Fight, Intimacy, Movement Director
Yarit is a Certified Intimacy Director, Fight Director and Movement Director working across theatre, musical theatre, dance and opera.
Her multifaceted experience and training in movement disciplines informs her practice and how she works with companies. Her training includes: contemporary dance/dance theatre (Trinity LABAN), Jacques Lecoq’s physical theatre (LISPA/Arthaus Berlin), BASSC Certified Stage Combat Teacher and IDC Certified Intimacy Director & Intimacy Coordinator, historical martial arts and somatic movement.
She is a pioneering figure in the UK’s intimacy direction community contributing to guidelines by Equity and Stage Directors UK. She originated the role of the ‘intimacy director’ in London’s West End’s Death of A Salesman and since then she’s also supported musicals, dance and opera companies.
Yarit is co-director of Moving Body Arts and was awarded a Fellow of Rose Bruford College. She is an Ensemble Associate Artist of The Shakespeare’s Globe and a Globe Higher Education Practitioner teaching movement, stage combat and intimacy.
Yarit’s current work includes Othello (Theatre Royal Haymarket) and upcoming Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Oxford Playhouse).
Theatre credits include: Paldem (Edinburgh Festival); Fat Ham, The Winter’s Tale (RSC); Unicorn (Garrick Theatre); The Duchess (of Malfi) (Trafalgar Theatre); Fiddler on The Roof (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre/Barbican/National tour); The Years, Look Back In Anger, Roots, Daddy A Melodrama (Almeida Theatre); Hadestown (West End), Hamilton (West End); A Strange Loop (Barbican); Why Am I So Single (West End); The Glass Menagerie (West End); Death Of A Salesman (West End/ Young Vic); Rockets and Blue Lights (National Theatre); , Othello, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, Richard II, Hamlet, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Band’s Visit, Love & Other Acts Of Violence (Donmar Warehouse); The Homecoming; The Second Woman, Changing Destiny, A Face In The Crowd, Wild East (Young Vic); A View From The Bridge (Headlong/Chichester Festival); Black Superhero, This Is Not Who I Am (Royal Court); Of Mice and Men, Becoming Nancy (Birmingham Rep); Miss Myrtle’s Garden, Old Bridge, Strange Fruit (Bush Theatre).
Dance credits include: Weather Is Sweet, Death Trap, Rooms, Peaky Blinders (all with Rambert Dance Company); The Burnt City (Punchdrunk).
Opera include: Eugine Onegine (Royal Opera House).
