Lindsay Somers
- Additional Crew
- Actress
- Producer
Lindsay Somers is the first-ever Intimacy Coordinator in Canada and the founder of Intimacy Coordinators Canada. Somers had worked as an accomplished Medical Consultant in the film community for over 15 years through her company "Ready Set Medic", with extensive work choreographing medical sequences and instructing actors on their performances, prior to being recruited to work with HBO in 2018 as the first-ever Canadian Intimacy Coordinator to work on a film or television production.
Somers has since founded "Intimacy Coordinators Canada", the leading collective of Canadian Intimacy Coordinators, and the only Canadian IC training program accredited by SAG/AFTRA.
Passionate about the movement to improve the safety of performers while filming scenes involving nudity and/or simulated sex, Somers wrote the Closed Set Protocols that are currently being used across Canada, along with assisting in the creation of ACTRA's Best Practices document for scenes of Nudity, Intimacy & Simulated Sex in 2020.
Since 2019, Somers has been a guest speaker at the Canadian Film Centre.
Somers has been awarded two Exemplary Citizen Awards by the City of Toronto for her volunteer work within her community, and continues her involvement in local and nationwide initiatives.
Somers has since founded "Intimacy Coordinators Canada", the leading collective of Canadian Intimacy Coordinators, and the only Canadian IC training program accredited by SAG/AFTRA.
Passionate about the movement to improve the safety of performers while filming scenes involving nudity and/or simulated sex, Somers wrote the Closed Set Protocols that are currently being used across Canada, along with assisting in the creation of ACTRA's Best Practices document for scenes of Nudity, Intimacy & Simulated Sex in 2020.
Since 2019, Somers has been a guest speaker at the Canadian Film Centre.
Somers has been awarded two Exemplary Citizen Awards by the City of Toronto for her volunteer work within her community, and continues her involvement in local and nationwide initiatives.
