Laura Rikard, MFA, MA (SAG-AFTRA/AEA/SDC) is an intimacy choreographer and coordinator, director, actor and professor. She is Co-Founder and Head Faculty of Theatre Intimacy Education.. She serves as the primary Intimacy Choreographer for the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, other credits include Skeleton Crew (Bristol Riverside Theatre), West Side Story (FlatRock Playhouse) and more. Intimacy Coordination credits: Harlem, What, If?, Ramy, Interview With A Vampire, Mother's Instinct, and Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches. She is a contributor to the first book on theatre intimacy, Staging Sex: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques for Theatrical Intimacy by Chelsea Pace. 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 has served on faculty at Stephen F. Austin State University, Brown University, and the University of Miami.