Intimacy Coordinator

The Intimacy Coordinator is a specialist role for productions including scenes involving intimacy, simulated sex, or nudity. Ensures performer consent, on-set safety, and choreography of intimacy scenes. Has become an industry-standard requirement on productions with such content following the post-2017 movement and codified in the Safe to Create + Minding Creative Minds framework.

What the role does

• Coordinates consent + boundary discussions with performers before any intimate scene
• Choreographs intimacy + simulated sex in collaboration with director + performers
• Manages closed-set protocols during intimate scene shooting
• Provides modesty equipment + privacy materials
• Acts as the liaison between performers and the production's senior team on consent matters
• Maintains documentation of consent + agreed boundaries

Position

Reports to director + producer. Independent advocacy on behalf of performers.

Career progression

Specialist career — often reached from theatre / movement / choreography backgrounds + intimacy-coordinator certification training.

Related framework

• Safe to Create + Minding Creative Minds — operates within this framework
• Industry Code of Conduct — intimacy coordinator engagement evidences code adherence