Free Webinar with Intimacy Coordinator Claire Warden
Building a Consent Based Workspace
The Fundamentals of Intimacy Direction/Coordination
Join one of the founders and leaders of the Intimacy Direction movement, Claire Warden, in a webinar talk on the recent fundamental shifts in the industry approach to: creation scenes of nudity, hyper-exposure and simulated sex, and the elements of a consent–based workspace. Warden will give an overview of the creation and development of this new discipline and share how it has moved from its inception to its use across the industry from small independent theatres and films to on Broadway stages, network television, and major motion pictures. Learn the fundamentals of creating a consent–based process and how to approach scenes of intimacy in an inclusive, respectful, and safe way.
Followed by Q&A session.
WHEN: Saturday April 2, 2022 at 1pm – 2:30pm (HST)
Please register in advance at http://go.hawaii.edu/xxy
Claire Warden Bio
Claire (she/her) is an intimacy coordinator, fight director, teacher and actress with over twenty years experience in theatre, TV and film across America and the UK. She is the Curriculum Development Coordinator of Intimacy Director and Coordinators (www.IDCprofessionals.com), 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 advising SAG-AFTRA on their effort to standardize, codify and implement guidelines for on-set intimacy coordinators.
Claire works as an intimacy coordinator and consultant on numerous television productions under various studios including HBO, Hulu, Amazon, Showtime, Apple TV as well major motion picture studios such as Sony and 20th Century Fox. She has worked on the series Mrs Fletcher, Gossip Girl(2021), Billions, Your Honor, Looking for Alaska, Hunters and the feature films West Side Story (dir. Steven Spielberg) and A Journal for Jordan (dir. Denzel Washington), among others. Claire recently 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, Linda Vista, West Side Story and Company. She was recently awarded Variety Magazine’s 2019 ’10 Broadway Players to Watch’. Claire was also recently awarded a special Drama Desk Award for “pioneering work as an intimacy choreographer… and her leadership in the rapidly emerging movement of intimacy direction”. Claire is a Drama Desk award winner for ‘Outstanding Fight Choreography’ for Slave Play at NYTW and was also nominated in the same category for the play Daddy.
Claire trains faculty & students in acting training institutions across the country, including Yale, Brown/Trinity, Brandeis, Tufts, JMU, SITI, Stella Adler, the O’Neill Theatre Center and numerous others. She has presented and given workshops for conferences and theatre communities on both sides of the Atlantic.
www.IDCprofessionals.com www.clairewarden.com
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