Intimacy Coordinator
As You Are – REALNew Collective, New York City, NY (2022)
Friends of Sophia – Casa Vera Productions, New York City, NY (2021)
Perfectly Good Moment – Phaedra to Black, New York City, NY (2021)
As The Winter Turns to Fall – Marymount Manhattan College, New York City, NY (2021)
Tacos on New Years Eve – Monticello Park Productions, New York City, NY (2021)
Kissing Kerouac – Independent, Lakeville, CT (2021)
Apophenia – Mulberry Queens Films, LLC Blairstown, NJ (2020)
Carona Date – NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York City, NY (2020)
Intimacy Director
Spring Awakening – In the Round Productions, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (2022)
Intimacy Consultant
Krystal Unseen – Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (2024)
Corrosion – Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (2024)
Erasure – Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (2024)
Buzz Killer – Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (2024)
Revolver Magic Wand – Independent, New York City, NY (2024)
First Time – Independent, New York City, NY (2022)
Roost – Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, New York City, NY (2021)
Seeing Is Forgetting – Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, NYC (2021)
Peepshow – Marymount Manhattan College, New York City, NY (2021)
Trauma Bond – Independent, Lowell, MA (2020)
Educator
Speak About It
Portland, ME
2022
Consent Actor-Educator
• Performed a 1-hour show at colleges & university across North America to teach students about consent, drugs & party culture, & bystander intervention
• Trained for 3 weeks to learn educational tools to support student leaders in facilitating conversations about consent on their campus
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
2021-2022
Marymount Manhattan College
New York City, NY
2021-2022
Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema
New York City, NY
2021
Guest Speaker
• Taught 3-hour workshop on the best practices of staging intimacy including a scene study to practice using placeholders and notating intimacy
• Spoke with students about the process of becoming an freelance intimacy coordinator and answered questions about the job
• Lectured on Intimacy in Film including an overview of intimacy coordination, consent, & writing intimacy for film and television to directing, producing, and writing graduate students
• Create a workshop centered on consensual touch in rehearsal spaces to establish best practices
• Answered questions about careers in intimacy including intimacy coordination, intimacy direction, and sex work
Director
Cinéma Very Gay – Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (2019)
Identity – Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (2019)
#StillDepressedHere – Germany, Nepal, Jordan, Chile, United States (2018 – 2019)
Dancing to Commentary – Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (2018)
My Queer Questions – Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (2017)
My Problem with Trichotilomania – Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (2017)
Respire – Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (2017)
Author
DëQueer, Acacia. “Elements of a Nudity Rider,” Aleksander Zelwerowicz’s Theater Academy, 2023.
DëQueer, Acacia. and Valentine, Kristina. “The 2022 Intimacy Professionals Census Review: Identifying Growing Pains In a Rapidly Expanding Field,” Journal of Consent-Based Performance, August 25, 2022. https://doi.org/10.46787/jcbp.v1i2.2879, 2022
Script Consultant
Blackity Black – Independent, New York, NY (2021)
Other Employment
Maine Trans Net
Portland, ME
2023
Trans Consultant
• Created prerecorded online educational content about business practices & self-advocacy for transgender artists in Maine
Vassar College Office of Accessibility and Educational Opportunity
Poughkeepsie, NY
2017 – 2019
Accessibility Advocate
• Coordinated & performed accessibility checks on campus to ensure the proper maintenance and preparation for any persons with disabilities
• Served on student/administration run board representing AEO to organize disability programing
Clubs and Extracurriculars
Vassar Burlesque
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
2016 – 2019
Vice President & Founding Member
• Planned and taught lessons including consent training, choreography, identity exploration, & storytelling through movement
• Choreographed group, duet, & solo routines on themes including gender dysphoria, witchcraft, & menstruation
• Co-directed shows to facilitate members visions while furthering the quality of each performance
• Took official footage for the club & coordinated who & how media was to be distributed & shared in & outside the club to respect the rights of performers
AEO Office
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
2016 – 2017
Peer Accessibility Advocate
• Mentored first-year students with disabilities to navigate school administration, classes, & campus activities
• Planned campus activities designed to highlight the strengths of diversity through disability
Ballroom Club
Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY
2015 – 2019
Media & Social Chair & Teacher
• Taught swing, lindy, Charleston, & waltz to beginning students
• Choreographed for yearly event Dancing with the Professors
Swing Dancing Club
Arkansas Arts Academy
Rogers, AR
2014 – 2015
Founding Member & Teacher
• Founded, organized, and taught a swing dancing club for the students of Arkansas Arts Academy