Laura Rikard (SAG-AFTRA/AEA/SDC) is an intimacy coordinator and choreographer. She is Co-Founder and Head Faculty of Theatre Intimacy Education. She is also a director, actor, and stage movement specialist. Laura choreographs, consults, and teaches workshops on best practices for staging intimacy for professional and educational theatre and film across the country. She serves as the primary Intimacy Choreographer for the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She is an Intimacy Coordinator with NBC Universal. As a director and actor she has worked in film and television, NYC, regionally, on national tours, internationally and devised solo productions. She is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of South Carolina Upstate. She is a recipient of the best acting award at the Virginia Film and has been named by Academic Keys as a "Who's Who in Fine Arts Education" Festival. She is a member of the National Alliance of Acting Teachers, ATME,, and the SAFD. VASTAShe has served on faculty at Stephen F. Austin State University, Brown University, and the University of Miami. She is based in Asheville, NC.