Teniece Divya Johnson, MA (Lehigh University, Sociology), MFA (University of Florida), is a student of life, stunt performer and certified intimacy coordinator and intimacy director for television, film and stage.
They are a Creative Team Member of (IDC) Intimacy Directors & Coordinators and some of Teniece's credits include HBO’s Succession, Lovecraft Country, RAMY, HULU's Wu-Tang: An American Saga, FX's POSE, Run The World, The Hunters on Amazon, West Side Story, directed by Steven Spielberg, and the limited series The Underground Railroad, written and directed by Barry Jenkins.
Teniece is also honoured to have worked with Claire Warden on Slave Play at the Golden Theater and NYTW and they love working with the students at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts as a fight director and intimacy director.
Teaching and performing for over a decade, Teniece uses a multidisciplinary approach to cultivating self-healing and creative wellness practices. Driven to keep actors safe but the story dangerous, Teniece’s devised theatre experience, movement training and spoken word poetry lends for a natural curiosity and commitment to honouring and dissecting what is on the page in order to develop a captivating movement dialogue of action and reaction.
They are also an outspoken advocate for diversity, inclusivity, LGBTQ community and consent culture.