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Jessica Steinrock is an American intimacy coordinator.
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Jessica Steinrock is an American intimacy coordinator.
Steinrock earned a bachelor's degree in advertising from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 2014. [1] [2] She went on to receive a master’s degree in theater at the school, graduating in 2017. [2] [3] Her focus was on consent in improvisational theater. [4] [5] She also completed a PhD from the University of Illinois, graduating in 2020. [2]
Steinrock's interest in intimacy coordination came from her background in improv comedy, where she was sometimes touched or talked about in ways she found uncomfortable. [3] [4] [2] Her first work as an intimacy coordinator was for an orgy scene in the TNT show Claws . [3]
Steinrock is the chief executive of Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, which was founded in 2019. [6] [7] The organization is "the leading training and accreditation organization in the field," according to The New York Times. [3] In this role, Steinrock participated in a working group for the Screen Actors Guild to update the group's safety standards for intimate scenes. [3]
Steinrock's work in television has included TNT's Animal Kingdom, [8] Netflix’s Never Have I Ever, Hulu's Little Fires Everywhere , HBO's Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, [9] and Showtime's Yellowjackets. [1] [3] [7] She also worked on the set of 2021 film Moxie. [1] [4]
Steinrock is on SAG-AFTRA's intimacy coordinator registry. [10]
In April 2022, Steinrock started a TikTok account. [3] [8] Her content includes education about her job, including answering questions and showing modesty garments, [8] [9] and breakdowns of sexual scenes in popular television shows and films. [1] [3] By August 2022, she had accumulated 400,000 followers and 9.2 million likes; [1] by 2023, this had increased to 40 million likes. [5]
Steinrock is based in Chicago. [1] She met her husband, Zev, a fight director and an associate theater professor at the University of Illinois, through her work as an intimacy coordinator. [3] [4] [2]
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