Laura Rikard

Laura Rikard is an intimacy choreographer and coordinator and is Co-Founder and Head Faculty of Theatre Intimacy Education where she choreographs, consults, and teaches workshops on best practices for staging intimacy for professional and educational theatre and film across the country. 

She serves as the primary Intimacy Choreographer for the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and has served as Intimacy Coordinator with NBC Universal/Amazon.  As a director and actor she has worked in film and television, in NYC, internationally, regionally, and on national tours. She has also devised various solo performance productions.  

She is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of South Carolina Upstate and she has served on the faculty at Stephen F. Austin State University, Brown University, and the University of Miami.