Shana is an intimacy coordinator, actor, dancer, singer, and teaching artist with over 20 years of professional experience.

Shana studied intimacy coordination in the second-only cohort to be certified as Intimacy Coordinators for film and television with industry pioneers Alicia Rodis and Claire Warden at IDC-Intimacy Directors & Coordinators. Shana’s professional experience as an actor, singer, and dancer informs and shapes her work. She is a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA and is thrilled that the union now has standardized intimacy protocols.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in music theater from The Hartt School of Music, in Hartford, CT, where she studied ballet with the Hartford Ballet, as well as jazz, tap, and musical theater. She has many years of professional credits dancing in Broadway musicals such as “Cats”, Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”, Broadway's first national tour of “Cabaret”, “Evita”, “Dance of the Vampires” and “Forbidden Broadway” to name a few. Dance and movement have been a part of her life’s work from an early age, and she approaches choreography and movement in intimacy from the eye of a dancer as well as an actor.

As an IC, Shana serves as a liaison between actors, director, and production in filming scenes of nudity or simulated sex to ensure communication, establish boundaries and implement industry protocols to create a safe working environment that enables actors to do their best work, all while ensuring that the director’s vision is achieved.

Shana is an LGBTQIA+ and diversity advocate, and is trained and holds certifications in Mental Health First Aid, Psychological First Aid: John Hopkins University, Kirwin Institute: Implicit Bias Series: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Justice, Transgender Training Institute, The Safe Zone Project, NY State Sexual Harassment Certification, Bystander Intervention and Safe Sets Covid-19 for the Film & Video Production Industry.