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 As an Intimacy Coordinator and Director, Emily works in Film, TV, Theater, Commercials, and Branded Content to facilitate an environment of informed consent, communication, and support. Her approach is extremely collaborative, working with the director, actors, and crew to advance the story through specific choreographed movements. Often viewing herself as a translator, Emily ensures both the director's vision and the safety of actors are upheld. With over a decade of professional choreography experience, Emily is deeply attuned to the complexity of directing bodies in space. She specializes in LGBTQ representation and sexuality. She is trained as an intimacy director and coordinator through Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC), Theatrical Intimacy Education (TIE), and Chelsea Pace's Open Intimacy Creatives. As per SAG-AFTRA guidelines, she is certified in mental health first aid and bystander intervention.

 

Emily serves as the Intimacy Director and Educator at Cal Arts Schools of Theater, Film, and Dance where she teaches workshops in Consent, Boundaries, Intimacy, a semester long course in Best Practices to Intimacy Directing for Stage Managers, an is the intimacy for all live theater productions requiring an Intimacy Director.  Some of her credits include multiple grindr commercials; Come as You are, a Netflix NEWFEST Short; 72, a story of Cuban Immigrants living in New York in the 1970s that saw its premiere at Sundance; and Scenes with Cranes, which premiered at REDCAT Theater.