Cara Rawlings

Intimacy Director (Live Performance)

Location: Blacksburg, VA

Contact: cara.rawlings1@gmail.com

Cara Rawlings is Associate Professor of Movement and Acting in The Department of Theatre and Cinema at Virginia Tech. Ms. Rawlings has worked professionally as a teacher, fight director, intimacy director, movement coach, and dance choreographer in theatres across the U.S. and abroad in Greece and Austria.  Ms. Rawlings is a Certified Stage Combat Instructor with The Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD). She has studied Alexander Technique through the Chesapeake Bay Alexander Studies Teacher Training Program. As a Certified Intimacy Director with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC), she is focused on creating safer spaces for performers by acting as their advocate and responsibly guiding them through the process of staging choreographed moments of intimacy in performance. She is a member of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) and has served on the board of Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC).  Ms. Rawlings holds a Master of Fine Arts in Movement Pedagogy and Fight Direction from Virginia Commonwealth University.