The Intimacy Coordinator's Guidebook with Brooke M. Haney

The Drama Book Shop presents, in association with Jay Michaels Global Communications, “The Intimacy Coordinator's Guidebook: Specialties for Stage and Screen” - A talkback, signing, and live podcast recording.

About the book: 

The Intimacy Coordinator's Guidebook: Specialties for Stage and Screen explores the role of the intimacy choreographer with an in-depth look at specializations that exist within the profession.

With contributions by over 30 industry professionals, this book aims to bring awareness to a wide range of needs a project may have and how intimacy professionals use their cultural competency specialists in practice to create the most compelling storytelling. In Part One, the book addresses the scope of practice of an intimacy professional by discussing competency, finding your lens and tangential fields in the industry like fight directors, mental health coordinators and cultural competency specialists. Part Two covers specialties like working with minors, prosthetics, intimacy and disability, staging queer intimacy, working with fat actors, Black American intimacy, dance, working on scenes of trauma, sexual violence and non-consent, and BDSM. Between each chapter is a conversation with an actor, director or producer on their experiences working with an intimacy coordinator. In Part Three, the book looks at what it means to be qualified and intimacy professionals' hopes for the future of the industry.

The Intimacy Coordinator's Guidebook is an invaluable resource for directors and producers looking to hire an intimacy professional, as well as in-depth study for those who are training or practicing in the field of intimacy for performance.

About the Author: 

BROOKE M. HANEY is the creator of The Actor’s Warm Down. They were one of the first 50 people in the world recognized by SAG/AFTRA on their registry of qualified intimacy coordinators. Asan IC, Brooke has worked for CBS, HBO, Amazon Prime, Paramount+, Peacock, Disney, Warner

Brothers, 20th Century Fox, and on numerous films. They are an actor with AEA and SAG/AFTRA and have their MFA in performance from the University of Central Florida. www.brookemhaney.co IG: @brookemhaney 

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