BA, SUNY Purchase. MA, New York University. DeLeon is an American-Uruguayan intimacy director/coordinator, director, and teacher from Miami, Florida. As an intimacy choreographer, she has worked with Queens College, Weston Playhouse Theatre, New York University, The New School, BRIC, Columbia University, and Downstage at SLC, as well as multiple short films. As a director, her work has been presented at INTAR, The Wild Project, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, The Flea, Pregones Theater, Harlem 9 Inc., and Adelphi University. DeLeon teaches intimacy direction with IDC Professionals and has taught and co-taught introductory intimacy workshops at The American Academy for Dramatic Arts and New York University. She worked in Development at both The Lark Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club and was a resident director at The Flea, a member of Roundabout Theatre’s 2019-2020 Emerging Director’s Group, and part of Roundabout’s Refocus Project Artistic Council. Currently, she is the co-captain of Culture and Accountability, as well as the resident intimacy director at The Fled Collective. SLC, 2021–
Previous Courses
Theatre
Intimacy in Performance I
Intermediate, Component—Year
Prerequisite: previous acting, directing, or stage management class or permission of the instructor
This class will provide students with an introduction to the language, processes, and best practices of intimacy training for stage and screen. The class will meet once per week, during which time students will engage in discussions of terms and theory, learn fundamentals of approaching scene work or material that is intimate in nature, and work collaboratively to simulate artistic settings where best practices can be enacted and assessed. Toward the end of the term, students will work with text, scenes, or breakdowns to practice their approach to solving challenges around intimacy choreography.
Faculty
Intimacy in Performance II
Intermediate, Component—Year
Prerequisite: Intimacy in Performance I
This class will provide students with an advanced study of the language, processes, and best practices of intimacy training for stage and screen. The class will meet once per week, during which time students will engage in discussions of terms and theory, learn fundamentals of approaching scene work or material that is intimate in nature, and work collaboratively to simulate artistic settings where best practices can be enacted and assessed. Toward the end of the term, students will work with text, scenes, or breakdowns to practice their approach to solving challenges around intimacy choreography.