I highly recommend these books for Staged Intimacy Professionals, Actors, Directors, Acting/Theatre Teachers, Stage Managers, and Producers to read. These books can help people in these roles familiarize themselves with the role of Staged Intimacy - Intimacy Director or Intimacy Coordinator. These books also great for Staged Intimacy Profesionals for their own professional developement.
These books are NOT a substitute for formal training. Training is important. Reading these books do support your journey training as an Intimacy Professional. Below are a list of books I recommend that are relate directly to Stage Intimacy for both theatre and film.
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This is the very first book written by co-founder of Theatrical Intimacy Education. It's a great book for beginnger Intimacy Professionals, Acting/Theatre Teachers, Directors, Stage Managers, and even Actors.
It gives the basics of Staging Intimacy. It can help you learn deloaded and desexualized language, basic ingrediants, and pre-production, production, and post-production notes. It also share some basic ingrediants for staging and choreographing moments of intimacy on stage and screen.
This is an excellent resource for Actors, Acting/ Theatre Teachers, Directors, and Producers. This book is a series of essays from theatre/intimacy professionals sharing their perspective on intimacy through the lense of race, gender, sexuality, etc. and the impacts it can have on Actors.
I highly recommend this book along with Staging Sex as one of the first books you read (and reread) as part of your Intimacy Professional experience.