Chelsea Pace (she/her) is an intimacy choreographer, coordinator, and educator with over 15 years of experience staging, researching, teaching, and writing about intimacy, consent, and power. She is the Founder of Open Intimacy Creatives and is a Co-founder of Theatrical Intimacy Education. Her work appears in film and television, from student films to major motion pictures. On stage, her work ranges from academic theatre to Broadway.

Her book, Staging Sex: Best Practices, Tools, and Techniques for Theatrical Intimacy, the first book on the subject, was released in March 2020 from Routledge Publishing and has been adopted by dozens of university theatre, dance, and film programs and professional training programs internationally. 

Select theatre work includes the Broadway productions of A Strange Loop (TONY Award Best Musical), Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt (TONY Award Best Play), and K-POP; Off-Broadway at Soho Rep, INTAR, and The Shed; and Regionally at La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, American Conservatory Theatre (ACT), Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre, Folger, Woolly Mammoth, and many others. She is the Resident Intimacy Consultant and Choreographer at Signature Theatre and the Resident Intimacy Consultant at Woolly Mammoth.

Select film work includes Drive Away Dolls, The Tender Bar, Mother’s Instinct, American Sports Story, A League of Their Own, Harlem, Elsbeth, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, and Dr. Death. 

In 2021, Chelsea was honored with The Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for her work "revolutionizing rehearsal rooms and classroom spaces by implementing systems that center the most vulnerable" and for "bringing never-ending clarity and practicality to the art and process of intimacy direction."

Chelsea specializes in staging queer intimacy, complex stories of consent and/or non-consent, kink, and supporting productions with inclusive, thoughtful, professional, trauma-informed, and culturally competent choreography.