Biography

Kate Busselle is the founder of Heartland Intimacy Design & Training and is Assistant Professor of Movement, Intimacy, and Violence at the University of Oklahoma. She completed her Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Missouri in 2019, making her the first intimacy expert with a doctorate. Kate has been staging intimacy and developing intimacy pedagogy for 8 years and has taught several workshops on staging intimacy, presented on dozens of academic panels, written and contributed to many articles on theatrical intimacy, and has been designing intimacy for several productions.

As a researcher, Kate is invested in not only providing the tools of staging intimacy, but providing context as to how and why theatrical intimacy, nudity, and sexual violence needs to be staged. She is also an expert in de-roling and debriefing practices.

Kate is an Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD). She is also a member of the Association of Movement Theatre Educators (ATME), Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE).
- IMDb mini biography by: Kate Busselle