Drawing on practices used at the Nashville Shakespeare Festival, this Best Practices For Intimacy In Performance Master Class focuses on best practices and procedures for consent-based theatrical storytelling, and how they can be applied in rehearsal rooms and performance spaces for all kinds of performing arts disciplines.

This master class is not a certification program. Instead, it is a practical, values-driven learning opportunity designed to share tools, language, and frameworks that support clear communication, consent, and care in collaborative creative environments.

Participants will explore NSF’s Seven C’s of Intimacy. Through discussions, practical examples, and a Q&A, participants will examine how these principles can be adapted to their own work and rehearsal processes. This offering is ideal for directors, actors, choreographers, designers, educators, and theatre-makers who want to strengthen their rehearsal practices and foster environments where authentic storytelling and personal well-being go hand in hand.

At NSF, consent-based practices aren’t just a policy. They are an essential part of how we approach ethical, sustainable, and collaborative theatre-making, and this class invites participants to bring those practices into their own spaces.