Ep. 74 Coordinating intimacy with Maddison Ridley

Today I sit down with the dynamic Maddison Ridley. We talk everything from books to intimacy coordinators. Born and raised in country NSW, Australia, Maddison has worked on stage and screen in both Sydney and London. She relocated to New York to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she graduated in 2017. She most recently wrapped up a recurring guest star role on Season 1 of 'Hightown' opposite James Badge Dale, which will premier on Starz in 2020. She can also be seen in 'Maggie' directed by Sasha Gordon, (which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize for Episodic Pilot at SXSW). Other TV credits include HBO’s 'Random Acts of Flyness', directed by Terence Nance. She starred in indie-thrillers 'Dysfunction' (Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner) and WitchHunt (Brooklyn Horror Film Festival). In 2017 she made her Off-Broadway Debut along-side Denise Gough in the critically-acclaimed, West End transfer of People, Places & Things by Duncan Macmillan (directed by Jeremy Herrin) at St. Ann's Warehouse. U.S. theatre credits include HENRY IV (Hamlet Isn't Dead), Overshadowed (Origin Theatre Company) and Measure for Measure (Scranton Shakespeare Festival). In the UK, her professional acting debut was on the West End in 2013, in The Woman in Black, and she trained and performed with the National Theatre Young Studio and the National Youth Theatre. The documentary we reference in the episode is called "In The Company of Actors" And the article about the intimacy coordinators can be found here: Intimacy Coordinators Are Changing Hollywood Sex Scenes for Good https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/08/intimacy-coordinators-screen-actors-guild?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=vanity-fair&utm_social-type=earned via @VanityFair