Claire Warden

Curriculum Development Coordinator

Intimacy Director (Live Performance)

Intimacy Coordinator (TV/Film)

Location: New York City, NY

Contact: claire@idcprofessionals.com

Claire is an intimacy director and coordinator, fight director, teacher and actress with over twenty years experience in theatre, TV and film across America and the UK.

Claire works as an intimacy coordinator and consultant on television networks, including HBO, Hulu, Amazon, Showtime, as well major motion picture studios such as Sony and 20th Century Fox. She is part of the collaboration team advising SAG-AFTRA on their effort to standardize, codify and implement guidelines for on-set intimacy coordinators.

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 and Linda Vista. She was recently awarded Variety Magazine’s 2019 ’10 Broadway Players to Watch’. 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. Off-Broadway, she has intimacy and fight directed Slave Play (NYTW), Daddy (Vineyard/New Group), Mies Julie and Dance of Death (CSC) and BLKS (MCC Theatre) as well as others both in New York and regionally.

Claire trains faculty & students in acting training institutions across the country, including Yale, NYU, Brown/Trinity, Brandeis, Stella Adler, the O’Neill Theatre Center, Muhlenberg College, Sarah Lawrence, HB Studios and numerous others. She has presented and given workshops for conferences and theatre communities on both sides of the Atlantic.