Lauren Kiele DeLeon
Director of Community Education
Teaching Artist
Contact: lauren@idcprofessionals.com
Lauren Kiele DeLeon (she/her/ella) is a Latina intimacy director & coordinator, teaching artist, and director from Miami, Florida based in NYC. She holds a Master’s degree in Performance Studies from NYU with a thesis on Decolonizing Touch through Intimacy Direction. Her work focuses on care centered practices and how that reflects and engages practices of decolonization as well as translating intimacy work for Spanish speaking theatre and companies.
Currently, Lauren is co-captain of Culture and Accountability and the resident Intimacy Director at The Fled Collective. She is an adjunct graduate faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College teaching Intimacy in Performance Level 2 as well as assisting the Introduction to Intimacy in Performance courses at SLC and NYU. Lauren is a teaching artist with IDC in Level 1 and Level 2 courses alongside assisting the Level 3 Certification course for both Intimacy Direction and Coordination.
Previously, Lauren served as the Individual Giving Associate at Manhattan Theatre Club, the Development Assistant at The Lark Theatre, a Resident Director at The Flea, a member of the Roundabout’s Refocus Project Artistic Council, a NY Latinx Theatre Salon Panelist, and member of Roundabout Theatre's 2019-20 Emerging Directors Group.
Her intimacy choreography has been seen at NYU, Downstage at Sarah Lawrence College, The New School, BRIC, The Tank, The Kraine, Columbia University, Weston Playhouse Theatre, Queens College, and more. Consent courses have been taught at Washington Improv Theatre, SUNY Purchase College, and NYU. www.laurenkdeleon.com