TIE DIPLOMA

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What is the TIE Diploma?

Theatrical Intimacy Education is grateful for the hours many spend training and learning with us. We wish to honor the education participants have completed by awarding the TIE Diploma. Earning the TIE Diploma demonstrates that the holder has a comprehensive understanding of the TIE pedagogy holistically. The TIE Diploma is earned after a participant completes a set number of courses for each level outlined below. For now, there are four degree levels: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, and Advanced Plus.

This is an umbrella document for all those letters of class completion that many have collected over the years. We hope this will provide a more efficient way to note training on curricula vitae and resumes.

How do I earn my TIE Diploma?

Please read through each diploma level. Once you have taken the set number of courses to earn the Diploma, please go to the “Request Your Diploma” button and submit your request.

How do I request my TIE Diploma?

Please click on “Request YOUR Diploma” and answer the questions. Once our team has received and verified your request, you will receive your TIE Diploma via email.

May I take classes from the next level if I have not completed the previous level?

Yes! You may take classes at any level as long as you have completed the prerequisite for that particular class. Please review the class description to determine if it has a prerequisite. Most classes require that you have taken Best Practices or the Workshop Weekend, but some do not. For example, the Two-Hour Tips: Intimacy Coordinator Lab and Hiring an IC do not have prerequisites. There are also no prerequisites for in-person workshops.

When will I receive my TIE Diploma after submitting a request?

We appreciate your patience and request 2 months for our team to verify your request and send your TIE Diploma. The Diploma you receive will be a PDF document sent to you via email.

TIE DIPLOMA Levels and Requirements

TIE Beginner Diploma

Courses Required (All Available Online):

  • Best Practices or Best Practices BIPOC/Global Majority Affinity Space

  • Theatre Studio Techniques, Casting, and Policy

    • The in-person weekend workshop will meet the requirements for the combined online Best Practices, Theatre Studio Techniques, Casting, and Policy.

  • Foundations in Race, Intimacy, and Consent

  • Intimacy Choreography For Live Performance

  • Intimacy Coordination For Film and TV

  • Working with Minors

  • Working with Trans and Non-Binary Artists

  • Actors and Intimacy

  • Modesty Garments and More!

  • Mental Health First Aid Certification (will accept other institutions with documentation)

  • Bystander Intervention Training (will accept other institutions with documentation)

TIE Intermediate Diploma

Courses Required:

In-Person Workshop:

  • Workshop Weekend
    and/or Symposium Attendance

Online Workshops, in addition to the Beginner Diploma Requirements:

  • Stage Management and Intimacy

  • Race and Choreography

  • Staging Intimacy Beyond the Binary

  • Consent in the Acting Classroom

  • Two-Hour Tips: Creating a Culture of Consent: Community Agreements

  • Two-Hour Tips: Curating Trauma-Conscious Creative Spaces

  • Two-Hour Tips: Ready to Work as an IC

  • Educators may substitute Ready to Work as an IC with Integrating Best Practices into K-12 Lesson Planning

  • Youth Mental Health First Aid (will accept training from other institutions with provided documentation)

TIE Advanced Diploma

Courses Required:

In-Person Workshop:

  • Workshop Weekend and/or Symposium Attendance
    *If you attended to qualify for your Intermediate Diploma, you do not have to attend again.

  • Intimacy Coordinator In-Person Lab and/or Intimacy Choreography In-Person Lab
    and/or Cooking with Choreography In-Person
    *You only have to attend one In-Person Lab to qualify for the Advanced Diploma.

Online Workshops, in addition to the Beginner and Intermediate Diploma Requirements:

  • Cooking with Choreography

  • Two-Hour Tips: Paperwork and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Hiring an IC

  • Two-Hour Tips: The Intimacy Coordinator Lab

  • Two-Hour Tips: The Intimacy Choreographer Lab

  • Two-Hour Tips: Voice and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Non-consensual Narratives and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Kissing Questions

  • Two-Hour Tips: Musical Theatre and Intimacy

TIE Advanced Diploma PLUS

Courses Required:

In-Person Workshops:

  • Workshop Weekend and/or Symposium Attendance
    *If you attended to qualify for your Intermediate Diploma, you do not have to attend again.

  • Intimacy Coordinator In-Person Lab
    or
    Intimacy Choreography In-Person Lab
    *You only have to attend one In-Person Lab to qualify for the Advanced Diploma.

Online Workshops, in addition to the Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Diploma Requirements. You only have to take 5 of the electivecourses from below in addition to having achieved the previous diplomas to qualify for the Advanced Plus Diploma.

  • Dance and Intimacy

  • Research Tools- Writing About Your Work

  • Stage Fighting and Intimacy

  • Cognitive Equity in Lighting Design

  • Training the Trans Singing Voice

  • Dramaturgy and Intimacy

  • Verticals and Intimacy

  • Writing and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Mediation! Guiding Productive Processes for Collaboration

  • Two-Hour Tips: Neurodiversity and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Movement Direction & Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Opera & Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Costumes and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Improv and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Shakespeare and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Lighting and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Facilitators and Boundaries

  • Two-Hour Tips: From Surviving to Thriving in Academia

  • Two-Hour Tips: Consent in the Singing Studio

  • Two-Hour Tips: Fat Performers and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: AI and Intimacy Coordination

  • Two-Hour Tips: Pregnancy and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Faith-Based Institutions and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Theatre, Film, and Sex as a Profession

Classes will be offered on various dates throughout the year.
* Diploma level class lists are subject to change.

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Please follow the instructions for requesting your diploma:

  • ONLY REQUEST YOUR DIPLOMA ONCE YOU HAVE COMPLETED ALL COURSES IN EACH LEVEL.

  • Please complete the pop-up questionnaire.

  • Your request will be added to your shopping cart. Ensure that you have thoroughly checked out before closing your browser, so your request can be submitted.

  • We verify your diploma by confirming your registrations and attendance at the required workshops. You can help expedite the verification process by emailing any letters of completion to TIE at tiediploma@theatricalintimacyed.com.

  • If you do not have letters of completion, no worries! We retain attendance and registration records for all of our workshops.

  • If you have received your training in Bystander Intervention Training and/or Mental Health First Aid Certification from an organization other than TIE, please email proof of training to tiediploma@theatricalintimacyed.com

  • Please allow two months for processing.

The SAG-AFTRA Recommended Track for Intimacy Coordinators

Below are listed the courses that may meet the SAG-AFTRA standards. For information purposes only. TIE does not offer a diploma for this track.

Consent Training:

Best Practices
Consent in the Acting Classroom

Anti-harassment/anti-sexual harassment training:

Consent in the Acting Classroom
Mental Health First Aid Certification
Bystander Intervention Training

Movement Coaching and Masking Techniques

Bystander Intervention Training
Intimacy Choreography
Cooking with Choreography
Kissing Questions

Proper use of modesty garments and barriers

Two-Hour Tips: Modesty Garments and More!

Mediation or conflict resolution training

Two-Hour Tips: Community Agreements
Two-Hour Tips: Mediation! Guiding Productive Processes for Collaboration

Gender Identity & Sexual Orientation Training

Working with Trans and Non-Binary Artists
Beyond the Binary

Anti-Racist/EDI training

Foundations in Race, Intimacy and Choreography

Bystander intervention

Bystander Intervention Training

Mental Health First Aid, Trauma Stewardship, or related training

Mental Health First Aid Certification
Two-Hour Tips: Curating Trauma-Conscious Creative Spaces