OFFICIAL BIO

STAGE

Yarit is an established fight director, intimacy director and movement director based in London UK. She has been working in live performance since 2006 first as a dancer and dance dramaturge for Hagit Yakira Dance Company. She is an Ensemble Associate of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, a BASSC Certified Stage Combat Teacher and an IDC certified intimacy director & intimacy coordinator. She is a graduate of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance, a Jacques Lecoq Physical Theatre practitioner and holds an MA in Theatre Directing (Rose Bruford College).

With the development of intimacy direction, she trained with IDI (now IDC) and started working professionally as an intimacy director in 2017 on Little Voice at Park Theatre and in 2018 on Three Sisters (Arrows & Traps Theatre). In 2019 she was the first Intimacy Director in London's West End (credited for Death of A Salesman transfer starring Sharon D. Clarke and Wendell Pierce). Stage credits include West End, National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Shakespeare's Globe, Almeida, Young Vic, Royal Exchange Manchester, Bush Theatre, Storyhouse, Gate Theatre, Boulevard Theatre with upcoming work for the National Theatre and Donmar Warehouse.

FILM / TV

Yarit is an IDC certified Intimacy Coordinator and one of the leading Intimacy Coordinators in the UK. She transferred her intimacy direction stage practice to the screen in early 2019 working on Channel 4's Drama Adult Material (BAFTA Nominee for Best Mini-Series). For more information on her intimacy coordination & services see Moving Body Arts.

Credits include Adult Material (Channel 4), The Nevers (HBO), Spanish Princess 2 (Starz), Domina (Sky TV), The Wheel Of Time (Amazon/Sony), White Lines (Netflix), The Girlfriend Experience 3 (Starz), Starstruck (HBO Max/BBC 1), Cheaters (BBC), Carnival Row 2 (Amazon/Legendary), Close To Me (Channel 4), Bridgerton (cover IC, Netflix), Code 404 (Sky), Becoming Elizabeth (Starz), Pistol (FX), Atlanta (FX), Life After Life (BBC), Superhoe (BBC) and more.

UK INDUSTRY

To support the development of Intimacy Coordination in the UK's entertainment industry, Yarit opened the first fully funded mentoring scheme for intimacy coordinators from under-represented groups funded by the Film & TV Charity Fund and supported by ScreenSkills & Moving Body Arts. In addition, in August 2020 she helped to establish Bectu's Intimacy Coordinators Branch which she currently chairs.

Yarit is an ongoing contributor to many UK intimacy guidelines available online for employers as well as performers:

- Directors UK's 'Directing Nudity & Simulated Sex'

- Stage Directors UK's Intimacy Direction Guidelines

- Equity Intimacy Working Group's guidance for performers and engagers.

Between 2017-2020 Yarit was the education manager and one of the original co-founders of Theatrical Intimacy which later merged as a branch of IDI in the UK "Intimacy Directors International UK" (IDI-UK) and currently known as Intimacy For Stage & Screen. As part of her work, she co-created the accreditation programme for intimacy directors working in live performance in the UK.

COMPANY

Her company MOVING BODY ARTS offers choreography & training services to the entertainment industry in UK & EU.

ASSOCIATIONS

Associate Movement, Intimacy & Stage Combat Tutor of The Royal Academy Of Dramatic Arts (RADA)

Ensemble Associate Artist of Shakespeare's Globe

Steering Group member of the Movement Directors Association

Associate Artist of the Director's Cut Theatre Company

Associate Artist of Hera Opera Company

TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Currently visiting tutor at: RADA, Rose Bruford College, East 15 Acting School, Italia Conti, ArtsEd, Guildhall School Of Music & Drama, Fourth Monkey and at the HE department of the Shakespeare's Globe.