Amy Northup is a SAG-AFTRA recognized Intimacy Coordinator working in film and television in New York City and beyond. Her work can be seen on Showtime, HBO, CBS, NBC, Hulu, Searchlight, Paramount+, and in numerous short and feature films.

She teaches multiple workshops that seek to help folks in positions both in front of and behind the camera transition to the “new norms” of making intimate scenes safer AND more authentic. 

In addition to her work on in the film industry, she is the Community Liaison with OutSmartNYC, a non-profit dedicated to sexual violence prevention in Nightlife and Hospitality spaces. Amy has had the opportunity to co-create and co-facilitate multiple curriculums on Bystander Intervention, Sexual Violence Prevention, Consent Education, Sexual Harassment, Men and Consent, Management and Leadership training, and more. These curricula all seek to be intersectional anti-oppressive.

 She has spoken on multiple panels, testified at City Hall in favor of legislating bystander intervention training, and had the honor of being asked by the Mayor’s Office to speak at the 2019 Denim Day Rally. She was also awarded the first ever Lydia Martinez Emerging Leader in Sexual Violence Prevention in NYC by the New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault in 2019. She currently sits on the Manhattan Sexual Assault Task Force. 

 Amy is also a trained Crisis Counselor with The Crime Victims Treatment Center in NYC. Volunteer rape crisis and domestic violence advocates provide crisis counseling, emotional support and advocacy to survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence who seek treatment in emergency rooms.

Amy is also an actor and director. Her directorial feature debut What She Said (Shallow Graves Productions), is now available for purchase on Amazon and Hulu.