has an extensive career in international stage direction and theater education spanning three decades. James recently made her debut as the first Black Intimacy Coordinator of Broadway for Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over. She served as Intimacy Director and Sensitivity Specialist^® for the Off-Broadway productions of Moises Kaufman’s Seven Deadly Sins by Tectonic Theatre Project, Seize the King produced by Classical Theatre of Harlem, Twilight Los Angeles: 1992 at Signature Theater, F*cking A at Fordham University and most recently for Dominique Morisseau's Confederates. On the West Coast, James provides consultation and intimacy coordination for television and film. Her company, Intimacy Coordinators of Color, has partnerships with Adelphi University, New York University, Columbia University, American Conservatory Theater, Brown University, Trinity Repertory Theater, Harvard and A.R.T./New York.