Carrie Thiel
Intimacy | Violence | Movement Design
Carrie is a Wellington based intimacy coordinator and performance director with extensive experience staging violence and intimacy, and directing character movement and motion capture.
She/They
Who am I?
I am a founding member of Intimacy Coordinators Aotearoa. In 2019 they began training with Intimacy Directors International (USA) and from 2020 was mentored by Ita O’Brien of Intimacy On Set (UK) and Casey Hudecki of Intimacy Coordinators Canada, achieving full accreditation with ICC in 2023.
Carrie is also a trained and accomplished stunt performer and a certified fight director and instructor with Fight Directors Canada, as well as a founding member of Aotearoa Fight Directors.
Carrie has served as intimacy coordinator on a wide variety of stage and screen projects including television and web series work (After The Party, Self Help, Cowboy BeBop), feature film (Bad Behaviour, It’s All About You), many short films and theatre productions.
Also an experienced educator, she has presented professional training workshops for DEGANZ, WIFT, ScreenSafe/SWAG, Equity New Zealand, NZIF, BATS Theatre, NZ Fringe Festival, MTNZ and for several film production and acting programs (Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka, Toi Whakaari, Massey University, Whitireia – Te Pūkenga)
Carrie holds certificates in Professional Respect Training for the Screen Industry (ScreenSafe/SWAG), Fundamentals of Child Protection (Safeguarding Children), First Aid & Mental Health First Aid (St John & Co-Liberate), and has undertaken additional training in Trauma Informed Practices, Disability Awareness and Access, Gender, Sexuality & LGBTQI+ Support.
Originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Carrie has a BFA in Acting (University of Alberta, Canada) and an MFA in Directing & Creative Practice (Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka, New Zealand).
Intimacy Coordination / Direction Credits:
2024
Romeo & Juliet (Stage) – Circle of Fifths, NZ Fringe Festival
2023
After the Party (TV Series) – TVNZ
Bad Behaviour (Feature Film) – Badly Behaved Babes Ltd
Milk Of Dreams (Short Film) – Exact Estimate Ltd
August: Osage County (Stage) – Toi Whakaari
Saint Margo (Short Film) – Victoria University of Wellington
Little Shop of Horrors (Stage) – Porirua Little Theatre
Core (Stage) – BATS Theatre
2022
Mary Mary (Short Film) – Someday Stories
It’s All About You (Feature Film) – About You Films Ltd
Gate Crash (Short Film) – Tomorrow, Rain Ltd
Self Help (Web Series) – Wrestler Studios
Macbeth (Stage) – NZ Opera
Rites of Passage (Stage) – Long Cloud Youth Theatre
Schamfreude (Stage) – NZ School of Music
2021
Cowboy Bebop (TV Series) – Netflix
Fatso (Short Film) – Victoria University of Wellington
Late Night Pawn (Short Film) – Max De Roy Productions
2020
A Midsummer Nights Dream (Stage) – Summer Shakespeare
HOLE (Stage) – Ice Floe Productions, Circa Theatre
The Late Shift (Short Film) – Victoria University of Wellington
Songbird (Short Film) – Victoria University of Wellington
Ophelia Thinks Harder (Stage) – Stagecraft, Gryphon Theatre
2019
Pakaru (Stage) – BATS Theatre
Der Koch (Short Film) – Victoria University of Wellington
Scrubbing Day (Short Film) – Normal Company
Te Puna Hipi (Stage) – Victoria University of Wellington
Extremities (Stage) – Mana Little Theatre
Skin Tight (Stage) – Victoria University of Wellington
Beer Girl (Stage) – Victoria University of Wellington
True Love (Stage) – Victoria University of Wellington