In Conversation with world-leading Intimacy Professionals Alicia Rodis and Claire Warden and director Neil Sharma

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  Alicia Rodis

  Alicia Rodis pioneered the role of intimacy coordinator in the United States. She serves as the intimacy coordinator for HBO studios, consulting on their policies and protocols as well as training and vetting the IC's working on HBO sets. She is the Creative Director at Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC) which specializes in training performers and industry professionals to better approach intimate scenes, as well as trains and certifies intimacy coordinators for film and intimacy directors and choreographers for theatre. After being hired by The Deuce on HBO, Alicia worked with long-time producer Nina Noble to craft a better system for intimacy on a major television series. A system that is now becoming the industry standard. Alicia has intimacy coordinated on The Deuce (S2, S3), Watchmen, Plot Against America, Crashing (S3), High Maintenance (S4), I Know This Much Is True, And Just Like That, and Lovecraft Country as well as trained the coordinators on Euphoria, Succession and many others. 
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  Claire Warden

  Claire Warden is an intimacy director and coordinator, who has worked in theatre, TV and film across America and the UK. She is the Director of Advanced Training at Intimacy Director and Coordinators (IDC), which specializes in training performers and industry professionals to better approach intimate scenes, as well as training and certifying intimacy coordinators for film and intimacy directors for theatre. She is also part of the collaboration team that advised SAG-AFTRA on their effort to standardize, codify and implement guidelines for on-set intimacy coordinators. Claire works as an intimacy coordinator on television networks, including HBO, Hulu, Amazon and Showtime, as well major motion picture studios such as Sony and 20th Century Fox. Claire made history as the first intimacy director on Broadway with Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and also worked as intimacy director on the Broadway productions of Slave Play, The Inheritance, Jagged Little Pill and Company, among others.
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  Neil Sharma

  Mentored by the likes of Oscar winning auteur Taika Waititi and AACTA Award winner Jeffrey Walker, Neil’s directing credits include the forthcoming reboot of Heartbreak High (Netflix), The Unlisted (Netflix), APPETITE (SBS), Born to Spy (ABC/Aquarius Films) and splinter unit for Lambs Of God (Foxtel/Showtime). He cut his teeth in the film industry as an assistant director on productions such as Marvel’s Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings, Mortal Kombat, Picnic At Hanging Rock and The Dressmaker to name a few. Other credits include Thor: Love And Thunder, Lion, The Cry, The Whistle Blower Love Child, Dance Academy, Janet King, Childhood’s End, House Husbands. His extensive on-set experience and invaluable mentorships have put Neil in the perfect position to conceptualise and navigate a film production.