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 your IC in early. Have them 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. 

If sex or nudity is central to your project, you’ll want to incorporate intimacy into your auditioning & casting process. Put your IC intouch with your casting director and bring them 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 characters' powers and vulnerabilities: How they wear their nudity, how they express desire, and how they pursue satisfaction.

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 down to Georgia’s bio & cv, to see her academic & vocational training in choreography, movement, and voice, along with her extensive experience in professional actor training and coaching.

Rehearsing intimacy is more than just blocking a scene. With 20 years of experience in professional actor training, Georgia brings consent mediation, touch, and physicality 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.

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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.​​ 

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 your IC. 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 bio & cv, to see her accredited trainings in diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging (DEIB), conflict & restorative practices, mental health first aid, trauma-informed practices and more.

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! ​​