I am on a mission to unleash performance artists and educators to interrogate current practices, and arm them with the tools that they need in order to enact change.

I utilize consent-based approaches to fuel freedom of exploration in creative processes; to activate agency in storytelling; and to advocate for ethical and efficient practices in our changing industries. I craft physical storytelling for stages, screens, and interactive experiences alike. And I create community-centered performance projects to facilitate dialogue related to the world in which we live and create.

A scene from UNCLE VANYA at Pasadena Playhouse: PC Jeff Lorch

Intimacy Coordinator and Choreographer

I support artistic processes in theatre, dance, opera, improv, and film with ethical and effective artistic techniques for crafting performances of heightened intimacy. I create consent-based practices that fuel physical storytelling.

An image of an audience member interacting with an actor from "Virtue of Reality" at University of Colorado Boulder

Immersive Artist

I craft and perform in immersive theatre, themed entertainment, audience-engaged performance, historical re-enactment, and larp. I develop diegetic consent mechanics for gamified performance in consultation with immersive artists and larp creators.

Recent Productions

  • A Little Night Music (2023): Intimacy Choreographer.

    directed by David Lee at Pasadena Playhouse

  • Women of Zalongo (2023): Intimacy Choreographer.

    an NEA grant-funded project directed by Kari Hayter at Santa Monica Playhouse

  • The Inheritance (2022): Intimacy Choreographer.

    directed by Mike Donahue at Geffen Playhouse

  • Fefu and Her Friends (2023): Director and Intimacy Choreographer.

    an immersive production at the Golleher Alumni House

  • Project Ascension (2022): Consent Consultant and Performer.

    a pervasive game produced by Sinking Ship Creations in NYC.

Notes from the Field: An IC’s Perspective

  • Creating with Consent–As Pedagogy

    Consent as Key to Effective Collaboration

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  • Agency in Crafting 'Night Music'

    The Impact of Intimacy Choreography

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  • Uncle Vanya:

    Culturally Conscious Choreography

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  • Consent for K12 Classrooms

    Training Teachers in CA

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  • Fighting For Change Together

    Launching the Artists Safety Alliance

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  • A New Concourse

    For Consent-Based Research

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  • Welcome to Intimacy Camp:

    TIE’s Educator Advoate Program

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  • ACLU 100 National Tour

    Undocumonologues

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Community Engaged Performance Projects

  • "Binary Trappings: an Immersive Experience" (2023), produced in partnership with the CSUF Alumni Association, the Department of Theatre & Dance, and the LGBTQ+ Student Support Center

  • "Performing Arts as Emancipatory Practice" at the first annual Hispanic Theatre Festival (2022), partnership with El Grupo de Teatro en Español and CSU Fullerton's College of the Humanities

  • UndocuAmerica (2019) produced in partnership with the ACLU's National 100 Tour, Colorado Immigration Rights Coalition, and Motus Theater

  • Cinco Decimas (2018), produced in partnership with the Community College of Denver Foundation and Su Teatro

  • Playback: A Critical Conversations Project (2018–20), produced in partnership with the North Folk Valley Creative Coalition

  • Campus Assault: It Happens Here (2017–18), produced in partnership with The Blue Bench, The Phoenix Center at Auraria, the University of Colorado Denver, and the Community College of Denver

  • Our History Shapes Our Future (2018), produced in partnership with playwright Karen Zacarias and Su Teatro

  • The One Voice Project (2013–14), created in partnership with Denver Center for the Performing Arts and the Newman Center for Performing Arts

  • Consent Education: Onstage and in Sex Ed (2019–20), produced in partnership with Denver Public School District's CityWide Program and University of Colorado Boulder's Office of Engagement

  • Rush Hour: RACEing Across Campus (2019), produced in partnership with University of Colorado's Diversity and inclusion Summit

I live and work with a focus on questioning our inherited practices and forging new paths forward.

Amanda Rose Villarreal, PhD.