Tommy came to intimacy coordination through their extensive work in developing safer spaces in the arts and their commitment to embodied practice. As well as having first hand experience of the industry as a director, writer, performer and movement director, they also bring their wealth of experience in social justice and consent training, rooting their practice in anti-oppression and liberation.

As an Intimacy Coordinator, Tommy has worked across stage and screen with BAFTA nominated filmmakers, Sundance Winners and Academy Award nominees as well as regularly teaching at drama schools across the UK. Tommy was the Intimacy Director on Brokeback Mountain in the West End.

Tommy's training as an Intimacy Coordinator, was supported by Arts Council England, as one of the first awardees of the Developing Your Creative Practice grant to look specifically at intimacy in performance. Their practice approaches intimacy work through a radical, queer, sex-worker informed lens.

As a Jewish queer nonbinary person, they are especially passionate about developing and supporting intimate queer content that expands the representation of queer relationships and marginalised identities. Their social justice and youth work has provided them with a deep foundation to work on a range of intimate content from complex power dynamics to early experiences of intimacy, as well as more conventional depictions of romance and sexual relationships.

Tommy is on the advisory board for the organisation Beyond Equality designing and developing consent workshops for boys in schools. They also write and speak about issues related to sex, sexuality and gender in various settings, most recently as a panellist on BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze.

They are  on the Intimacy Coordination committee for BECTU as IC Registry Rep.

Header image taken from “Outdoors”, written and directed by John Fitzpatrick. 

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