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
UPCOMING: Legally Blond
West Valley Arts / West Valley City, UT / August 2024
UPCOMING: The Lightning Thief
West Valley Arts / West Valley City, UT / June 2024
UPCOMING: Shakespeare in Love
West Valley Arts / West Valley City, UT / April 2024
UPCOMING: Bitter Lemon
Plan B Theatre Co / Salt Lake City, UT / April 2024
UPCOMING: Balthazar
Plan B Theatre Co / Salt Lake City, UT / February 2024
UPCOMING: A Tale of Two Cities
West Valley Arts / West Valley City, UT / February 2024
UPCOMING: Reborning
Salt Lake City, UT / January 2024
UPCOMING: The Spicy Shakespeare Soiree
Made King Productions / 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
INTIMACY COORDINATION for film/television
UPCOMING: Red and Black
(pre-production)
Independent Feature / est release 2026
The Wilderness
(post production)
Independent Feature / unknown release
A Tree Fell in the Woods
(post production)
Independent Feature / unknown release
Teenage Wasteland
Student film / March 2023
CONSULTATIONS
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 / October 2020
Improvables Comedy Improv Troupe
Bountiful, UT / February 2020
APPEARANCES & PUBLICATIONS
Featured article
Getting Steamy Onstage: How Intimacy is Choreographed
University of Utah Daily Chronicle, print edition
November 2023 (Vol 133, No 5)
Workshop Presenter
Consent in Directing
Utah Valley University
January 2022
Small Group Workshop Presenter
Consent in Fight Choreography
Actor's Equity Association, Central Region
December 2022
Workshop Presenter
Consent in the Classroom: Facilitating Intimacy for the Stage
UACTT (Utah Advisory Council of Theatre Teachers) Conference
July 2022
Workshop Presenter
Consent in the Classroom: Facilitating Intimacy
UACTT (Utah Advisory Council of Theatre Teachers) Conference
July 2021
Guest
Ep. 32 "What Is An Intimacy Director and Why You Need One"
May 2020
Guest post
"An Introduction to Intimacy Direction"
February 2020