NSW Performing Arts Students: Intimacy Professionals Alicia Rodis and Claire Warden

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  • 1 August 2022
    10:00 am - 3:30 pm
Actors Centre Australia
23 Norton Street, Shop 30 A, Italian Forum Performance Precinct, Leichhardt, Sydney, New South Wales, 2040, Australia

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Synopsis

Two session opportunities for NSW Equity acting/performing arts students to join world-leading Intimacy Professionals Alicia Rodis and Claire Warden: In August the Equity Foundation is bringing HBO studios’ intimacy co-ordinator Alicia Rodis and Broadway’s first intimacy director Claire Warden from NYC to Sydney for a series of industry training events on the role of the intimacy coordinator/director and how to navigate intimate scenes safely. NSW acting students and teachers are invited to join Alicia Rodis and Claire Warden at a presentation and practical workshop, based on the training they provide at Julliard, Yale, NYU, Brown/Trinity, Brandeis, Stella Adler, the O’Neill Theatre Center, Muhlenberg College and Sarah Lawrence. Topics covered include: How do we create a culture of consent in which intimate stories can be told with safety and artistry? What is current best practise around stage and screen intimacy? How should we even begin to approach intimate scenes?  Who is responsible for what? And what does a Intimacy Co-ordinator even do? These events will not only provide an exceptional introduction to working with intimacy but will guide students and staff to understand their roles and relationship to an intimacy professional, providing a framework for their professional practice. The session will include a Q & A session for participants to engage directly with Alicia and Claire. This event is open to all educators and students.  Once you have registered you will receive an email confirmation for both the morning and afternoon sessions. We encourage you to join Equity to get access to other future events and opportunities.  (Join by ringing 1300 65 65 13 or online:  www.meaa.org/join).  Student Membership is only $52 per year ($1 per day). The Presentation and Q&A: 60 mins presentation and 45 mins Q&A will take place from 10.00 am to 11.45 am AEST. and the: Practical Workshop: Two-hours with 12 students participating and an audience viewing will take place from 1.30 pm to 3.30 pm - AEST:      

Host(s)

  • Alicia Rodis

    Alicia Rodis pioneered the role of intimacy coordinator in the United States. She serves as the intimacy coordinator for HBO studios, consulting on their policies and protocols as well as training and vetting the IC's working on HBO sets. She is the Creative Director at Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC) which specializes in training performers and industry professionals to better approach intimate scenes, as well as trains and certifies intimacy coordinators for film and intimacy directors and choreographers for theatre. After being hired by The Deuce on HBO, Alicia worked with long-time producer Nina Noble to craft a better system for intimacy on a major television series. A system that is now becoming the industry standard. Alicia has intimacy coordinated on The Deuce (S2, S3), Watchmen, Plot Against America, Crashing (S3), High Maintenance (S4), I Know This Much Is True, And Just Like That, and Lovecraft Country as well as trained the coordinators on Euphoria, Succession and many others. 

  • Claire Warden

    Claire Warden is an intimacy director and coordinator, who has worked in theatre, TV and film across America and the UK. She is the Director of Advanced Training at Intimacy Director and Coordinators (IDC), which specializes in training performers and industry professionals to better approach intimate scenes, as well as training and certifying intimacy coordinators for film and intimacy directors for theatre. She is also part of the collaboration team that advised SAG-AFTRA on their effort to standardize, codify and implement guidelines for on-set intimacy coordinators. Claire works as an intimacy coordinator on television networks, including HBO, Hulu, Amazon and Showtime, as well major motion picture studios such as Sony and 20th Century Fox. Claire made history as the first intimacy director on Broadway with Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and also worked as intimacy director on the Broadway productions of Slave Play, The Inheritance, Jagged Little Pill and Company, among others.

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