Cara Rawlings (she/her) is Associate Professor of Movement and Acting in The School of Performing Arts at Virginia Tech. She was formerly on faculty at the University of Miami where she taught movement, acting, and stage combat. Rawlings has worked as a teacher, fight director, intimacy director and dance choreographer in venues across the U.S. and Europe. Most recently, she served as Intimacy Director for all six productions in the 2022 Contemporary American Theatre Festival in Shepherdstown, WV.  Rawlings is a Certified Stage Combat Instructor with The Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD). Rawlings is a Certified Intimacy Director and Teaching Artist with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC).  She is a member of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) and has served on the boards of Virginia Theatre Association (VTA) and Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC). Ms. Rawlings holds a Master of Fine Arts in Movement Pedagogy and Fight Direction from Virginia Commonwealth University.