Neha Vyaso

Neha Vyaso is a Mumbai-based actor-director working across film, theatre and performance. As an actor, they gravitate to complex characters and bold, risky choices, roles that unsettle a room and spark conversation. Trained in the Eric Morris System, psychophysical acting and clowning, they work from the body outward, drawing on poetry, somatic practice and their evolving contact improvisation work, moving between screen, Shakespeare and clown with equal appetite for play.

They are India’s first IDC-certified intimacy director, and hold a dual certification from IPEC, and brought intimacy direction into the Hindi film industry, where BBC World Service featured them as a pioneering artist crafting consent. As founder of BraveSpaces Creative India, they lead BSAIPS, a certification programme training intimacy professionals across India, Singapore and Indonesia through their Asia First Pedagogy. They have spoken at the IDC Summit and AFIS NAPnet on topics shaping the work.

As a director, they are making their short film debut. One question runs through all of it: what becomes possible when a room is secure enough for the truth to arrive in the body. They champion psychological security and brave spaces in film, and carry consent-forward practice beyond the intimacy scene.