'Is it OK for me to touch you here?': the people making rehearsal rooms safe

As an ‘intimacy coordinator’, Ita O’Brien coaches stage and screen productions through the protocols of contact between actors

In the past year, Ita O’Brien’s job has become part of a global conversation. An “intimacy coordinator” for stage and screen, based in the UK, her role is to coach production companies through the protocols of touch and contact between actors in explicit scenes.

And in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein allegations and the broader MeToo movement, that role has a newfound urgency.

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