Laura Hackman [she/her] is pleased to join Fires, Ohio at the Alliance Theatre. Recent and upcoming intimacy direction credits include the critically acclaimed Initiative (world premiere) at The Public Theater (NYC) and Mrs. Christie (upcoming) at McCarter Theatre (NJ). Her work as an intimacy director and sensitivity specialist is grounded in extensive training and a consent-based, trauma-informed approach to rehearsal and performance. She has served as consulting intimacy director and sensitivity specialist with Mercury Store in Brooklyn since 2022. In Atlanta, she has had the pleasure of working with Alliance Theatre’s incredible education program, Actor’s Express, Out Front Theatre, Woodstock Arts Theatre, Oglethorpe University, and Georgia State University. She developed and taught the first Introduction to Intimacy for Stage and Screen course in the University System of Georgia and is currently teaching a revised version of the course at Oglethorpe University.
Laura Hackman [she/her] is pleased to join Fires, Ohio at the Alliance Theatre. Recent and upcoming intimacy direction credits include the critically acclaimed Initiative (world premiere) at The Public Theater (NYC) and Mrs. Christie (upcoming) at McCarter Theatre (NJ). Her work as an intimacy director and sensitivity specialist is grounded in extensive training and a consent-based, trauma-informed approach to rehearsal and performance. She has served as consulting intimacy director and sensitivity specialist with Mercury Store in Brooklyn since 2022. In Atlanta, she has had the pleasure of working with Alliance Theatre’s incredible education program, Actor’s Express, Out Front Theatre, Woodstock Arts Theatre, Oglethorpe University, and Georgia State University. She developed and taught the first Introduction to Intimacy for Stage and Screen course in the University System of Georgia and is currently teaching a revised version of the course at Oglethorpe University.