Kasia Szustow

Kasia Szustow (IPG) is a certified intimacy coordinator, member of the European Intimacy Practitioners' Guild, facilitator of safer creative processes for performance art.

She coordinated more than 130 scenes for 22 international films and series productions in Europe (PL, DE, US, CH, RO, GR, CZ, ES), serving SAG-AFTRA stars and debuting students.

Kasia was the driving force behind the creation of the "Polish Guidelines for Intimate Scenes, 2022", which were developed through a collaborative process involving 18 representatives from various prominent Polish film organisations representing all film departments.

In collaboration with a group of experts, she co-curated the program of the International Conference for Intimacy Coordination in Berlin (2024).

She is a graduate of the Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw (MA Theatre Studies) and the Warsaw School of Economics (post-MA: Project Management, post-MA: Coaching). She was a guest lecturer at the Filmwissenschaft Institut Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (2023-2024).

Following a seven-year period in Zurich (2016-2023), she is based in Cologne, Germany.

Szustow has worked for Schauspielhaus Zürich on two productions as an Intimacy Coach for "Kurze Interviews mit fiesen Männern – 22 Arten der Einsamkeit" based on David F. Wallace, directed by Yana Ross (2021), and as Consent Coach for the production "Wilhelm Tell" by Switzerland's most important director Milo Rau (2022).

She finished one-year Safe Sets–Netflix Apprentices developing Intimacy Coordination talents for Netflix across the EMEA region. The course was a part of Grow Creative global fund created by Netflix to support Inclusion & Diversity initiatives in the industry. (Certificate 2021)