Intimacy Coordinator and Senior Lecturer at the University for Creative Arts, Pia Rickman, is one of a small but growing number of Intimacy Coordinators in UK. Pia’s prior on-set experience as an assistant director and production manager, and her current position as a lecturer of acting, gives Pia a unique angle on intimacy coordination both within education and the industry. Originally from Finland, Pia introduced intimacy coordination to Finland in August 2019 as the country’s first intimacy coordinator. Pia meets the expertise, training and experience as well as the additional requirements as outlined by SAG-AFTRA’s Standards and Protocols for the Use of Intimacy Coordinators.
She has worked across a range of screen productions in Europe including What Remains, Girl Picture (Sundance Audience Award Winner 2022), Romantic Getaway, and a multiple (7) Jussi-Awards winner in Finland, a biopic feature film Tove (2020). Over the course of her career, Pia has held workshops and presentations about the subject in the UK and internationally and she has contributed to the Finnish Film Foundation’s Guidelines on working with intimate scenes. Pia has co-founded Nordic Intimacy Coordinators and she has founded the Intimacy Practitioners’ Guild (IPG) Europe alongside fellow industry professionals. Pia is currently collaborating with BECTU in the developing of new Union standards for IC profession in the UK.
“I fell in love with the magic of film making in 2001 while I was working on a film set in Finland for the first time. I have since worked extensively in feature films, commercials and TV drama series as an assistant director, and later as a production manager. I initially trained as a director at Drama Centre, Central St. Martins (where alumni include Michael Fassbender, Tom Hardy, Anne-Marie Duff and Colin Firth). After six years in Finland, I moved back to London in 2014 to pursue a specialisation in actor training and coaching at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
I’m at my happiest when working with actors and directors, and exploring together the wonderful world of the screenplay, and how to bring the intentions on the paper alive.”
You can find out more about Pia’s work at IMDB or LinkedIn.
Pia’s visiting lecturer positions include work at
- National Film and Television School NFTS
- East 15 Acting School
- London Film Academy LFA
- Norwich University of the Arts NUA
- London Film School LFS
- University for the Creative Arts UCA
- St Mary’s University in Twickenham
- Screen School/ LCC, University the Arts London
- Independent Centre for Actor Training (ICAT)
- Arts Ed, Arts Educational Schools London
- The Actors Centre
- Actor in Session/ West London Acting School
- Identity School of Acting
- Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance
- Arcada University of Applied Sciences
- Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
- Actors Academy Finland
- TEAK Theatre Academy, Arts University Helsinki
- ELO Film School, Aalto University
- NÄTY, University of Tampere
Full CV available upon your request.
LANGUAGES: English, Finnish (fluent, native) Swedish (conversational).
Pia is able to work across UK and EU.
Any questions? Do get in touch with me!
Pia Rickman 