Illuminating this new and important theatre artistry, Intimacy Director Olivia Buntaine talks about the intimate choices in some of Shakespeare's plays. Watch the free live-stream Bard Talks Webinar Saturday, April 18 at 10am Pacific. Register to save your spot>>

Olivia Buntaine is an Intimacy Director for theater based in Los Angeles and Boston, and was an apprentice with Intimacy Directors International. She specializes in choreographing unconventional and creative intimacy scenes through a pedagogical lens of intersectionality, trauma-informed care and the investigation of power and privilege. She is especially skilled at navigating scenes of intimate violence, sex and power, and fantastical hyper-stylized moments of intimacy. When not intimacy directing, she is the Artistic Director of the Los Angeles-based theater company Project Nongenue: focused on centralizing the voices of women and marginalized populations in classical theater. She has trained at the British American Drama Academy, the American Repertory Theater, Theatriucm Botanicum and Pomona College.