Tshego Khutsoane
Namatshego (Tshego) Khutsoane, is an experienced creative practitioner, who brings well over a decade of performance and facilitation expertise to Intimacy Coordination.
Award-winning for acting and directing, Tshego's work encompasses performed explorations of role, expectation, and behaviour, as well as identity, sexuality, and power dynamics.
With an MBA from Henley (Reading) and a Master's in Dramatic Arts (Wits), their academic foundation strengthens their practical approach. Notably, their experience includes extensive work in physical theatre and movement-based performance, contributing to a nuanced understanding of embodied storytelling.
Their experience spans university and community-based teaching and international collaborations across Africa and Europe. Tshego's proven ability to create and nurture safer, respectful environments, coupled with their understanding of performance psychology, makes them a valuable coordinator for intimate scenes.
Tshego Khutsoane's CV
TSHEGO KHUTSOANE'S INTIMACY COORDINATION CREDITS
2025 - In Production/Post Production
Intimacy Coordinator - ONDERWERELD - ASP - Dir: Andre Stolz
2024/25 - Intimacy Coordinator Training with Safe Sets
IN ADDITION:
AS DIRECTOR | Tshego has enjoyed South Africa's National Arts Festival Standard Bank Ovation For Colored girls (2016) written by Ntozake Shange, and Standard Bank Ovation Encore Award for ChoirBoy (2018) written by Terrel Alvin McCraney.
AS EDUCATOR-FACILITATOR | From 2016 to present - Tshego works as a part-time tutor/facilitator in Performance Studies at the Market Theatre Laboratory
2018 to 2024 – corporate/business consultation from concept to implementation using performance for stage and screen to engage in critical reflection against set foci. 2018 with team of facilitators on Alliance for Food Sovereignty Project for African Food Systems and the SDGs. 2018 with The South African National Blood Service for a nationwide culture transformation project.
August 2021 - Theatre and Democracy: Building Democracy in Post-war and Post-democratic Contexts – ISBN-13 (15) 978-82-02-71182-5 – Chapter titled Redemptive Theatre: When the Performance Is in the Silence. Academic Chapter based on a Theatrical Form exploration of a concept which is informed in part by the Apartheid history efforts to 'mend' relations between peoples through the TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission). The work tells stories of people struggling with a mistake, a burden of guilt or an experience of being wronged.
April 2014 to December2014-Directed the process, production and touring of a performance work called In Your Circle The performance was developed as a conversation between young people about the intersecting themes between Sex, Sexuality and Social Circles when talking about HIV.
June 2014 to August 2014–facilitated,coordinated and presented a multi-media performanceThe Beautiful? Game on the effect of the FIFA World Cup on gender, masculinity, identity and sexual health. This performance marked the culmination of an intensive 5-week shared-research, design and devising process facilitated via email and skype between UCLA and Wits.