Interview: Crista Marie Jackson Explains Why Intimacy Direction Is Essential on Stage [Broadway World]
Hiring an intimacy director on a film or stage production is a practice that is slowly but surely (and encouragingly) becoming more and more common practice.Crista Marie Jackson, the intimacy director of Colt Coeur‘s world premiere play Dodi & Diana, would like for the job of intimacy director, to be an essential one.
Colt Coeur’s World Premiere of Dodi & Diana by Kareem Fahmy, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, is playing a strictly limited engagement through October 29, 2022, at HERE (145 Sixth Avenue, NY, NY 10013). Starring Rosaline Elbay (“Ramy”) and Peter Mark Kendall (Six Degrees of Separation), the play takes place 25 years after Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed’s fatal car crash, and explores a couple’s marraige, and their strange connection to one of the world’s most famous and tragic couples.
BroadwayWorld spoke in depth with Crista Marie Jackson about the role of an intimacy director, her work on Dodi & Diana, what defines intimacy on stage, and much more. … link to the full-length interview at Broadway World.