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Hello!

I’m glad you found me! I’m a certified intimacy director living and working in Utah. I serve as both a choreographer and an advocate, and work with the creative team and actors to choreograph powerful stories involving intimacy, nudity, violence/stage combat, and/or vulnerable scenes, while still respecting boundaries. 

 

I am a highly collaborative theatre artist, who works to empower both actors and the rest of the creative team to do their best and bravest work.

 

I have 20+ years of experience as an actor, director, choreographer, sound designer, writer, and teaching artist, and I bring all of these things with me into my work. (You can read more about my theatre experience here, or check out my IMDB page.) 

 

Everything I do is deeply rooted in physical storytelling, dramaturgy and script analysis, and allowing for the magic of discovery and experimentation within actor boundaries. 

 

I have over 200 hours of training with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, Theatrical Intimacy Education, and Intimacy Coordinators of Color, as well as training in mental health first aid, trauma stewardship, bystander intervention, conflict resolution, and anti-racism. 

 

I’ve been able to train with some of the industry’s leading figures in intimacy work, including Alicia Rodis (HBO Head of Intimacy), Lizzy Talbot (Bridgerton, The Witcher), Cha Ramos (Jagged Little Pill, Company), and Claire Warden (Drama Desk Award nominee, Slave Play).

 

As a queer and neurodivergent theatre artist, I strive to bring social justice and mental health practices into every rehearsal room, because at my core, I believe that art should never come at the cost of personhood. 

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I'd love to be a part of your project, whether it's big or small. You can find my rate card here. Check out my training and experience, visit my Instagram page, or shoot me an email at lizwhittakeremail@gmail.com!

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CURRENT & upcoming PROJECTS

While I work in various areas throughout Utah, much of my work takes place on the traditional lands of the Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), Goshute, and Eastern Shoshone peoples. White settlers seized the lands colonially known as the Salt Lake and Utah Valleys through the unratified and unfulfilled Treaty of Spanish Fork in 1865, in exchange for basic needs and rights, under the direction of Brigham Young. 

To learn some of the ways you can support members of these native peoples today (including land restoration and preservation), visit and/or donate to the following resources: 

Ute Land Trust

Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake

Utah Diné Bikéyah

Landback

Indigenous Action 

The Red Nation

 

I also recognize the stolen lives of the enslaved Africans brought to Utah by early white settlers, and acknowledge that their subjugation and forced labor helped to establish the cities that exist in this area today. 

To learn about direct action you can take for racial justice, visit and/or donate to the following resources:

The Black Menaces

The National African-American Reparations Commission

The Center for Anti-Racist Research

Resmaa Menakem and Somatic Abolitionism

 

These acknowledgments are only one step in anti-racist theater, film, and television. I strive to de-colonize my work through careful project selection, meaningful collaboration, ongoing conversation, self education, and uplifting the voices who have been marginalized by white supremacy.

© Liz Whittaker

lizwhittakeremail@gmail.com

208.709.8945

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