Intimacy Coordination Workshop with Laura Rikard | Industry Workshop | Fall 2025
Intimacy Coordination Workshop with Laura Rikard | Industry Workshop | Fall 2025
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Instructed by Laura Rikard
Sunday, October 19th
2-4pm
ONLINE via ZOOM
Workshop with Intimacy Coordinator Laura Rikard
Laura Rikard (SAG-AFTRA/AEA) is a director, actor, teacher, intimacy choreographer/coordinator, and a founding member and head faculty of Theatre Intimacy Education. She is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of South Carolina Upstate and has worked extensively in film, television, and theatre in New York, regionally, internationally, and on national tours.
Her directing credits include Anon(ymous), The Seagull, Spring Awakening, and Romeo and Juliet. Acting credits include A Streetcar Named Desire, Macbeth, and The Last Night of Ballyhoo. As an intimacy choreographer and coordinator, she has worked with NBC Universal/Amazon and contributed to Staging Sex: Best Practices, Tools, and Techniques for Theatrical Intimacy.
With over 20 years of teaching experience, Laura’s students have gone on to train at top programs and work on Broadway, in major regional theatres, and in film and television. She has received numerous awards, including the Kennedy Center Medallion and USC Upstate’s Excellence in Teaching and Advising Award.
What you'll learn:
This workshop provides actors with tools to approach intimacy on stage and on camera safely, professionally, and with confidence. Participants will learn best practices for communication, consent, and choreography, while exploring techniques to build trust, set boundaries, and tell authentic stories through moments of closeness.
To learn more about Laura click HERE!
As always, this workshop is educational in nature. There is no promise of employment or opportunity. Laura will not be accepting headshots or resumes through the studio.
General Admission Rate $70
Student Rate* $60
Cost of all workshops (5): $350.00
Regular Workshop Pass: $300.00, EXCLUSIVE WORKSHOP INCLUDED
Cost of all workshops @ student rate (5):$300.00
Student Workshop Pass: $250.00, EXCLUSIVE WORKSHOP INCLUDED
*Student Rate means that the student is enrolled in a Fall Semester course at ASoOC!
If you want to do this course and more, opt for one of our Membership Plans to lock in the best value for your training. The more you train, the better you will act.
PAYMENT DISCLOSURE
As always, there are no returns or transfers. Tuition reserves your spot in class; all classes fill up, so this is the only way to confirm your spot. Tuition is non-refundable nor transferrable, as class is a commitment to yourself, your scene partner, your instructor and the collective.
MAKE-UP CLASS POLICY
Industry Workshops are individual classes tailored for each semester and do not have make-up policy. If the student has a doctors note for the absence on the day of the Workshop, the studio may provide a transfer to a different Industry Workshop or a credit which must be used within 1 year of the initial purchase.
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