Private Workshops & Consulting
Become a Leader in Consent-Forward Practices
Intimacy Professionals are now a mandatory practice for nearly all performance industries, including Television, Film, Theatre, Dance, Opera, and more.
IDC works with your organization to integrate this new role and updated policies ensuring a safe and creative environment for your entire team.
Our methods have been thoroughly vetted, and continue to adjust to meet the highest standards for this work. Let us help you meet the highest standards for handling scenes of intimacy both on stage and on screen.
Private Workshops
IDC builds each workshop to meet an organization’s specific goals and objectives:
Empower actors to follow impulses, dive into character work, and collaborate freely while maintaining body autonomy and consent.
Prepare directors and choreographers to work with intimacy professionals and support basic scenes of intimacy on their own.
Establish a culture of consent that applies to both intimate and non-intimate scene work.
Consultation
Work with an IDC professional to develop a customized plan for your organization. We’ll create a personalized proposal that empowers your creative and administrative team members to support scenes of intimacy while maintaining artistic freedom.
Our consultants work at the entertainment industry’s highest levels, from Broadway to Major Television Sets - and apply this knowledge to meet your needs.
Customize Your Approach
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About Us
IDC is the premier organization for consent and intimacy training in the entertainment industry. We are known for our excellent certification programs for intimacy coordinators in TV and Film, and Intimacy Directors in Live Performance.
Our Credentials and Qualifications
IDC is one of nine intimacy programs worldwide to be accredited by SAG-AFTRA to train and certify Intimacy Coordinators.
IDC’s executive leadership is compromised of top industry professionals working at the highest levels of this industry including but not limited to Broadway, Off-Broadway, HBO, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and more!
Beyond this, our executive team holds several relevant advanced degrees, including:
PhD in Theatre with a research focus on Intimacy in Entertainment
MFA in Theater Pedagogy
MBA in Business
IDC’s teaching artists all have practical knowledge of intimacy direction/coordination and have demonstrated commitment to facilitating an inclusive and respectful learning environment for all participants, facilitators, and staff. Combined, they represent years of experience working at all levels of the industry.