Daugherty, Elaine

Elaine DiFalco Daugherty is a director, intimacy choreographer, and writer who has taught at CMU since 2010.

She has led intimacy and consent sessions for KCACTF, Community Theatre Association of Michigan, MI Thespian Festival, University of Idaho, Casper College Wyoming, Millersville University, and has introduced consent practices to theatre, dance, costume, and sound classes. Her play, Watermelon in Wartime, was featured in the 2022 Voices of Truth Festival at Powerstories Theatre and earned her an Author Fellowship to The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She has published articles in Theatre Topics, Journal of Applied Arts and Health, and is currently at work on a book on consent-based practices in performing arts education.