TIE DIPLOMA

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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, and 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 curricula vitae 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 the “Request Diploma” option and submit your request.

How do I request my TIE Diploma?

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.

May I take classes from the next level if I have not completed the previous level?

Yes, you may take classes at any level as long as you have completed the prerequisite for that particular class. Please review the class description to determine if it has a prerequisite. Most classes require that you have taken Best Practices or the Workshop Weekend, but some do not. Some classes do not have a prerequisite, for example, the Two-Hour Tips: Intimacy Coordinator Lab and Hiring an IC. There are no prerequisites for in-person workshops.

When will I receive my TIE Diploma after submitting a request?

We appreciate your patience and request a two-month timeframe to verify your request 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”?

Theatrical Intimacy has developed a certification that will be available soon. In order to earn the certification, one must have reached the TIE Advanced Diploma Plus Level! Keep an eye on our social media and/or on this page to learn more about the certification and when one will be able to apply to complete it. Beginning your classes and earning your diplomas is the first step towards certification with TIE.

TIE DIPLOMA Levels 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 requirements 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 Artists

  • 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
    and/or Symposium Attendance

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

  • Two-Hour Tips: Creating a Culture of Consent: Community Agreements

  • Two-Hour Tips: Curating Trauma-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 Integrating Best Practices into K-12 Lesson Planning

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

TIE Advanced Diploma

Courses Required:

In-Person Workshop:

  • Workshop Weekend
    and/or Symposium Attendance

  • Intimacy Coordinator In-Person Lab and/or Intimacy Choreography In-Person Lab
    and/or Cooking with Choreography In-Person

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

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

  • Two-Hour Tips: Paperwork and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Clarifying Scope and Scale of Community Care and/or Community Care: Application of MHFA Tools

  • Two-Hour Tips: Hiring an IC

  • Two-Hour Tips: The Intimacy Coordinator Lab

  • Two-Hour Tips: The Intimacy Choreographer Lab

  • Two-Hour Tips: Voice and Intimacy

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

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

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

TIE Advanced Diploma PLUS

Courses Required:

In-Person Workshops:

  • Workshop Weekend
    and/or Symposium Attendance

  • Intimacy Coordinator In-Person Lab
    or
    Intimacy Choreography 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:

  • Dance and Intimacy

  • Research Tools- Writing About Your Work

  • Cognitive Equity in Lighting Design

  • Training the Trans Singing Voice

  • Dramaturgy and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Costumes and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Improv and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Writing and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Shakespeare and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Lighting and Intimacy

  • 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: Fat Performers and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: The Intersection of AI and Intimacy Coordination

  • Two-Hour Tips: Pregnancy and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Faith-Based Institutions and Intimacy

  • Two-Hour Tips: Theatre, Film, and Sex as a Profession and/or *Staging Sex: Sex Work on Stage and Screen

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

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

  • *Staging Sex: Polyamory, Non-monogamy, and Playing in groups (no longer offered)

Click here for a Printable Advanced Plus Diploma Checklist.

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 Classroom
Mental 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