Claire Warden

Claire (she/her) is an intimacy coordinator, fight director, teacher and actress with over twenty years experience in theatre, TV and film across America and the UK. She is a fully accredited Intimacy Coordinator through IDC and works on set to help implement best practices to address scenes of intimacy and nudity in a safe and effective manner. Claire works as an intimacy coordinator and consultant on numerous television productions under various studios including HBO, Hulu, Amazon, Showtime, as well major motion picture studios such as Sony and 20th Century Fox. She has worked on the series 'Gossip Girl (2021), 'Mrs Fletcher', 'Your Honor', 'Finding Alaska', 'Hunters', Billions and the feature film of 'West Side Story', and 'Journal for Jordan' among others. She is part of the collaboration team advising SAG-AFTRA on their effort to standardize, codify and implement guidelines for on-set intimacy coordinators. Claire recently made history as the first intimacy director on Broadway with Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and also worked as Intimacy Director on the Broadway productions of Slave Play, The Inheritance, Jagged Little Pill, Linda Vista, West Side Story and Company. She was recently awarded Variety Magazine's 2019 '10 Broadway Players to Watch'. Claire is a Drama Desk award winner for 'Outstanding Fight Choreography' for Slave Play at NYTW and was also nominated in the same category for the play Daddy. Claire trains faculty & students in acting training institutions across the country, including Yale, Brown/Trinity, Brandeis, Tufts, JMU, SITI, Stella Adler, the O'Neill Theatre Center and numerous others. She has presented and given workshops for conferences and theatre communities on both sides of the Atlantic. She is also part of the teaching team of IDC, training the next generation of intimacy directors and coordinators. She is originally from Guernsey in the Channel Islands, UK.