WHY TO WORK
WITH A
FULLY TRAINED
INTIMACY
COORDINATOR
Intimacy Coordinators (ICs) do for sex scenes what designers do for period dramas: elevate realism through detail, structure, and hight artisty.
If your production involves nudity, simulated sex, gender based physical or sexual violence, intense physicality, or sexually charged acts and gestures, it’s essential to engage an intimacy coordinator who ensures actors feel safe and inspired, ready to fully embody their roles both emotionally and physically.
Effective collaboration demands preparation, clarity, lightness, and trust. Trained, certified, SAG-AFTRA-affiliated intimacy professionals uphold the highest artistic and industry standards, bringing a multifaceted skill set:
・dramaturgical mind
・technical expertise
・medical-grade professionalism
・advanced interpersonal skills
・choreographic fluency, and
・the emotional intelligence akin to that of a therapist
all dedicated to your storytelling.
Since 2017, intimacy has become a craft in its own right, moving beyond awkward innuendo, flat stereotypes, and (often visible even on screen) actor discomfort, making sex & physicality that’s funny, raw, messy, tender, intense, or even painful, possible, because it’s handled with profficiency and care.
INTIMACY
Georgia travels to work
from Athens, Greece
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
ABOUT INTIMACY COORDINATION
*and how we actually do it
BRING US IN EARLY
Engage your intimacy collaborator early in the process. Involve them in script meetings and casting decisions. Allow them to oversee auditions involving physical storytelling and give them rehearsing time early on. ICs are here to help you make the film you’re actually envisioning; not the awkward, flattened version you might comproprise to if your actors are unprepared, startled, or left to navigate complex scenes alone. ICs are sex-positive professionals who thrive in physical dramaturgy, and bring nuanced romance, sexuality, and vulnerability to the forfront of your project's storytelling.
PHYSICAL, ROMANTIC & SEXUAL DRAMATURGY
The intimacy coordinator studies the script to highlight scenes involving nudity, sex, physical contact, or emotional vulnerability. They brain-storm with the director to navigate the story’s needs—what’s shown, how it’s shown, and why it matters. Intimacy is treated as part of the storytelling craft, with the same level of attention and specialisation as photography, costume design, or soundscape.
CHOREOGRAPHIC SCORES & IMPOVISATION
While the intimacy dramaturgy might be still evolving, scene needs are identified accordingly: as closed set (minimal crew) scenes, choreographed or semi-improvised (such as simulated sex) scenes, fully improvised within defined boundaries, and scenes involving prosthetics, special garmens and SFX. The IC meets the actors to map boundaries, supports rehearsals, and notates choreography and looser structures. Choreographic training contributes to dramaturgical nuance and freedom within set scores, helping scenes feel real. Actors who are approached with respect show up with their whole selves, fully engaged and enthusiastic, willing to take larger creative risks as crusial collaborators of the project.
*REHEARSAL SPACE
Georgia hosts intimacy rehearsals at her studio in central Athens, COCHLEA studia. COCHLEA studia is a stunning 200sqm working space, including 80sqm of solid oak-wood floor ideal for movement & voice work. The space is not wheel-chair accessible yet, and hosts three cats, Winnie, Sara & Marrie. It is placed 13min from Ampelokipi subway station, and 7min from Lycabettus forest hill. Check the location on google-maps here.
CONSENT MEDIATION & LOADED CONTENT
As scenes continue to evolve through filming, consent is gently and continuously reaffirmed. If a boundary is accidentally crossed, the intimacy coordinator steps in calmly and constructively to help restore clarity and trust. The goal is always to maintain a safe, collaborative space where actors can focus on the work with confidence. Your IC also supports cast and crew in navigating potentially triggering material (especially scenes involving gender-based or sexual violence) protecting collegial relationships beyond character dynamics or narrative needs. ICs are grounded in accountability & kindness. Talk to us. We’re trained to listen, and when something falls outside our scope, we’ll help direct you to the right support. Scroll down to see Georgia’s accredited training in diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging (DEIB), conflict & restorative practices, mental health first aid, and trauma-informed practices.
ON-SET KIT
The IC brings an on-set kit with extra modesty garments, mints, wipes, skin-tone tape, deodorant, and other practical items. Readiness in the small things help everyone stay focused on the work.
GEORGIA PAIZI
intimacy choreography
physical dramaturgy
consent mediation
Georgia Paizi (she/her) is a bilingual (eng/gr) intimacy coordinator working across Greek and international productions. Georgia is also an accredited actor’s trainer and hands-on practitioner and choreographer, with 20 years of experience in physical storytelling, kinesiology, and choreography. A respected member of her professional communities, she has been activly contributing to the sustainability of safe working and training spaces in fields where the body and touch are central, since 2005.
Georgia trained with the Intimacy Directors & Coordinators professionals (IDC, NY) successfully completing their certification & training courses recognised by SAG-AFTRA (2022–2025). She is the first Greek professional to specialise in intimacy coordination for film, TV, and theatre, and one of the very few working across Southern Europe and the Balkans.
Georgia's background spans movement, voice, & theatre, with studies and certifications in Greece, the UK, Europe, and the US. She has received awards & fellowships from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (ARTWORKS), Trinity Laban, and the Greek State Scholarship Fund, and was shortlisted for both a Fulbright and a British Council Alumni award. She is a member of the Alexander Technique International teachers’ association (ATI), the Skinner Releasing teachers' Network (SNR), and Women in Film & Television Greece (WIFT GR).
Georgia brings calm, kindness, and profficiency to every set, gracefully making space for risk, honesty, and better storytelling.
INTIMACY COORDINATION
projects
COMPLETED
・When the Music Stoped (2025), Dir. S Stavrou, DoP K Koukoulios, Prod. I Aidoni, Marni Films
・Major Platform Streaming Series (2025), international collaboration filmed in Greece (currently in post-production), DoP S Sarketzis, Prod. Amazon Prime, Argonauts Productions
CURRENT
・The Tropic Of The Mourning Gecko (2025), Dir. S Markoulakis, DoP G Valsamis, Prod. D Tsakaleas, Atalante Productions
・The Corpse Flower (2025) Dir. C Beku, Prod. C Beku
・Disqualified (2025), Dir. Dimitris Zouras, Prod. Isavella Alopoudi, Neda Film
UPCOMING
・Untitled Feature Film (2025), international collaboration, to be filmed in Greece
INTIMACY COORDINATION
core training
Georgia is fully trained (2022–2025) by Intimacy Directors & Coordinators (IDC), the leading SAG-AFTRA-affiliated organisation for intimacy coordination, led by pioneering intimacy, fight, and stunt coordinators Claire Warden (Dying for Sex, 2025) and Alicia Rodis (Scenes from a Marriage, 2021), who are widely recognized as foundational figures in the field for their contribution to SAG-AFTRA’s safe set protocols. Alicia & Claire have directly trained the majority of current professional ICs and professional IC trainers.
Core IC training courses by Intimacy Directors & Coordinators professionals
・IDC Certification Intensive, MN USA, 5-11 April 2025 (56h)
・IDC Accelerator Program, 2023–2024
・IDC Consent-Forward Artist Training, 2022–2023
Further workshops by Theatrical Intimacy Education (TIE)
・Industry Best Practices
・Staging Non-Consensual Conduct
・Supporting the Trans Voice in Acting & Singing
SAG-AFTRA
prerequisite trainings
・diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging
・conflict & restorative practices
・trauma informed practice & mental health first aid
Consent requires work environments that acknowledge the systemic inequalities within which we collaborate. Holding space with both lightness and responsibility demands exceptionally self-regulated professionals who embody accountability. Proficiency in the following areas is a prerequisite for recognition as a professional Intimacy Coordinator by our certifying bodies (IDC & SAG-AFTRA). Georgia has completed internationally recognized training in consent, inclusion, and trauma-informed practices, and since 2020 has been actively contributing to the establishment of an ecology of artistic labor grounded in consent as its core ethos, both locally and internationally.
・Mental Health First-Aid (9h), Wit & Reason (SAG - AFTRA)
・The Politics of Trauma (33h), Staci Haines
・TRIVE LDN trauma-informed practice (8h), Nicola Lester Trauma Consultancy (Mayor of London)
・Compassion Fatigue Training (3h), EF Learning (NHS)
・Anti-Harassment, Anti-Sexual Harassment, Anti-Bullying, Safeguarding (6h), Wit & Reason (SAG - AFTRA), BROOK, Screen Skills
・Bystander Intervention & Harm Disrupting (4,5h), Wit & Reason (SAG - AFTRA), Safe to Create, BROOK, EDUcare, VinciWorks
・Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (49h), VinciWorks, EDUcare, ELM, Safe & Equal
・Gender Inclusion, Sexual Identity, Relationship & Sex Education (38h), Trans Care BC, BROOK, Institute for Sex Positive Therapy
・Allyship & Advocacy (7h), VinciWorks, CCHE, Jimanekia Eborn
・Conflict Resolution (25h), Kai Cheng Thom (The Embodiment Lab)
・Racial Restorative Justice (4h), Amplify Restorative Justice
PRESS & MEDIA
on intimacy coordination
・OffScreen NovaCinema podcast, P Lykourgou, 21.03.2025
・GNTV ERT Morning Show, F Sergoulopoulos & J Melita, 26.02.2025
・Cultural Magazino FM105.5, M Thanassoulia, 13.01.2025
・WIFT GR, M Kolonia, 01.12.2024
・Monopoli.gr, A Routsi, 28.11.2024
・AthensVoice, Ch Galanopoulou, 22.11.2024
MOVEMENT DIRECTION
background work
Choreographer & Artistic Director
COCHLEA studia, Athens 2017 - ongoing
cochleares.com/cochleaprojects
Head of Training
Guts | Eyes | Bones | Boundaries (GEBB), Athens 2020 - 2025
Movement Teacher (freelancing)
performing arts professionals workshops & courses venues, conservatories, academic courses
Athens, London, Berlin 2017 - 2022*
*schools, venues, festivals
・COCHLEA studia, Athens 2017 - ongoing
・WIFTgr 50/50 festival, Athens 2024
・Judith Leibowitz Scholarship Fund, NY/online 2024
・SommerTanz TanzFabrik Berlin, Berlin 2019
・Akropoditi DanceFest, Syros 2019
・Attico School of Ancient Drama, Elefsina 2019
・Music Village, Pelion 2018
・DOCK11, Berlin 2018
・Chisenhale Dance Space, London 2014 - 2018
・Greek Dance-Therapist guild professional training, Athens 2022
・PhonoQuest, Epidaurous 2022
・Municipal Theater of Patras Drama School, Patras 2020 - 2021
・DILOS theater school, Athens 2017 - 2023
・Filippos Nakas Conservatory, Athens 2018
・Modern Times Drama School, Athens 2018 - 2019
・Maro Marmarinou Professional Dance School, Athens 2017
・Theater Studies Department, UoP, Nafplio 2020
・Performing & Digital Arts Department, UoP, Nafplio 2020
・Dance Departments, Stockholm University of the Arts 2020
・Department of Theater, AUTh, Thessaloniki 2019
MOVEMENT DIRECTION
background research & training
・Post-Pandemic Intersectional Voice & Breath Practices for the Performing Arts. Self-directed reseach incl. Buteyko, Fitzmaurice, BMC, Dymon, Myers, Kinesiology Taping, Angelique Willkie & other practices, Athens 2020–22.
・Joan Skinner Releasing Technique, SRN Teacher Training, Glasgow cohort 2023–24.
・Foundation Course Anatomy & Physiology, CCST, London 2016.
・Alexander Technique, LCATT/STAT Teacher Training, London 2013–17.
・MA Creative Practice: Dance Professional Practice, Trinity Laban CMD, London 2014–16.
・MA Cultural Studies & Spatial Design, NTUA 2009–12.
・BA Theatre Studies, major in dramaturgy - minors in choreography & costume UoP 2003–9.
