Mia Schachter

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Mia Schachter is an American artist, playwright, speaker, and podcaster whose work spans performance, music, storytelling, and ethical education. They are the creator of the autobiographical musical SQUIRM: A True Story, host of the Share the Load podcast, and founder of the platform Consent Wizardry. Their creative practice is rooted in embodiment, spiritual ritual, queerness, and chronic illness. They also work as a certified intimacy coordinator for television and film, advocating for ethical storytelling and actor safety.

Early life and education

Schachter was born and raised in Los Angeles. After spending ten years in New York working in theater and visual art, they returned to LA in 2018. Around that time, they received a diagnosis for chronic gut-related illness, which paralleled and informed their training in intimacy coordination. Schachter holds a BA in Philosophy from Columbia University and has an academic background in gender studies, ethics, and neuroscience.

Artistic work

Schachter describes their art and personal life as inseparable. Their creative work explores themes such as self-consent, power, illness, vulnerability, spirituality, and transformation through embodiment and narrative.

SQUIRM: A True Story

In 2025, Schachter premiered SQUIRM: A True Story, a surreal autobiographical musical, at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. The show tells the story of living with a literal and metaphorical parasite—a tapeworm—used as a vehicle to explore codependency, chronic illness, queer Jewish identity, bodily autonomy, and healing. Set across bathrooms, backyards, and a mikvah, the play blends music, puppetry, and ritual to convey spiritual and physical rebirth. Schachter wrote, composed, and performed the piece, which was later released as an album and supported by a community fundraising campaign.

Consent philosophy and intimacy coordination

Although primarily an artist and playwright, Schachter is also known as a pioneer in the field of intimacy coordination. They have worked on shows such as Blindspotting, Grey’s Anatomy, Euphoria, and Perry Mason. They have also served as an intimacy director for productions at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. As an actor advocate, they function as a buffer and liaison between actors and directors—helping realize the creative vision of a scene while protecting performers from harm and overstepping. Their role often includes coordinating across production, legal, makeup, wardrobe, and set design teams.

Schachter’s approach to consent challenges mainstream models like “enthusiastic consent,” instead proposing that consent is relational, ongoing, and contextual. They coined two foundational frameworks:

• The Consent Iceberg: The visible “yes/no” is only the tip; the bulk of consent lies beneath the surface in body language, nonverbal cues, power dynamics, and emotional context.
• The Yes-to-No Spectrum: A tool to explore whether discomfort is self-driven (empowered risk) or externally imposed (boundary-crossing).

They teach boundaries and consent classes for actors, directors, and writers—particularly focusing on scenes where power is exchanged, not only in sexual contexts. Their method is somatic, trauma-informed, anti-binary, and abolitionist.

Teaching and consulting

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Schachter adapted their in-person consent work into digital offerings, launching Consent Wizardry. They’ve taught classes for porn performers and directors through the Free Speech Coalition and developed a consent curriculum for Tinder that promotes communication tools rooted in nuance, care, and embodied awareness.

Podcast and media

Schachter hosts the Share the Load podcast, which explores grief, creativity, gender, ethics, spirituality, and self-consent. In interviews and podcast appearances—including Getting Intimate, Intellectual Erection, Is Our Love Consensual?, Sex Magic, and Share the Load—they explore consent as a spiritual and creative practice, intertwined with storytelling, somatics, and cultural transformation.

Personal life

Schachter is genderfluid, queer, and chronically ill. They use they/them pronouns and continue to live and work in Los Angeles.

External links

• \[1](https://consentwizardry.com) Consent Wizardry]
• \[2](https://www.instagram.com/consent.wizardry) Instagram: @consent.wizardry]
• [https://www.youtube.com/@ShareTheLoadPodcast Share(https://www.youtube.com/@ShareTheLoadPodcast] on YouTube

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