MY EXPERIENCE
For details on my acting & directing experience, visit www.lizwhittaker.com
INTIMACy & fight direction for theatre
UPCOMING: Jekyll & Hyde
West Valley Arts / West Valley City, UT / October 2024
Freaks of the Cosmic Circus
Wasatch Theater Company / Salt Lake City, UT / August 2024
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Legally Blond
West Valley Arts / West Valley City, UT / August 2024
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Mad King Productions / Salt Lake City, UT / Jun 2024
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Corral de la Cruz / Salt Lake City, UT / Apr 2024
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Bitter Lemon
Plan B Theatre Co / Salt Lake City, UT / April 2024
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Shakespeare in Love
West Valley Arts / West Valley City, UT / April 2024
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Balthazar
Plan B Theatre Co / Salt Lake City, UT / February 2024
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A Tale of Two Cities
West Valley Arts / West Valley City, UT / February 2024
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The Spicy Shakespeare Soiree
Mad King Productions / Salt Lake City, UT / February 2024
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Reborning
JAM Collective /Salt Lake City, UT / January 2024
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West Side Story
West Valley Arts / West Valley, UT / August 2023
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Puffs
West Valley Performing Arts / West Valley, UT / June 2023
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Taming of the Shrew
Mad King Productions / Salt Lake City, UT / Summer 2023
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Cabaret
Daydreamer Theatre / Salt Lake City, UT / June 2023
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Into the Woods
West Valley Performing Arts / West Valley, UT / April 2023
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Fun Home
Wasatch Theatre / Salt Lake City, UT / April 2023
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God of Carnage
Westminster College / Salt Lake City / March 2023
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Go Home Come Back
Plan-B Theatre Co / Salt Lake City, UT / March 2023
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Footloose Jr
Draper Park Middle School / Draper, UT / Feb 2023
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The Final Act
Wasatch Theatre Company / Salt Lake City / Feb 2023
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Bright Star
Fremont High School / Ogden, UT / Feb 2023
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Clue
West Valley Arts / West Valley, UT / Jan 2023
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My Brother Was a Vampire
Plan-B Theatre Co / Salt Lake City, UT / October 2022
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Measure for Measure
New World Shakespeare Co / Salt Lake City / October 2022
Cartoon
(Fight Choreography)
Westminster College / Salt Lake City / October 2022
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Much Ado About Nothing
Grassroots Shakespeare Co / Salt Lake City, UT / July 2022
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As You Like It
Mad King Productions / Salt Lake City, UT / Jul 2022
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Popsicle Winter
Wasatch Theatre Page-to-Stage Festival / Salt Lake City, UT / Apr 2022
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The Birthday Party
(intimacy and fight choreography)
Westminster College / Salt Lake City, UT / Oct 2021
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Little Happy Secrets
Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival / Salt Lake City, UT / Jul 2021
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Footloose!
(intimacy and fight choreography)
West Valley Arts / Salt Lake City, UT / Jul 2021
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Much Ado About Nothing
Mad King Productions / Salt Lake City, UT / Jun 2021
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Constellations
(with COVID precautions)
​Utah Valley University TAG Spotlight Play Series / Orem, UT / March 2021
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Moulin Rouge
BYU Mask Club / Provo, UT / February 2020
INTIMACY COORDINATION for film/television
Our Dreams, Your Nightmares
(post-production)
Independent short / unknown release
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Red and Black
(currently filming)
Independent Feature / est release 2026
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The Witch of Wander Lane
(currently filming)
Zepstone Media / unknown release
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Ed
(post-production)
Independent short / unknown release
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The Wilderness
(post production)
Independent Feature / unknown release
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A Tree Fell in the Woods
(post production)
Independent Feature / unknown release
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Teenage Wasteland
Student film / March 2023
CONSULTATIONS
The Lightning Thief
West Valley Arts / West Valley City, UT / June 2024
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The Fossil Record
An Other Theater Company / Provo, UT / Jan 2022
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The Man on the Kerb, one-act
BYU-Idaho / Rexburg, ID / Nov 2021
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She Kills Monsters, Zoom production
Grandview High School / Grandview, MO / Oct 2020
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Improvables Comedy Improv Troupe
​Bountiful, UT / Feb 2020
APPEARANCES & PUBLICATIONS
Podcast Guest
Do Care Podcast
"Intimacy Coordination With Liz Whittaker"
March 2024​
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Interview Guest
"Influential Women in the Arts"
Sam Baird Creative Consulting
March 2024
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Featured article
Getting Steamy Onstage: How Intimacy is Choreographed
University of Utah Daily Chronicle, print edition
November 2023 (Vol 133, No 5)
(Also re-published by The Salt Lake Tribune Feb 2, 2024)
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Workshop Presenter
Consent in Directing
Utah Valley University
January 2022
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Small Group Workshop Presenter
Consent in Fight Choreography
Actor's Equity Association, Central Region
December 2022
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Workshop Presenter
Consent in the Classroom: Facilitating Intimacy for the Stage
UACTT (Utah Advisory Council of Theatre Teachers) Conference
July 2022
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Workshop Presenter
Consent in the Classroom: Facilitating Intimacy
UACTT (Utah Advisory Council of Theatre Teachers) Conference
July 2021
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Podcast Guest
Ep. 32 "What Is An Intimacy Director and Why You Need One"
May 2020​
Guest post
"An Introduction to Intimacy Direction"
February 2020