Celebrating the release of The Intimacy Coordinator’s Guidebook: Specialties for Stage and Screen, edited by Brooke M. Haney.

A reading and presentation of excerpts from The Intimacy Coordinator’s Guidebook, followed by a facilitated conversation with editor Brooke M. Haney and contributors Raja Benz, Kaja Dunn, Amy Northup, Chelsea Pace, Cha Ramos, and Olivia Troy.

The Intimacy Coordinator’s Guidebook: Specialties for Stage and Screen explores the role of the intimacy choreographer with an in‐depth look at specializations that exist within the profession. With contributions by over 30 industry professionals, this book aims to bring awareness to the wide range of needs a project may have and how intimacy professionals use their cultural competencies and specialties in practice to create the most compelling storytelling. Specialties covered include working with minors, prosthetics, intimacy and disability, staging queer intimacy, working with fat actors, Black American intimacy, dance, working on scenes of trauma, sexual violence and non‐consent, and BDSM.

To reserve a copy of The Intimacy Coordinator’s Guidebook: Specialties for Stage and Screen (Routledge, April 1, 2024, paperback, $42.95), please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve copy of Intimacy Coordinator’s Guidebook” in the subject line.