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MY EXPERIENCE

For details on my acting & directing experience, visit www.lizwhittaker.com

INTIMACy & fight direction for theatre

UPCOMING: The Play That Goes Wrong

West Valley Arts / West Valley City, UT / February-March 2025

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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

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Save the Cow

Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival / Salt Lake 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 / filmed 2024 / unknown release

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Red and Black

(currently filming)

Independent Feature / filmed 2024 / est release 2026

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The Witch of Wander Lane

(currently filming) 

Zepstone Media / filmed 2024 / unknown release 

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Ed

(post-production)

Independent short / filmed 2024 / unknown release

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The Wilderness

(post production) 

Independent Feature / filmed 2023 / unknown release

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A Tree Fell in the Woods

(post production) 

Independent Feature / filmed 2023 / 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

Panelist 

"Best Practices in Intimacy Coordination" 

Zepstone Arts Festival 

September 2024

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Workshop presenter

Theatre Faculty Training

Utah Valley University

August 2024

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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" 

Pepperfox podcast

May 2020​

 

Guest post

"An Introduction to Intimacy Direction"

Josh Is An Actor website

February 2020

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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