MY EXPERIENCE

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

INTIMACy & fight direction for theatre

UPCOMING: Streetcar Named Desire

Wandering Bark Theatre Company / Provo, UT / April - May 2026

UPCOMING: Arsenic and Old Lace

Empress Theatre / Magna, UT / April 2026

She Kills Monsters

Mad King Productions / Salt Lake City, UT / February - March 2026

Emma

West Valley Arts / West Valley, UT / February 2026

Just Add Water

Plan B Theatre Company / Salt Lake City, UT / September 2025

Assigned Green at Birth, Marked Female at Birth

ThreePenny Theatre Company / Salt Lake City, UT / September 2025

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

West Valley Arts / West Valley, UT / August 2025

Be Here Now

Pygmalion Theatre Company / Salt Lake City, UT / May 2025

Dogfight

Sentinel Theater Company / American Fork, UT / April 2025

Proof

Mad King Productions / Salt Lake City, UT / February - March 2025

The Play That Goes Wrong

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

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

Legally Blond

West Valley Arts / West Valley City, UT / August 2024

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

The Importance of Being Earnest

Corral de la Cruz / Salt Lake City, UT / Apr 2024

Bitter Lemon

Plan B Theatre Co / Salt Lake City, UT / April 2024

Shakespeare in Love

West Valley Arts / West Valley City, UT / April 2024

Balthazar

Plan B Theatre Co / Salt Lake City, UT / February 2024

A Tale of Two Cities

West Valley Arts / West Valley City, UT / February 2024

The Spicy Shakespeare Soiree

Mad King Productions / Salt Lake City, UT / February 2024

Reborning

JAM Collective /Salt Lake City, UT / January 2024

West Side Story

West Valley Arts / West Valley, UT / August 2023

Puffs

West Valley Performing Arts / West Valley, UT / June 2023

Taming of the Shrew

Mad King Productions / Salt Lake City, UT / Summer 2023

Cabaret

Daydreamer Theatre / Salt Lake City, UT / June 2023

Into the Woods

West Valley Performing Arts / West Valley, UT / April 2023

Fun Home

Wasatch Theatre / Salt Lake City, UT / April 2023

God of Carnage

Westminster College / Salt Lake City / March 2023

Go Home Come Back

Plan-B Theatre Co / Salt Lake City, UT / March 2023

Footloose Jr

Draper Park Middle School / Draper, UT / Feb 2023

The Final Act

Wasatch Theatre Company / Salt Lake City / Feb 2023

Bright Star

Fremont High School / Ogden, UT / Feb 2023

Clue

West Valley Arts / West Valley, UT / Jan 2023

My Brother Was a Vampire

Plan-B Theatre Co / Salt Lake City, UT / October 2022

Measure for Measure

New World Shakespeare Co / Salt Lake City / October 2022

Cartoon

(Fight Choreography)

Westminster College / Salt Lake City / October 2022

Much Ado About Nothing

Grassroots Shakespeare Co / Salt Lake City, UT / July 2022

As You Like It

Mad King Productions / Salt Lake City, UT / Jul 2022

Popsicle Winter

Wasatch Theatre Page-to-Stage Festival / Salt Lake City, UT / Apr 2022

The Birthday Party

(intimacy and fight choreography)

Westminster College / Salt Lake City, UT / Oct 2021

Little Happy Secrets

Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival / Salt Lake City, UT / Jul 2021

Footloose!

(intimacy and fight choreography)

West Valley Arts / Salt Lake City, UT / Jul 2021

Much Ado About Nothing

Mad King Productions / Salt Lake City, UT / Jun 2021

Constellations

(with COVID precautions)
Utah Valley University TAG Spotlight Play Series / Orem, UT / March 2021

Moulin Rouge
BYU Mask Club / Provo, UT / February 2020

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INTIMACY COORDINATION for film/television

Circles

Independent Feature / 2025 / unknown release

The Edge of Normal

(Mental Health Coordination)

Independent feature / 2025 / unknown release

Our Dreams, Your Nightmares

Independent short / filmed 2024 / unknown release

Red and Black

Independent Feature / filmed 2024 / unknown release

The Witch of Wander Lane

Zepstone Media / filmed 2024 / unknown release

Independent short / filmed 2024 / currently in festival circuit

The Wilderness

Independent Feature / filmed 2023 / Released October 2025

A Tree Fell in the Woods

Independent Feature / filmed 2023 / Released June 2025

Teenage Wasteland

Student film / March 2023

INTIMACY & CONSENT CONSULTATIONS

A Chorus Line

West Valley Arts / West Valley, UT / April - May 2025

The Lightning Thief

West Valley Arts / West Valley City, UT / June 2024

The Fossil Record

An Other Theater Company / Provo, UT / Jan 2022

The Man on the Kerb, one-act

BYU-Idaho / Rexburg, ID / Nov 2021

She Kills Monsters, Zoom production

Grandview High School / Grandview, MO / Oct 2020

Improvables Comedy Improv Troupe

Bountiful, UT / Feb 2020

workshops, APPEARANCES & PUBLICATIONS

Note: Many theatre productions also include an consent workshop as part of their contract for me to do intimacy direction. Those are not listed here.

UPCOMING:

Workshop Presenter

"How To Approach Intimacy in Acting"

Grand Junction Casting

February 2026

Workshop presenter

"Activism Through Consent-Forward Practices"

Wasatch Theatre Company Page to Stage Theatre & Justice Festival

August 2025

Panelist

"Best Practices in Intimacy Coordination"

Zepstone Arts Festival

September 2024

Workshop presenter

Theatre Faculty Training

Utah Valley University

August 2024

Podcast Guest

Do Care Podcast

"Intimacy Coordination With Liz Whittaker"

March 2024

Interview Guest

"Influential Women in the Arts"

Sam Baird Creative Consulting

March 2024