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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

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