Haruka Kuroda

Haruka completed the Intimacy Coordination Mentoring Scheme for under-represented groups in 2021, and she is now a BECTU registered Intimacy Coordinator. 

Haruka is also a British Academy of Dramatic Combat certified instructor and has fight directed and taught in West End, regional theatres, drama schools and workshops in the UK and Europe for over two decades.  

She was the first and currently still is the only East Asian Intimacy Professional and fight director in the UK. She is committed to providing creative working spaces for everyone, she places particular emphasis on British East and South East Asian (BESEA) artists. For her, these spaces should offer a sense of empowerment, belonging and allow anyone in them to be their authentic selves.  

Haruka’s previous work at Shakespeare’s Globe includes The Taming of the Shrew, Ghosts and Titus Andronicus. Other Fight/Intimacy Directing credits include Safe Space (Chichester Festival Theatre); Small Hotel (Bath Royal); Miss Saigon the Musical (national tour); Entertaining Mr Sloane (Young Vic);  Emma (Rose Theatre Kingston); The Talented Mr Ripley (national tour); This Bitter Earth (Soho Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun (Leeds Playhouse/Headlong); The House Party (Chichester Festival Theatre/Headlong); Underdog: The Other Other Brontë & Jekyll and Hyde (National Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (New Wolsey Theatre); Carmen & La Traviata (English National Opera); To Wong Foo The Musical (Hope Mills Theatre), Untitled: f**k m*ss s**gon play (Manchester Royal Exchange & Young Vic); The Crucible &  Miss Saigon (Sheffield Crucible); Starcrossed (Wilton’s Music Hall); The Woods (Southwark Playhouse) and All My Sons (Queens Theatre Hornchurch).  

Fight directing credits include Kinky Boots the Musical (Curve Leicester); Never Let Me Go (Rose Theatre Kingston); Of Mice and Men (Derby Theatre); Noises Off, Red Lion (New Wolsey Theatre); Ballet Shoes (National Theatre); Comedy of Errors (Mercury Theatre), Love Letters The Musical, Neville’s Island (Queens Theatre Hornchurch);  The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson (Park Theatre); Macbeth & Romeo and Juliet (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Pink Sari Revolution (Curve Theatre); Kanye the First (High Tide Festival); Beyond the Fence A New Musical (Arts Theatre West End); The Three Musketeers & Ali Baba and Forty Thieves (Illyria Theatre); Harajuku Girls (Finborough Theatre).

Intimacy Coordinating (TV & Film) credits include Protection (ITV); Rivals (Amazon Prime); Such Brave Girls, Life After Life, Superhoe, Sherwood, Strike series & Silent Witness (BBC); Culprits (Disney +), Real Friends (Sky) and History of a Pleasure Seeker (Hulu).