Nate Dushku and Amnon Laurie
15. Sexual Violence and Non-Consent
Amy Northup
A Conversation with Olivia Luccardi
16. Intimacy and Dance
Brooke M. Haney with contributions from Sara Lozoff and Nicole Perry
A Conversation with Jimmy Smits
17. Prosthetics
Amanda Cutting
Part 3: Moving Forward
Brooke M. Haney
18. The Intimacy Captain
Brooke M. Haney with contributions from Ann James
19. Qualification
Brooke M. Haney
20. Adapting Your Process
Laura Rikard
21. Hopes for the Industry
Brooke M. Haney
Biography
Brooke M. Haney (they/she) is the creator of The Actor’s Warm Down. They were one of the first 50 people in the world recognized by SAG/AFTRA on their registry of qualified intimacy coordinators. As an IC, Brooke has worked for CBS, HBO, Amazon Prime, Paramount+, Peacock, Disney, Warner Brothers and on numerous films. They are an actor with AEA and SAG/AFTRA and has their MFA in performance from the University of Central Florida.
