Qualifications, Training, and Education

What does it mean to be qualified? Especially in newer disciplines like intimacy, it can be challenging to make sure the professional you’re bringing in has the qualifications you want and need. Certification is only the tip of the iceberg.

Below is a list of relevant learning I’ve completed across disciplines & subjects. Wherever possible, links are included for full transparency.

PLEASE NOTE: Qualifications listed here do not fully reflect the extent of my work, research, knowledge, and lived experiences. If you have questions, please feel free to contact me.

Intimacy-specific Training

  • Certified Intimacy Director and Intimacy Coordinator with IDC

  • Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC):

  • Intimacy Directors International:

    • Apprentice (May 2019 - end of IDI)

    • International Intimacy Choreographers Intensive (IDI, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center) 8 days

      • Instructors: Tonia Sina Campanella, Alicia Rodis, Jessica Steinrock, Sasha Smith

    • International Intimacy Choreographers Intensive (IDI, Toronto) 9 days

      • Instructors: Tonia Sina Campanella, Claire Warden, Siobhan Richardson, Alicia Rodis

  • Theatrical Intimacy Education:

    • Studio Techniques, Casting, and Policy (6 hours)

    • Best Practices Workshop (6 hours)

    • Foundations in Race, Intimacy, & Consent (2 hours)

    • Refresher: Modesty Garments, Barriers, and Masking (3 hours)

    • Race and Choreography (2 hours)

  • Intimacy Coordinators of Color:

    • Voicing Sex: Building Intimacy in the Voice (3 hours)

  • Intimacy for the Stage for Actors (Siobhan Richardson, Calgary)

  • Intimacy for the Stage for Directors & Choreographers (Siobhan Richardson, Calgary)

  • Workshop TA:

Fight-specific Training

Fight Training (who I’ve trained with, and what)

  • Jean-Pierre Fournier: Fencing, unarmed, single sword, sword tricks, rapier & dagger (FDC cert)

  • Siobhan Richardson: Longsword (FDC cert), action intimacy, advanced longsword

  • Todd Campbell: Smallsword (FDC cert)

  • Karl Sine: Rapier & dagger (FDC cert)

  • David McCormick: Unarmed martial arts (FDC cert)

  • Patrick Howarth: Quarterstaff, unarmed, single sword, rapier & dagger (FDC cert)

  • Jonathan Hawley-Purvis: Sabre, knife

  • Casey Hudecki: Knife

  • Chance Heck: Taekwondo

  • Carrie Thiel & Michelle Ladd: Motion capture

  • Ruth Cooper-Brown: Torture, restraints & bonds

  • John Lennox: Groundfighting

  • Kristoffer Jorgensen: Viking longaxe

  • Jeff McKracken: Wire work, fighting for film

  • Daniel Ford Beavis: Fighting for film, bottle breaking, zombie fighting, single sword

  • Kevin McCurdy: Knaps, groundfighting & grappling, smallsword, action intimacy, pain and contact hits

  • Spencer Humm: Bullwhip, systema and natural combat

  • Adrian Young: Gun disarms

  • Ian Rose: Rapier & cloak, smallsword, single sword

  • Thomas Potter: Filming tactical teams

  • Sveta Chen: Wushu broadsword

  • Hunter Smith: Motion capture for animals and archetypes

  • Rachel Flesher: Contact hits

  • Jess Finley: 15th century sword & buckler

  • Kenin Inouye: Shooting action and previz, tactical rifle for stage and screen

  • Sunny Vinsavich: Stunt wrecks

  • Roberto Martínez-Loyo: Macuahuitl (Aztec war club)

  • Dave Boushey: Fighting for film

  • Bryce Bermingham: Single sword

  • Lyndall Grant: Mocap and pcap techniques

  • Claire Llewellyn: Grabs, drags, and hits: contact work

  • Mallory Shear and Nick Rooswinkel: Intro to pro-wrestling

  • Oula Kitti: Acrobatics and lifts

Selected Supportive Training

(updated list in progress)

Courses and Workshops

Supportive Certifications

Formal Education and Associations