Mission

Founded in 2017, Theatrical Intimacy Education is a consulting group specializing in researching, developing, and teaching best practices for staging theatrical intimacy. We are the oldest, established organization for training intimacy practices in the performing arts.

Theatrical Intimacy Education empowers artists with the tools to ethically, efficiently, and effectively stage intimacy, nudity, and sexual violence.

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, or ensemble in TIE Best Practices so that you aren’t on your own when the intimacy coordinator or intimacy choreographer goes home. This is about culture change.

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.