Meet the Team

Our team of qualified coordinators represent diverse identities to cover a wide variation of production needs. We work together to ensure a safety net for production, and to enable handover within a consistent system.

  • Intimacy Coordinator & KIS Founder/Director Ethnicity: Indigenous Panamanian (Latina) & Anglo-Celtic Australian ------------ Languages: English, German, Spanish, some Italian, French, Czech

    Michela Carattini is a Gadigal/Sydney-based, SAG-AFTRA accredited, Intimacy Coordinator. Known for her intimacy work on high profile Australian series, such as Nine Perfect Strangers (Amazon/Hulu) and While The Men Are Away (SBS), Michela has worked in the Arts & Entertainment industry for over 30 years, and is also a qualified mental health, consent and trauma specialist. One of the first in the world to be insured with public liability and professional indemnity under the title of "Intimacy Coordinator”, she consulted on the MEAA (Australian Equity) panel for the creation of Australia’s National Intimacy Guidelines, and developed the only Australia-based training curriculum for Intimacy Coordinators. She has created and instructed several Intimacy Coordination Workshops and Seminars for Directors & Producers at AFTRS, and is a founding member of the Australasian Intimacy Coordination Network. Read Full Bio

  • Intimacy Coordinator & KIS Co-Founder Ethnicity: Wiradjuri-Gadigal (First Nations Australian) & Anglo-Celtic Australian Languages: English, some Wiradjuri, Gadigal

    Akala Newman is a Gadigal/Sydney-based Intimacy Coordinator and Workshop Facilitator. She is a proud Wiradjuri/Gadigal multi-disciplinary performer, songwriter, educator and cultural producer, who brings cultural care practices to all of her work. A First Nations Academic Lecturer and Student Coordinator at the National Art School, an Artist Educator at the Museum of Contemporary Arts, she is also a Research Assistant at University of New South Wales. With Key Intimate Scenes, Australia, she is most proud to have worked on Whitefella Yella Tree (Griffin Theatre) and While The Men are Away (Arcadia/ SBS). Read Full Bio

  • Intimacy Coordinator & KIS Co-Founder Ethnicity: Syrian (Levantine Arab) ---------Languages: English, Arabic (several dialects)

    Adeeb Razzouk is a Gadigal/Sydney-based Intimacy Coordinator and Workshop Facilitator. A successful Syrian actor, director, content creator and Theatre of the Oppressed instructor, he most recently appeared in House of Gods and is currently working on the experimental theatre and film experience Light Room Show with Curious Works Australia As an arts facilitator and youth worker for the Community Migrant Resource Centre, he produced Art Ground, a community arts event for CALD-identifying artists and performers, and Voice Memo, a sound collage of refugee experiences for online broadcast drama. Adeeb is thrilled to bring Intimacy Professionalism to the Arabic-speaking industry as founder of the Arabic IC Resource Group. His intimacy coordination credits include screen productions The Back Prince, The Duke & The Raja, A Room in the City, KXT’s theatre production of Breathing Corpses, and several workshops for Poetry in Motion. Read Full Bio

  • Intimacy Coordinator Ethnicity: Anglo-Celtic-Australian & Scandanavian Languages: English, French, some Italian

    Jessica Stanley (she/her) is an intimacy coodrinator based in Naarm/Melbourne. She is fully accredited through the 2-year, SAG-AFTRA-accredited, Key Intimate Scenes Australian IC Training Programme. Her recent stage intimacy credits include Cyrano (Artefact Theatre), Hamlet (Melbourne Shakespeare Company), POTUS (Lightning Jar), Punk Rock (Lunatix) and Footloose! the Musical (The Athenaeum). Her screen intimacy credits include Method (A.N. Studio), Downpour (Midnight Toast), Whiteglove Service (VCA) & Hit the Jackpot! (Lucky Studios).

    Jess holds a long career as an actor, writer, voice artist and marriage celebrant. With a Bachelor of Performing Arts from Monash University, a Bachelor of Social Sciences from Swinburne University and a graduate of the Full Time Acting Course at the Howard Fine Acting Studio, Australia, she is now Co-Artistic Director of the independent theatre company Spinning Plates. Her stage credits include multi-Green Room Award-winning The Crocodile, and Green Room nominees Rhinoceros and Shut Up I’m a Vampire (the latter of which she also wrote), Ross & Rachel, Titus Andronicus, Quite Drunk, Very Jesus-y, Navy Pier and Ménage. Her screen credits include the 2025 feature film Ancestry Road, The Doctor Blake Mysteries and Glitch. 

    In 2021 Jess won the Melbourne Fringe Art Unbound Award for her ASMR-based work, JSMR, and in 2022, her first novel, Intimacy, was long-listed for the Richell Prize. In her spare time, Jess hosts the podcast Do It Again But Better, where actors discuss their audition experiences—the good, the bad and the cringe. With a passion for the intersection of acting, psychology and mental wellbeing, Jess is thrilled to be able to combine her skills and interests to help make artistic spaces safer and more informed.

  • Intimacy Coordinator Trainee Ethnicity: Hong Kong-Australian Languages: English, Cantonese, Mandarin

    Christie Yip is part of the KIS IC qualification programme and is now completing her practical component, having already ICed her first feature, CURLS. Based in Gadigal/Sydney, Christie gained a Bachelor of Arts Management from the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), and is completing her Graduate Certificate in Design at the University of New South Wales, focusing on digital and immersive design. Christie comes with a background as a social/digital media producer and has worked at or consulted for the Sydney Opera House, Propel Youth Art WA, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Global Medical Foundation Australia and the Children's Medical Research Institute. Her particular interest lies in East Asian pop culture and a highlight has been producing the Sydney Opera House's first foray into K-pop with Sydney-based dance-crew HORIZON, taking over the iconic building both inside and out to film a dance video the smash hit "No Air" by The Boyz.

  • Intimacy Coordinator & Workshop Facilitator Ethnicity: African American Languages: English, Japanese

    Asabi Goodman is an Intimacy Coordinator and Workshop Facilitator based in Meanjin-Yuggera Country (Goldcoast/Brisbane). Asabi is Equity Board President for Queensland, as well as an exceptional singer and performer in her own right (starring in the national tours of Chicago and Hairspray), and brings with her 20 years experience as a municipal and industrial engineer. She trained as an IC with IDC’s Australian Equity Programme and has been supporting stage and screen productions ever since.

  • Intimacy Coordinator Trainee Ethnicity: Anglo-Celtic-Australian Languages: English

    Tahlia Miller (she/her) is part of the KIS IC qualification programme and is now completing her practical component. Based in Gadigal/Sydney and Meanjin/Brisbane, Tahlia graduated from the Queensland Academy for Creative Industries and then gained a Bachelor of Film and Screen Media Production at Griffith Film School, specialising in Directing. Her recent intimacy credits include Screen Australia’s Instagram series NOT RUSSIAN ANYWHERE, Seasons 1 and 2 of the Butoh performance 
    BLUSHING (Zen Zen Zo), and the short film CHLORINE. With KIS, she has worked on the feature film FOREVER YOUNG (Breathless Films) and upcoming queer Pasifika play FEKEI (Sour Cherry Productions). As a creative, Tahlia strives to tell authentic, contemporary, and ambitious stories across stage and screen.

  • Intimacy Coordinator & KIS Head of Training Ethnicity: Anglo-Celtic American Languages: English, some Maori

    Dr. Lori Leigh (she/they) is an award-winning Wellington-based artist and educator, and one of the most qualified and experienced intimacy coordinators in Aotearoa New Zealand. For over a decade, Lori has been a Senior Lecturer in the Theatre Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. As an educator, Lori has taught intimacy workshops for Victoria University of Wellington, Te Auaha Creative Centre, Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand, BATS Theatre, the New Zealand International Fringe Festival, and Entertainment Technology New Zealand (ETNZ). Recent intimacy credits for Lori include Intimacy Coordinator for the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s (RNZB) 2022 production of Cinderella, choreographed by Loughlan Prior, which saw staged the first queer kiss of the RNZB; intimacy assistant on the SBS television series “While the Men Are Away”, and theatre productions of Sweeney Todd and The Three Sisters. Read Full Bio

  • KIS Instructor & Supervision Counselor

    Gene Niblack is one of our Mental Health Supervision Counselors. After a long stint as Mental Health Services Manager at Southwestern Sydney Local Health, he now teaches at Excelsia College and the Australian College of Applied Professions as a professor of Diversity in Professional Practice (Counselling) and Introduction to Contemporary Society (Sociology).