MSU Assistant Professor of Acting and Movement and certified intimacy director, Alexis Black, MSU Academic Specialist and AEA Stage Manager Tina Newhauser, and stage manager and Department of Theatre Alumnus Chris Badia discuss the creation of Stage Managing Intimacy, a workshop that Alexis and Tina are leading for Intimacy Directors & Coordinators. The course covers best practices and protocols that allow stage managers to support the creation and performance of consensual intimacy choreography. This workshop has been a national collaboration of theatre professionals and has evolved from the work Tina and Alexis did right here with MSU Stage Management students, like Chris, to write a stage management handbook that includes these best practices.