An intimacy director (ID) facilities, choreographs and oversees moments of intimacy onstage. Intimacy directors are there to ensure safety is taken into account at all times for everyone involved: performers, crew, artistic team, audience, and more.

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The role can include, but it not limited to:

• establishing and modelling a culture of consent in the rehearsal room

• teaching protocols incorporating consent into the rehearsal process

• staging romantic intimacy, including tools for creating “chemistry” between actors

• staging sexual intimacy, including simulated sex acts

• establishing healthy guidelines and practices for nudity in performance

• staging platonic intimacy, including intimacy between family members or friends, or vulnerability in a medical setting

• staging scenes of sexual harassment or assault, sometimes in collaboration with a fight director

• offering tools for managing personal boundaries, and for creating separation between the artist and the work

• building best practices for addressing conflict and harassment within an organisation