TIE DIPLOMA

Train. Learn. Achieve.

Beginner. Intermediate. Advanced. Advanced Plus.

What is the TIE Diploma?

Theatrical Intimacy Education is grateful for the hours many spend training and learning with us. We wish to honor the education participants have completed by awarding the TIE Diploma. Earning the TIE Diploma demonstrates that the holder has a comprehensive understanding of the TIE pedagogy holistically. The TIE Diploma is earned after a participant has taken set number courses for each level that are outlined below. For now there are four degree levels; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Advanced Plus.

This an umbrella document for all those letters of class completion many have collected over the years. We hope this will provide a more efficient way to note training on curriculum vitaes and resumes.

How do I earn my TIE Diploma?

Please read through each diploma level. Once you have taken the set number of courses to earn the Diploma please go to “Request Diploma” option (will be available April 15th, 2024) and submit your request.

How do I request my TIE Diploma?

Beginning April 15th, 2024, please click on “Request Diploma” and answer the questions. Once our team has received and verified your request you will receive your TIE Diploma via email.

When will I receive my TIE Diploma after a request is submitted?

We ask for your patience with us and give us a two month time span to verify and send you your TIE Diploma. The Diploma you receive will be a PDF document sent to you via email.

How is this not a “certification”?

In the absence of a national non-profit credentialing organization to establish and maintain standards for an Intimacy Coordination, Intimacy Choreography, and Intimacy Direction certification, we offer the TIE Diploma. The Diploma indicates and honors an individual’s training with Theatrical Intimacy Education’s tools and practices.

We will not offer a certification until a national non-profit credentialing organization establishes industry-wide standards for an Intimacy Coordination, Intimacy Choreography, and Intimacy Direction certification.

The TIE Diploma signifies an individual’s level of training with TIE's philosophy and practices in the absence of a national non-profit credentialing organization.

TIE DIPLOMA Level and Requirements

TIE Beginner Diploma

Courses Required:

All Available Online

  • Best Practices or Best Practices BIPOC/Global Majority Affinity Space

  • Theatrical Studio Techniques, Casting, and Policy

    • In Person Weekend Workshop will meet the requirement for the online Best Practices and Theatrical Studio Theatrical Studio Techniques, Casting and Policy combined

  • Foundations in Race, Intimacy, and Consent

  • Intimacy Choreography For Live Performance

  • Intimacy Coordination For Film and TV

  • Working with Minors

  • Working with Trans and Non-Binary Actors

  • Actors and Intimacy

  • Two Hour Tips: Modesty Garments and More! and/or *Modesty Garments, Barriers, and Masking

  • Mental Health First Aid Certification (will accept other institutions with documentation)

  • Bystander Intervention Training (will accept other institutions with documentation)

TIE Intermediate Diploma

Courses Required:

In Person Workshop:

  • Workshop Weekend

Online Workshops: in addition to the Beginner Diploma Requirements:

  • Stage Management and Intimacy

  • Race and Choreography

  • Staging Intimacy Beyond the Binary

  • Consent in the Acting Classroom

  • Stage Management and Intimacy

  • Creating a Culture of Consent: Community Agreements

  • Two Hour Tips: Curating Trama-Conscious Creative Spaces and/or *Trauma Informed Practices

  • Two Hour Tips: Ready to Work as an IC and/or *Working as an IC and/or Qualifications: Building Your Intimacy Resume

  • Educators may substitute Ready to Work as an IC with K12 Lesson Plans

  • Youth Mental Health First Aid (will accept training from other institutions with provided documentation)

TIE Diploma Advanced

Courses Required:

In Person Workshop:

  • Workshop Weekend

  • Intimacy Coordinator In Person Lab and/or Intimacy Choreographer In Person Lab

Online Workshops: in addition to the Beginner and Intermediate Diploma Requirements:

  • Cognitive Equity in Design: Lighting

  • Community Care: Application of MHFA Tools

  • Costumes and Intimacy

  • Intimacy and Voice

  • Hiring an IC

  • Two Hour Tips: The Intimacy Coordinator Lab

  • Two Hour Tips: The Intimacy Choreographer Lab

  • Two Hour Tips: Choreographing Non-consensual Intimate Narratives and/or *Staging Sex: Non-consensual Stories

  • Two Hour Tips: Kissing Questions and/or *Staging Sex: Kissing

  • Two Hour Tips: Cooking with Choreography and/or any previous *Staging Sex: Intercourse, Outercourse or Power Play

  • Two Hour Tips: Music Theatre and Intimacy and/or *Staging Sex: Musical Theatre

TIE Diploma Advanced Plus

Courses Required:

In Person Workshops:

  • Workshop Weekend

  • Intimacy Coordinator In Person Lab

  • Intimacy Choreographer In Person Lab

Online Workshops: in addition to the Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Diploma Requirements Plus 5 From the Following Menu of our upcoming New Workshops:

  • Dramaturgy and Intimacy

  • Dance and Intimacy

  • Training the Trans Singing Voice

  • Two Hour Tips: Stage Management, Intimacy, and the Industry

  • Two Hour Tips: Stage Management, Staging Close Relationships, and Educational Theatre

  • Two Hour Tips: Shakespeare and Intimacy

  • Two Hour Tips: Lighting and Intimacy

  • Two Hour Tips: Research Tools- Writing About Your Work

  • Two Hour Tips: Curating Trama-Conscious Creative Spaces

  • Two Hour Tips: Facilitators and Boundaries

  • Two Hour Tips: From Surviving to Thriving in Academia

  • Two Hour Tips: Consent in the Singing Studio

  • Two Hour Tips: Stage Fighting and Intimacy

  • Two Hour Tips: Staging Intimacy and Fat Performers

  • Two Hour Tips: AI and Intimacy

  • Two Hour Tips: Working Faith Based Institutions

  • *Staging Sex: Sex Work on stage and screen

  • *Staging Sex: Polyamory, Non-monogamy, and playing in groups

Note: All classes marked with *will not be offered after March, 2024

Classes will be offered at various dates throughout the year.

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The SAG-AFTRA Recommended Track for Intimacy Coordinators

Below are listed the courses that may meet the SAG-AFTRA standards. For information purposes only. TIE does not offer a diploma for this track.

Consent Training:

Best Practices
Consent in the Acting Classroom

Anti-harassment/anti-sexual harassment training:

Consent in the Acting ClassroomMental Health First Aid
Bystander Intervention Training

Movement Coaching and Masking Techniques

Bystander Intervention Training
Intimacy Choreography
Cooking with Choreography
Kissing Questions

Proper use of modesty garments and barriers

Modesty Garments and More

Mediation or conflict resolution training

Creating a Culture of Consent: Building Community Agreements

Gender Identity & Sexual Orientation Training

Working with Trans and Non-Binary Actors
Beyond the Binary

Anti-Racist/EDI training

Foundations in Race, Intimacy and Choreography

Bystander intervention

Bystander Intervention Training

Mental Health First Aid, Trauma Stewardship, or related training

Mental Health First Aid
Building Trauma-Informed Spaces