TOO Episode 37- Conversation with Intimacy Director Alicia Rodis

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode, Adam and Budi speak with Intimacy Director and Coordinator Alicia Rodis.Alicia Rodis pioneered the role of intimacy coordinator in the United States. She serves as the intimacy coordinator for HBO studios, consulting on their policies and protocols as well as training and vetting the IC's working on HBO sets. She is a co-founder of Intimacy Directors International (IDI) and is a part of the executive team behind the new company Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC) which specializes in training performers and industry professionals to better approach intimate scenes, as well as trains and certifies intimacy coordinators for film and intimacy directors and choreographers for theatre.An actor and dancer from a young age, Alicia attended Wright State University for Acting, and in the NY industry, she began specializing in movement, choreography, and staged violence. She is a certified teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors and has fight directed the past 15 years in New York City. She is also a member of Vixens En Grade, an all-female fight troupe, touring with the company for eight years.Her professional experience as an actor, fight choreographer, and stunt performer, eventually led her towards the choreography and coordination of romantic, sexual, and highly suggestive scenes. Seeing an unfilled need, in 2015 Alicia co-founded the not-for-profit Intimacy Directors International with the progenitor of the phrase ‘intimacy choreographer,’ Tonia Sina. Together, they created an organization to research and promote the role of intimacy professionals in tv, film, and theater. She and her colleagues worked with directors, choreographers, psychologists, social workers, trauma experts, and other professionals to research and codify a system of addressing the performance of nudity, simulated sex, and intimacy. Mentioned in this episode:Intimacy Directors and CoordinatorsHBOWright State UniversityBiloxi BluesNineCloserSociety of American Fight DirectorsThe Fight MasterWe Real Cool by Bell HooksTonia SinaSiobhan RichardsonAMDAIntimacy WorkshopsSteppenwolf TheatreSupport the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts.  To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email-  [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: (Intro) Jack Burmeister, (Outro) https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister