About me
Cara Rawlings (she/her) is an intimacy and fight director, choreographer, and movement specialist based in Southwest Virginia where she is Associate Professor of Movement and Acting at Virginia Tech. A Certified Intimacy Director and Teaching Artist with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC), Rawlings works to create safer spaces for performers by using consent-based practices in the process of staging choreographed moments of Intimacy in performance. Rawlings is a Certified Stage Combat Instructor with The Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD). She has worked on over 75 productions in professional and academic theatre. Her fight and intimacy work has been seen at Arena Stage, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, and other venues in the U.S., Greece, and Austria. Rawlings holds a Master of Fine Arts in Movement Pedagogy and Fight Direction from Virginia Commonwealth University.