
Intimacy Coordinators (ICs) do for sex scenes what designers do for period dramas: elevate realism through detail, proficiency & artistry.
If your production involves nudity, simulated sex, gender based physical or sexual violence, intense physicality, or sexually charged acts and gestures, it’s essential to engage an intimacy coordinator who ensures actors feel safe and inspired, ready to fully embody their roles both emotionally and physically.
Effective collaboration demands preparation, clarity, lightness, and trust. Trained intimacy professionals uphold the highest artistic and industry standards, carrying
・dramaturgical thinking
・technical expertise
・medical-grade professionalism
・advanced interpersonal skills
・choreographic fluency, and
・emotional intelligence of a therapist
Since 2017, intimacy has become a craft in its own right, moving beyond awkward innuendo, flat stereotypes, and (often visible even on screen) actor discomfort, making sex & physicality that’s funny, raw, messy, tender, intense, or even painful, possible, because it’s handled with professionalism & care.
4 Panagi Mpenaki str.
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Georgia travels to work
from Athens, Greece
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
ABOUT INTIMACY COORDINATION
*and how we actually do it
DRAMATURGY for
SEX & NUDITY
Remember all those times a script or play read they kiss or they have sex? That is just a placeholder calling your IC to action. ICs are sex-positive professionals who thrive in physical dramaturgy, bringing nuanced romance, sexuality, and vulnerability to the forefront of your project’s storytelling. Bring us in early. Have us contribute to your writing with intimacy scenes that match your storytelling style, develop character, and advance the plot, while giving actors a clear, playable score of action: safe, inspiring and open to their own creativity and improvisation.
AUDITIONS & CASTING
If sex or nudity is central to your project, you’ll want to incorporate intimacy into your auditioning & casting process. Put us intouch with your casting director and bring us in to co-run auditions, ask the right questions at the right moment, and communicate your project's needs. Clear communication, technical competence, and respect will help you choose the most enthusiastic and mature collaborators. In a time when connection, touch, nudity, and sex are more political than ever, let your IC support you in finding professionals who truly aspire to embody your character’s powers and vulnerabilities: How they wear their nudity, how they express desire, and how they pursue satisfaction.
TECHNIQUE, CHOREOGRAPHY, IMPOVISATION
& SPECIAL EQUIPMENT
While the project's intimacy dramaturgy might be still developing, scene needs are organised in some major technical categories: closed rehearsals (theatre) & closed sets (film & tv), choreographed and/or semi-improvised (such as simulated sex) scenes, fully improvised within defined boundaries, and scenes involving prosthetics, special garmens and other SFX. The IC meets with the actors to map boundaries, supports rehearsals, and notates choreography or looser structures. Choreographic training contributes to dramaturgical nuance and freedom within set scores, contributing to scenes that feel real. Actors who are approached with technical profficiency and respect show up with their whole selves, fully engaged and enthusiastic, willing to take larger creative risks as crusial collaborators of the project. Scroll to Georgia’s CV, to see her academic & vocational training in choreography, movement, and voice, along with her extensive experience in professional actor training and coaching.
INTIMACY REHEARSALS
rehearsal space included
Rehearsing intimacy is more than just blocking a scene. With 20 years of experience in professional actor training, Georgia brings consent mediation, touch, and physical play into the room in ways that are both dramaturgically rich and as light as a game. Georgia hosts the process by offering opening and closing practices, conflict reconciliation tools, and consent-sharing methods; structures you can then integrate into your work with the actors, throughout rehearsal and into your shooting or your play.
Is your pre-production taking place in Greece? Georgia hosts intimacy rehearsals at her studio in central Athens, COCHLEA studia. COCHLEA studia is a stunning 200sqm working space, including 80sqm of solid oak-wood floor ideal for movement & voice work. The space is not wheel-chair accessible yet, and houses three cats. It is placed 13min from Ampelokipi subway station, and 7min from Lycabettus forest hill. COCHLEA studia rehearsal space is provided at no additional cost as part of Georgia's IC services, ensuring a comfortable and dedicated environment for all intimacy rehearsals. Check the location on google-maps here.
CONSENT MEDIATION, ACTIVATING CONTENT
& CONFLICT RESOLUTION
As scenes might continue to evolve, consent is gently and continuously reaffirmed. If a boundary is accidentally crossed, the intimacy coordinator steps in calmly and constructively to help restore clarity and trust. The goal is always to maintain a safe, collaborative space where actors can focus on the work with confidence.
Your IC also supports cast and crew in navigating potentially triggering material (especially scenes involving gender-based violence & abuse) protecting collegial relationships beyond character dynamics or narrative needs. ICs are grounded in accountability & kindness. Talk to us. We’re trained to listen, and when something falls outside our scope, we’ll help direct you to the right support. Scroll to Georgia’s CV, to see her accredited trainings in diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging (DEIB), conflict & restorative practices, mental health first aid, trauma-informed practices and more.
ON-SET & BACK-STAGE
kit & skill
The IC brings an on-set & back-stage kit with extra modesty garments, mints, wipes, skin-tone tape, deodorant, and other practical items. Readiness in the small things help everyone stay focused on the work. Georgia and her kit are the Mary Poppins & bag duet of performed intimacy: ingeniously problem-solving, audaciously comforting, and unapologetically supercalifragilistic!
GEORGIA PAIZI
intimacy choreography
physical dramaturgy
consent mediation
Georgia Paizi (she/her) is a bilingual (eng/gr) intimacy coordinator working across Greek and international productions. An accredited actor’s trainer, hands-on practitioner and choreographer, with almost 20 years of experience in physical storytelling, kinesiology, and choreography, Georgia has been activly contributing to the sustainability of safe working and training spaces in fields where the body and touch are central, since 2005.
Georgia trained with the Intimacy Directors & Coordinators professionals (IDC, 2022-2025) successfully completing their certification course (Minessota 2025) recognised by SAG-AFTRA. She is the first Greek professional to specialise in intimacy coordination for film, TV, and theatre, and one of the very few working across Southern Europe and the Balkans.
Georgia's background spans movement, voice, & theatre, with studies and certifications in Greece, the UK, Europe, and the US. She has received awards & fellowships from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (ARTWORKS), Trinity Laban, and the Greek State Scholarship Fund, while in 2023 was shortlisted for both a Fulbright and a British Council Alumni award. She is a member of the Alexander Technique International teachers’ association (ATI), the Skinner Releasing teachers' Network (SNR), and Women in Film & Television Greece (WIFT GR).
Georgia brings calm, kindness, and profficiency to every set, gracefully making space for risk, honesty, and better storytelling.
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INTIMACY COORDINATION
projects
COMPLETED
・Tropic Of The Mourning Gecko (2025), Dir. S Markoulakis, DoP G Valsamis, Prod. I Bolomiti, Atalante Productions
・When the Music Stoped (2025), Dir. S Stavrou, DoP K Koukoulios, Prod. I Aidoni, Marni Films
・House of David (2025), Dir. J. Gunn, JT Thomas, DoP S Sarketzis, Prod. Amazon Prime, Argonauts Productions
UPCOMING
While still open to new collaborations, Georgia is currently in the pre-production phase of three feature films and one short film scheduled to shoot in 2026. If you are interested in booking Georgia for your project, please get in touch as soon as possible.
REFERENCES
appereances
media
memberships
・66th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Agora Ask me Anything industry guest, Thessaloniki 2025
・WIFTgr 50/50 festival, workshop & round-table, Athens 2024
・TA NEA, D. Marinou, 18.10.2025
・OffScreen NovaCinema podcast, P. Lykourgou, 21.03.2025
・GNTV ERT Morning Show, F. Sergoulopoulos & J Melita, 26.02.2025
・Cultural Magazino FM105.5, M. Thanassoulia, 13.01.2025
・Monopoli.gr, A. Routsi, 28.11.2024
・AthensVoice, Ch. Galanopoulou, 22.11.2024
・IMDB since 2025
・IDC inventory since 2025
・WIFT member since 2024
・British Council Alumni Award finalist 2024
・SRN member since 2024
・ATLAS ImpulsTANZ 2022
・ARTWORKS SNF fellowship 2021
・TanzFabrik Berlin 2019
・ATI member since 2017
INTIMACY COORDINATION
core training
Georgia is fully trained (2022–2025) by leading SAG-AFTRA-affiliated organisation Intimacy Directors & Coordinators (IDC), led by pioneering intimacy, fight, and stunt coordinators Alicia Rodis (Scenes from a Marriage, 2021), and Claire Warden (Dying for Sex, 2025) who is also mentoring Georgia directly. Alicia & Claire are widely recognized as foundational figures in the field for their contribution to SAG-AFTRA’s safe set protocols, and have directly trained the majority of ICs training new colleagues on IDC's or smaller organisation courses.
Core IC training courses by Intimacy Directors & Coordinators professionals
・IDC Certification Intensive, MN USA, 5-11 April 2025 (56 contact hours)
・IDC Accelerator Program, 2023–2024
・IDC Consent Forward Artist training, 2022–2023
Further workshops by Theatrical Intimacy Education (TIE)
・Industry Best Practices
・Staging Non-Consensual Conduct
・Supporting the Trans Voice in Acting & Singing
SAG-AFTRA
biyearly accredited training
・diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging
・conflict & restorative practices
・trauma informed practices
・mental health first aid
Consent requires work environments that acknowledge the systemic inequalities within which we collaborate. Holding space with both lightness and responsibility demands exceptionally self-regulated professionals who embody accountability. Proficiency in the following areas is a prerequisite for recognition as a professional Intimacy Coordinator by our certifying bodies (IDC & SAG-AFTRA). Georgia has completed internationally recognized training in consent, DEIB, trauma-informed practices, and is a certified Mental Health First Aider. Since 2020, Georgia has been actively contributing to the establishment of an ecology of artistic labor grounded in consent, both locally and internationally.
・Mental Health First-Aid (9h), Wit & Reason (SAG - AFTRA)
・Trauma-Informed Practice (8h), TRIVE LDN by Nicola Lester Trauma Consultancy (Mayor of London)
・Compassion Fatigue Training (3h), EF Learning (NHS)
・Anti-Harassment, Anti-Sexual Harassment, Anti-Bullying, Safeguarding (6h), Wit & Reason (SAG - AFTRA), BROOK, Screen Skills
・Bystander Intervention & Harm Disrupting (6h), Wit & Reason (SAG - AFTRA), Safe to Create, BROOK, EDUcare, VinciWorks
・Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (50h), VinciWorks, EDUcare, ELM, Safe & Equal
・Gender Inclusion, Sexual Identity, Relationship & Sex Education (40h), Trans Care BC, BROOK, Institute for Sex Positive Therapy
・Allyship & Advocacy (7h), VinciWorks, CCHE, Jimanekia Eborn
・Conflict Resolution (25h), Kai Cheng Thom (The Embodiment Lab)
・Racial Restorative Justice & White Privilege (4h), Amplify Restorative Justice
MOVEMENT & VOICE
DIRECTION
venues
conservatories
university courses
Choreographer & Artistic Director
COCHLEA studia, Athens 2017 - ongoing
cochleares.com/cochleaprojects
Head of Training
Guts | Eyes | Bones | Boundaries (GEBB), Athens 2020 - 2025
Movement Teacher (freelancing)
professional training workshops & classes
venues, conservatories, university courses
in Athens, London, Berlin 2017 - today
・COCHLEA studia, Athens 2017 - ongoing
・Judith Leibowitz Scholarship Fund, NY/online 2024
・SommerTanz TanzFabrik Berlin, Berlin 2019
・Akropoditi DanceFest, Syros 2019
・Attico School of Ancient Drama, Elefsina 2019
・Music Village, Pelion 2018
・DOCK11, Berlin 2018
・Chisenhale Dance Space, London 2014 - 2018
・Greek Dance-Therapist guild professional training, Athens 2022
・PhonoQuest, Epidaurous 2022
・Municipal Theater of Patras Drama School, Patras 2020 - 2021
・DILOS theater school, Athens 2017 - 2023
・Filippos Nakas Conservatory, Athens 2018
・Modern Times Drama School, Athens 2018 - 2019
・Maro Marmarinou Professional Dance School, Athens 2017
・Theater Studies Department, UoP, Nafplio 2020
・Performing & Digital Arts Department, UoP, Nafplio 2020
・Dance Departments, Stockholm University of the Arts 2020
・Department of Theater, AUTh, Thessaloniki 2019
MOVEMENT & VOICE
DIRECTION
research
& training background
・Post-Pandemic Intersectional Voice & Breath Practices for the Performing Arts.
Self-directed reseach incl. Buteyko, Fitzmaurice, BMC, Dymon, Myers, Kinesiology Taping, Angelique Willkie & other practices, Athens 2020–22.
・Joan Skinner Releasing Technique, SRN Teacher Training, Glasgow cohort 2023–24.
・Foundation Course Anatomy & Physiology, CCST, London 2016.
・Alexander Technique, LCATT/STAT Teacher Training, London 2013–17.
・MA Creative Practice: Dance Professional Practice, Trinity Laban CMD, London 2014–16.
・MA Cultural Studies & Spatial Design, NTUA 2009–12.
・BA Theatre Studies, major in dramaturgy - minors in choreography & costume UoP 2003–9.
