Participants begin with a gentle ensemble warm-up focused on awareness and connection, followed by an introduction to the role of the intimacy director and key concepts of consent, communication, and professional boundaries. Through structured exercises, participants will practice tools such as pause/reset techniques, clear openings and closings, and developing a shared language for staging touch and high-stakes relationships.

The workshop emphasizes boundary-setting, navigating varying intensities of contact, and advocating for oneself within a collaborative rehearsal space.

This workshop does not certify participants as Intimacy Directors. Instead, it provides artists with tools for physical storytelling while supporting the creation of trauma-informed, braver, and safer spaces for stage work.

Meaghen Quinn is an Actor, Intimacy Director, Movement Coach, and Drama Professor currently living in Windsor, Ontario Canada.  She holds an M.F.A. in Acting from Pennsylvania State University and a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from the University of Windsor. Meaghen joined the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium as an Associate teacher in 2022, is working on her third year of the Feldenkrais Institute of Ann Arbor’s practitioner program, and recently completed achieved her certification in Intimacy Direction under IDC and mentor Claire Warden (First ID on Broadway).

Meaghen seeks out collaborative environments and is drawn to historical and fantastical worlds that allow for heighten moments of physical storytelling.