Mission

Theatrical Intimacy Education’s mission is to make everyone in the room better at being in the room. Established in 2017, Theatrical Intimacy Education is a consulting group specializing in researching, developing, and teaching best practices for staging theatrical intimacy and more progressive practices for collaboration and leadership. We are the oldest, established organization for training intimacy practices in the performing arts.

Our journey initially began with developing better practices for staging moments of intimacy and instilling self-care in the performance process. We have since expanded our offerings. We train artists who want to specialize in being Intimacy Coordinators, Intimacy Choreographers, and/or Intimacy Directors; as well as, also offering training to support being better leaders, teachers, administrators, directors, producers, and many other roles where the establishment of consent based environments is desired.

Theatrical Intimacy Education empowers everyone with the tools to ethically, efficiently, and effectively stage intimacy, nudity, create consent based spaces, establish boundaries in all environments, and help everyone develop progressive practices. This is about culture change.

We provide consulting and training in how to establish consent based spaces in all forums. We expand upon how to foster an environment where establishing and respecting boundaries is normal. 

We train the whole company, department, and/or ensemble in TIE Best Practices and beyond. Although based in the performing arts we provide support for all spaces looking to establish a more progressive culture when it comes to managing power dynamics in an equitable way.

We believe that all processes should be Ethical, Efficient, and Effective, and we want to train you to do it.

Theatrical Intimacy Education Faculty are highly trained in our pedagogy and methodology. Any participant in a TIE workshop is encouraged to bring the tools from the workshop into their own practice and use them in rehearsal, on set, or in the classroom.

Only TIE Faculty are permitted to teach the TIE pedagogy and tools in workshops. If you see a TIE workshop being offered by someone not on our faculty, please let us know.