When intimacy is storytelling.
An intimacy professional maintains union-mandated working standards while supporting the actor’s creative process and the director’s artistic vision, resulting in intimate storytelling rooted in truth and personal safety.
On set and on stage, Maria works with actors one-on-one through character prep, identifying boundaries, and choreographing moments of intimacy. She facilitates conversations between actors and director to maintain boundaries and artistic vision, and collaborates with relevant departments to identify necessary intimacy garments and barriers in scenes with actual and implied nudity and simulated sex. Maria choreographs scenes with implied nudity, simulated sex, and advises productions on best practices, closed set protocol, and nudity/intimacy riders.
In the classroom, Maria teaches student actors the language around consent, establishing boundaries, and choreographing moments of intense conflict and sexuality.
Maria is an LGBTQIA+ and DEI advocate, consent educator, and is certified in Mental Health First Aid and bystander intervention.
Selected Intimacy Credits
Film
| The Unpredictable Bedroom | Dir. Ethan Pann | Independent |
| Terrifier 3 | Dir. Damien Leone | Bloody Disgusting |
| An Act of Love | Dir. Stephan Stelman | Independent |
| Murderous | Dir. Neil LaBute | Contemptible Ent |
| The Week After | Dir. Amanda Fuller | Independent |
| A Kiss to the City | Dir. Mark Famiglietti | Independent |
Theatre
| The Whole Sky All Diamonds | Dir. Jack Dentinger | Loft Story |
| Cock | Dir. Christina Shea-Wright | East Village Basement |
| The Seagull | Dir. Grant Kretchik | Pace University |
| Bernhardt/Hamlet | Dir. L.A. Mars | Studio Theater |
| Picnic | Dir. Lester Shane | Pace University |
| Dance Nation | Dir. Karim Muasher | Pace University |
| Travesties | Dir. LA Mars | Nutley Little Theater |
| Firehawks (World Premiere) | Dir. Jessi D. Fill | Pace University |
| Spring Awakening | Dir. Will Detlefsen | Pace University |