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rates

My time and training are both valuable. Rates are based on industry standards for fight choreographers, movement choreographers, and other intimacy professionals. Rates vary depending on the project, but I've provided the following estimates to help you budget. 

 

I do not wish my rates to be prohibitive. All rates are negotiable--please contact me to inquire (lizwhittakeremail@gmail.com)

Intimacy direction/coordination includes: 

  • Communication with director, actors, and other members of the creative team

  • Use of intimacy kit as needed (hygiene items, barriers, modesty garments) 

  • Assistance with blocking and choreography

  • Advocacy, mental health coordination, and conflict mediation for entire production as needed

  • THEATRE: Attendance at theatre rehearsals as determined by production needs

  • THEATRE: Assistance with writing content guide if desired

  • FILM/TV: Assistance with creating riders

  • FILM/TV: Presence on set during filming of intimate scenes

intimacy direction for theatre: COMMUNITY, SEMI-professional
& educational

LORT/AEA rates available upon request

Tiered flat rate per project 

Tiers are determined by averaging the following 3 criteria: 

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Tier 1: $100 - $300

 

Tier 2: $300 - $500

Tier 3: $500 - $750

Tier 4: $750 - $1,125

Tier 5: $1,125 - $1,500

Tier 6: $1,500 - $2,000

Tier 7: $2,000 - $2,500

If work takes place more than 75 miles from Orem, Utah, please provide lodging, travel, and per diem.

intimacy CONSULTATION

This option is for when a project has sensitive material and you'd like some expertise on how to navigate it, or would like my training to be available as a resource, but it doesn't require assistance with blocking/choreography. (Can also be done remotely.)

Includes: 

  • Communication with director, actors, and other members of the creative team

  • Being available as a resource for the entire production team

  • Assistance with writing content guide if desired

  • Advocacy, mental health coordination, and conflict mediation for entire production as needed

Does NOT include attendance at rehearsals.

 

Flat fee of $150 - $300

 

With additional consent workshop for cast and/or crew

$200 - $350  

intimacy coordination for film / television

NOTE: Intimacy coordinators are now part of SAG-AFTRA on AMPTP projects. I am NOT a member of SAG-AFTRA at this time.

Please include 1 day of prep per intimate scene (same as day rate) 

Kit fee = $50/day

SAG/AMPTP Projects

$1175 daily rate

(regardless of project size/budget) 

Non-SAG Feature or Television (Budget = $2,000,000 or more)

$1175 daily rate

 

Non-SAG Low Budget ($700,00 - $2,000,000)

$810 daily rate

 

Non-SAG Moderate Low Budget ($300,000 - $700,000)

$500 daily rate

 

Non-SAG Ultra Low Budget ($300,000 or less) 

$350 daily rate

Verticals

$350 daily rate

 

Student films

$50-$100 daily rate (negotiable) 

 

Commercials, Industrials, Documentaries 

$610 daily rate (negotiable based on budget) 

If work takes place more than 75 miles from Orem, Utah, please provide lodging, travel, and per diem.

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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