Tonia Sina, Founding Voice in Intimacy Direction & Choreography

Tonia Sina (She/Her)

Tonia Sina is the first ever Intimacy Choreographer and created the term in her master’s thesis at VCU. Along with teaching workshops internationally, while traveling with her service dog, Daphne Rose, she has choreographed intimacy at the Chicago Lyric Opera, Stratford Festival, Marriott Theatre, and the Guthrie Theatre, among others. Featured in the NY Times, the LA Times, The Washington Post, American Theatre Magazine, CBC Radio, Huffington Post, and hundreds of other publications and podcasts, Tonia has been researching Intimacy for the Stage and Sexual Harassment in the industry since she began research for her thesis in 2004.

Also a playwright, director, and performer, Tonia is a triple kidney transplant recipient and rare and chronic disease patient ambassador and national motivational speaker  She attended Virginia Commonwealth University where she studied movement and stage combat, and she earned her MFA in Movement Pedagogy with a specialty in Intimacy for the Stage. She is currently writing a book about the origins of the intimacy direction movement.