Intimacy Coordinator & KIS Founder/Director Ethnicity: Indigenous Panamanian (Latina) & Anglo-Celtic Australian ------------ Languages: English, German, Spanish, some Italian, French, Czech

Michela Carattini is a Gadigal/Sydney-based, SAG-AFTRA accredited, Intimacy Coordinator. Known for her intimacy work on high profile Australian series, such as Nine Perfect Strangers (Amazon/Hulu) and While The Men Are Away (SBS), Michela has worked in the Arts & Entertainment industry for over 30 years, and is also a qualified mental health, consent and trauma specialist. One of the first in the world to be insured with public liability and professional indemnity under the title of "Intimacy Coordinator”, she consulted on the MEAA (Australian Equity) panel for the creation of Australia’s National Intimacy Guidelines, and developed the only Australia-based training curriculum for Intimacy Coordinators. She has created and instructed several Intimacy Coordination Workshops and Seminars for Directors & Producers at AFTRS, and is a founding member of the Australasian Intimacy Coordination Network. Read Full Bio

Intimacy Coordinator & KIS Co-Founder Ethnicity: Wiradjuri-Gadigal (First Nations Australian) & Anglo-Celtic Australian Languages: English, some Wiradjuri, Gadigal
Akala Newman is a Gadigal/Sydney-based Intimacy Coordinator and Workshop Facilitator. She is a proud Wiradjuri/Gadigal multi-disciplinary performer, songwriter, educator and cultural producer, who brings cultural care practices to all of her work. A First Nations Academic Lecturer and Student Coordinator at the National Art School, an Artist Educator at the Museum of Contemporary Arts, she is also a Research Assistant at University of New South Wales. With Key Intimate Scenes, Australia, she is most proud to have worked on Whitefella Yella Tree (Griffin Theatre) and While The Men are Away (Arcadia/ SBS). Read Full Bio

Intimacy Coordinator & KIS Co-Founder Ethnicity: Syrian (Arab) ------------Languages: English, Arabic (several dialects)
Adeeb Razzouk is a Gadigal/Sydney-based Intimacy Coordinator and Workshop Facilitator. A successful Syrian actor, director, content creator and Theatre of the Oppressed instructor, he most recently appeared in House of Gods and is currently working on the experimental theatre and film experience Light Room Show with Curious Works Australia As an arts facilitator and youth worker for the Community Migrant Resource Centre, he produced Art Ground, a community arts event for CALD-identifying artists and performers, and Voice Memo, a sound collage of refugee experiences for online broadcast drama. Adeeb is thrilled to bring Intimacy Professionalism to the Arabic-speaking industry as founder of the Arabic IC Resource Group. His intimacy coordination credits include screen productions The Back Prince, The Duke & The Raja, A Room in the City, KXT’s theatre production of Breathing Corpses, and several workshops for Poetry in Motion. Read Full Bio

Intimacy Coordinator & Workshop Facilitator Ethnicity: African American Languages: English, Japanese
Asabi Goodman is an Intimacy Coordinator and Workshop Facilitator based in Meanjin-Yuggera Country (Brisbane). Asabi is Equity Board President for Queensland, as well as an exceptional singer and performer in her own right (starring in the national tours of Chicago and Hairspray), and brings with her 20 years experience as a municipal and industrial engineer. She trained as an IC with IDC’s Australian Equity Programme and has been supporting stage and screen productions ever since.

Intimacy Coordinator & KIS Head of Training Ethnicity: Anglo-Celtic American Languages: English, some Maori
Dr. Lori Leigh (she/they) is an award-winning Wellington-based artist and educator, and one of the most qualified and experienced intimacy coordinators in Aotearoa New Zealand. For over a decade, Lori has been a Senior Lecturer in the Theatre Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. As an educator, Lori has taught intimacy workshops for Victoria University of Wellington, Te Auaha Creative Centre, Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand, BATS Theatre, the New Zealand International Fringe Festival, and Entertainment Technology New Zealand (ETNZ). Recent intimacy credits for Lori include Intimacy Coordinator for the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s (RNZB) 2022 production of Cinderella, choreographed by Loughlan Prior, which saw staged the first queer kiss of the RNZB; intimacy assistant on the SBS television series “While the Men Are Away”, and theatre productions of Sweeney Todd and The Three Sisters. Read Full Bio

KIS Supervision Counselor
Gene Niblack is one of our Mental Health Supervision Counselors. After a long stint as Mental Health Services Manager at Southwestern Sydney Local Health, he now teaches at Excelsia College and the Australian College of Applied Professions as a professor of Diversity in Professional Practice (Counselling) and Introduction to Contemporary Society (Sociology).

KIS Supervision Counselor
Steph Power is one of our Mental Health Supervision counselors. She is a WAAPA graduate with a degree in Acting & Performance Directing, a Grad.Dip in Psychotherapy (Murdoch University), and a Masters in Counseling (Monash University). Steph is an experienced Acting Coach and registered Industry Therapist who delivers comprehensive on-set welfare services, she is a Member of the MEAA Equity Wellness Committee and Founder of the first Intimacy Coordinators Australia online resource. Steph deeply understands screen acting and filmmaking having studied Screen Acting at The London Actors Centre and having worked behind the scenes for Polygram Films London (Script), BBC’s Channel Four, Barron Films, WAAPA and within her company Enigma Films. As one of Australia's longest-operating intimacy coordinators, Steph has worked on sets and educated in actor welfare for MTC, WAAPA, JMC Film Academy, Komixx Entertainment’s Itch 2 TV Series, WIFT Australia, National Theatre Drama School, Equity Wellness and was a welfare contributor to Screen Australia’s Covid Safe Set Guidelines. Her IC credits include 5 Bedrooms, Prawn, Petrol and My Eyes. For more please go to LinkedIn Steph Power or Social Media platforms.

KIS Instructor & Supervision Counselor
Gene Niblack is one of our Mental Health Supervision Counselors. After a long stint as Mental Health Services Manager at Southwestern Sydney Local Health, he now teaches at Excelsia College and the Australian College of Applied Professions as a professor of Diversity in Professional Practice (Counselling) and Introduction to Contemporary Society (Sociology).

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