Women's Theatre Festival

Founded in 2017, Theatrical Intimacy Education is a consulting group specializing in researching, developing, and teaching best practices for staging theatrical intimacy. Theatrical Intimacy Education empowers artists with the tools to ethically, efficiently, and effectively stage intimacy, nudity, and sexual violence. We train the whole company, department, or ensemble in TIE Best Practices so that you aren’t on your own when the choreographer goes home. This is about culture change, not just choreography. We believe that staging theatrical intimacy should be Ethical, Efficient, and Effective and we want to train you to do it.

Open to any directors, educators, stage managers, actors, producers, or choreographers who want to learn more about staging theatrical intimacy ethically, efficiently, and effectively.

Available only as an add-on to a full Festival pass
$50 additional fee

Founded in 2017, Theatrical Intimacy Education is a consulting group specializing in researching, developing, and teaching best practices for staging theatrical intimacy. Theatrical Intimacy Education empowers artists with the tools to ethically, efficiently, and effectively stage intimacy, nudity, and sexual violence. We train the whole company, department, or ensemble in TIE Best Practices so that you aren’t on your own when the choreographer goes home. This is about culture change, not just choreography. We believe that staging theatrical intimacy should be Ethical, Efficient, and Effective and we want to train you to do it.

Open to any directors, educators, stage managers, actors, producers, or choreographers who want to learn more about staging theatrical intimacy ethically, efficiently, and effectively.

Available only as an add-on to a full Festival pass
$50 additional fee

What do Blanche DuBois, Katniss Everdeen, Hamlet, Sula Peace, and Michael Corleone all have in common? They are all great characters. Whether you are a playwright, screenwriter, novelist or television writer, the ability to create compelling, unforgettable characters is key. Ultimately, it is the recognizable yet surprising and unique character that draws in readers and audience members. By combining in-class-exercises, lectures, reading and writing assignments, learn how to create detailed, compelling characters.

You'll walk away with...

• The ability to create detailed, compelling characters
• An understanding of how characters draw in readers and audience members and lead them forward through the story

Ideal for...

• Playwrights, screenwriters, novelists, and television writers
• Writers of all levels