Founder & Lead Trainer

Michela Carattini is a SAG-AFTRA-accredited intimacy coordinator, and a SAG-AFTRA-accredited Head Trainer at Key Intimate Scenes (Australia/NZ) & KISSuisse (Switzerland). She is a member of the Australasian Intimacy Coordination Network (AICN) and Intimacy Coordinators Switzerland (ICS). Her intimacy coordination credits include the Amazon hit series NINE PERFECT STRANGERS (starring Nicole Kidman, Tiffany Boone, Melissa McCarthy, Michael Shannon and Samara Weaving), the Berlinale-selected SBS hit series WHILE THE MEN ARE AWAY (starring Michela De Rossi and Gemma Ward), the critically acclaimed films BLAZE (starring Simon Baker and Yael Stone) and BIRDEATER (starring Shabana Azeez), and she has overseen intimacy direction for celebrated stage productions such as WHITEFELLA YELLA TREE and for the ROYAL NEW ZEALAND BALLET. 

She was part of the team which drafted Australia’s National Intimacy Guidelines, was the international consultant on the Austrian National Intimacy Guidelines and an international consultant on the Swiss National Intimacy Guidelines. She has provided workshops and advanced training and instruction for a number of international institutions, conferences and curricula, including at the inaugural International Conference for Intimacy Coordination (ICIC) at Berlinale, for the Bundesverein Intimitätskoordination & Kampfchoreografie (BIK), the Australian Film & Television Radio School (AFTRS) and the Spanish-language curriculum for Intimact Spain for trainees in Latin America and Spain. Michela co-founded the Arabic Intimacy Coordination Resource Group (AICRG), the Australasian Intimacy Coordination Network (AICN), and developed an Australia-specific, Indigenous-led IC training curriculum. She has worked in the screen and stage industries for three decades, with expertise in cultural competence, mental health and law. She received her BA in Psychology from Columbia University and her Masters in Criminology from Sydney University Law School, working for just under a decade across three countries as a caseworker and crisis-counselor specializing in violence against the less powerful and culturally and linguistically diverse clients. Michela is a qualified and experienced mental health professional with advanced degrees in psychology and law, and with expertise in managing secondary traumatisation in actors.

Branch Manager & Trainer

In addition to many years of IC training from programmes in the US and UK, Désirée Wenger is internationally accredited as an intimacy coordinator through the 2-year, SAG-AFTRA-accredited training programme at Key Intimate Scenes (KIS). A Swiss native, her IC credits include the stage productions Kill your Darlings, Broken Strings, Familienidyll, Pirate Appreciation Day, Disgraced and The Plot, Like Gravy, Thickens. Her screen IC credits include the films Butterfly Stroke, Enjoy Your Stay, Dog Days, What the Heart Needs, If You Were Me – “Where Have You Gone” and For the First Time. She has taught multiple intimacy workshops for Hochschule Luzern, and is published in the book "Intimitätskoordination", and by Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London for her Master Thesis, Violence and Intimacy on the Greek Stage. 

Also a theatre director and educator, she holds a Master of Arts in Theatre Directing from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London, and a Master of French & English Literature from the University of Zürich and Lausanne.  

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