Tonia Sina

Intimacy Director Pioneer

  • Between the Lines, University of Oklahoma

  • Hamlet, Great River Shakespeare Festival

  • Bug, Steppenwolf Theatre Company

  • Darling Grenadine, Marriott Theatre

  • Spring Awakenings, University of Oklahoma

  • Bug, Steppenwolf Theatre

  • Hamlet, Great River Shakespeare Festival

  • Les Liaison Dangereuses, Reduxion Theatre

  • The Angelina Project, Theatre OCU

What People Are Saying

“I’ve had the privilege of working with Tonia in many capacities over the years. As a playwright, director, teacher, and actor, she excels at creating performances that are both evocative and tasteful. She brings warmth, collaboration, and sensitivity to every project, guided by a passionate spirit and remarkable courage. Even as a graduate student at VCU, Tonia was ahead of her time, pioneering intimacy coordination practices long before the field was fully established.”

-James Manno

“The best stage fight of my life was with Tonia Sina at Shakespeare in Delaware Park in Buffalo. Her choreography utilized the set, it told a story, it was emotionally and thematically flawless, and I've not been in a fight scene half as good since.”

- Aaron Randolph

“Tonia created the safest of spaces for me to jump into a brand new world of work where I felt so protected to not just learn, but inspired to then be a change in the intimacy world. She is the best, plain and simple, but no one is a harder or more compassionate worker when it comes to safeguarding everyone in the room.”

- Anna Knight