Judi Lewis Ockler

Judi Lewis Ockler is a professional intimacy director, fight director, stunt performer, teaching artist and clown.  Her directing work has found collaboration with Signature Theater, WP theater, New World Stages, The Flea Theater, Classic Stage, Dixon Place, Here Arts Space, The Wild Project and Williamstown Theater Festival.  Stunt credits include feature films The Wolf of Wall Street, Enchanted, Across the Universe, and television shows 30 Rock, Gotham, Big Dogs, House of Cards, Boardwalk Empire.  She is a founding member of Kendall Cornell’s Clowns Ex Machina, an all female clown troupe in residency at LaMama, ETC.  She holds a BFA from the New School, NYC and is a certified Intimacy Director with Intimacy Directors International and Intimacy Directors and Coordinators.    She teaches/directs intimacy and violence in performance at Tisch Drama, The Meisner Studio, Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theater School, National Theater Institute,The New School for Drama, HB Studios, Stella Adler Studios,The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, NYC.  

Drama Electives: Introduction to Intimacy Training