Jess is a fully certified intimacy coordinator, having completed the SAG-AFTRA accredited two-year training programme with Key Intimate Scenes (KIS). With a background in psychology and experience as an actor, producer and director, Jess loves combining her skills and passions to help advocate for safer artistic spaces for everyone, and to support authentic storytelling through intimacy. Jess has experience in both stage and screen intimacy coordination and is also a certified Mental Health First Aider.
If you would like to engage Jess as an intimacy coordinator/director for your next project, you can get in touch via KIS or email Jess at jstanleyintimacy@gmail.com.
Stage Credits
Cyrano, directed by Matthew Cox | Artefact Theatre | fortyfivedownstairs | 2026
As You Like It, directed by Annabelle Tudor | Melbourne Shakespeare Company | St Kilda Botanical Gardens | 2025
Titus Andronicus, directed by Kevin Hopkins & Claire Nicholls | Th’Unguarded Duncan | Theatre Works | 2025
Punk Rock, directed by Jay Wood | Lunatix Theatre | Meat Market | 2025
Footloose the Musical, directed by David Venn | DV Live | The Athenaeum | 2025
Blackrock, directed by Maddie Richards & Grace McLaughlin | Lunatix Theatre | MC Showroom | 2025
Constellations, directed by Adelle Richards | Lunatix Theatre | Bakehouse Studios | 2025
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, directed by Marni Mount | Lightning Jar Theatre Inc. | fortyfivedownstairs | 2025
Hamlet, directed by Iain Sinclair | Melbourne Shakespeare Company | fortyfivedownstairs | 2024
Romeo & Juliet, directed by Kashmir Sinnamon| Complete Works Theatre Company | Victorian Tour | 2020-2024
Macbeth, directed by Kashmir Sinnamon | Complete Works Theatre Company | Victorian Tour | 2020-2024
The Crucible, directed by Andrew Blackman | Complete Works Theatre Company | Victorian Tour | 2020-2023
Film Credits
White Glove Service, a short film written & directed by Shannon Loughnane | VCA Masters | 2025
Heaven Spot, a short film written & directed by Eleanor Newbound | VCA Masters | 2025
Downpour, a short film written & directed by Alyssa Moller | Midnight Toast | 2025
Method, a short film directed by David O’Connor | a-n studios | 2025
Hit the Jackpot!, a vertical webseries directed by Adam Ye | Luky Studios | 2025
Ostrich, a short film written & directed by Gemma Carfi | Swinburne University | 2021
