Yehuda Duenyas

Yehuda duenyas

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  • Timeline

    Jan 1998 - Jan 2002

    Technical Director

    chashama
    May 2001 - Jun 2010

    Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director

    The National Theater of the United States of America
    Jan 2007 - now

    Intimacy Coordinator and Trainer

    Freelance
    Jan 2011 - Dec 2019

    Chief Experience Officer, Founder

    Mindride LLC
    Aug 2011 - Apr 2012

    Experience Designer, Creative Consultant

    Walt Disney Imagineering
    Feb 2014 - May 2014

    Experiential Director, Production Designer

    LOGAN & SONS
    Sept 2014 - Dec 2015

    Experiential Director

    Persuade & Influence
    Jul 2015 - now

    Certified Intimacy Coordinator and Director

    Intimacy Professionals Association
    Aug 2015 - Oct 2015

    Intimacy Director

    The Flea Theater
    Oct 2015 - Dec 2015

    Producer / Creative Director

    Alpine Labs
    May 2016 - Jan 2020

    Experiential Director

    m ss ng p eces
    Apr 2017 - Dec 2020

    Senior Producer / Creative Director

    Fight of the Living Dead
    Apr 2018 - May 2018

    Creative Director

    Technology, Humans And Taste LLC
    Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

    Intimacy Director/Coordinator

    Baker's Dozen web series
    Jan 2020 - now

    Experiential Director/Creative Director

    UNIT9
    Dec 2020 - Oct 2023

    Intimacy Coordinator

    Netflix
    Jun 2021 - Feb 2022

    Intimacy Coordinator

    HBO
    Current Company
    Oct 2022 - now

    Co-Founder

    CINTIMA: Intimacy Coordinator Training
  • About me

    Emmy Award-winning Experiential Director, SAG-AFTRA certified and accredited Intimacy Coordinator and Trainer

  • Education

    • Rensselaer polytechnic institute

      2009 - 2011
      Mfa electronic arts

      MFA Electronic Arts & Interactive Technologies.

    • Skidmore college

      1992 - 1996
      Bachelor of science - bs theater, english
  • Experience

    • Chashama

      Jan 1998 - Jan 2002
      Technical director

      Converted four commercial properties on 42nd Street into multi-use artist spaces including performance venues, fine art studios, dance studios, and gallery space. Responsibilities included scheduling and supervising build crews, coordinating load-ins and load-outs, and overall organization of the technical production process for over 80 productions across 20 discreet spaces inside of four commercial properties.

    • The national theater of the united states of america

      May 2001 - Jun 2010
      Co-founder/co-artistic director

      Founder and co-artistic director of the multi-award winning theater collaborative NTUSA in New York, NY.

    • Freelance

      Jan 2007 - now
      Intimacy coordinator and trainer
    • Mindride llc

      Jan 2011 - Dec 2019
      Chief experience officer, founder

      Mindride creates startlingly unique immersive experiences. They combine a deeply human creative vision with a bleeding edge technological perspective. Mindride’s team has worked in collaboration with clients such as GOOGLE/YOUTUBE, WALT DISNEY IMAGINEERING, AUDI, R/GA, THE AD COUNCIL, MGM/UA, and ALPINE LABS among others. Mindride recently created AIRFLOW, a 4D Virtual Reality flying experience which has been featured on Nerdist, Engadget, and other media. In 2015, Mindride designed the production, live experience, and technology for the LOVE HAS NO LABELS campaign which won 21 awards and has over 110 million views online. Mindride is also known for creating THE ASCENT, a mind-controlled flying experience driven by the world’s first EEG bio-interface for a physical ride. Their hybrid techniques for next-gen story-telling emerge from their passion and 20+ years of experience in the arenas of large-scale events, interactive technology, ride-design, gaming, virtual and augmented reality, neuroscience, physical computing, and creating visionary immersive theatrical experiences around the world. To conjure the most transcendent human experiences, they are venturing a step beyond the possible, into the impossible. Show less

    • Walt disney imagineering

      Aug 2011 - Apr 2012
      Experience designer, creative consultant

      Worked with Research and Development, Blue Sky and Creative Interactive on new form immersive narrative experiences.

    • Logan & sons

      Feb 2014 - May 2014
      Experiential director, production designer

      Yehuda was the Experiential Director and Production Designer for the Audi A3 #paidmydues event produced by LOGAN & SONS, Alexei Tylevich, Creative Director.http://www.audia3presents.com/

    • Persuade & influence

      Sept 2014 - Dec 2015
      Experiential director

      Experiential Director at Persuade & Influence, specializing in next-gen storytelling, live immersive experience, connected content, and interactive technologies.

    • Intimacy professionals association

      Jul 2015 - now
      Certified intimacy coordinator and director
    • The flea theater

      Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
      Intimacy director

      Yehuda choreographed the sex scenes for the premiere of Thomas Bradshaw's show "Fulfillment" in New York City and Chicago.

    • Alpine labs

      Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
      Producer / creative director

      Yehuda is a Producer and also the Creative Director for Fight of the Living Dead Season 1, a new 8-episode YouTube reality experience starring 10 top YouTube content creators. FOTLD 2 is a 3-day immersive Zombie-survival-reality-experience where content creators fight to survive a Zombie apocalypse with as many team members intact as possible.

    • M ss ng p eces

      May 2016 - Jan 2020
      Experiential director

      Experiential Director at M ssng P eces, specializing in next-gen storytelling, multi-cam livestreams, live immersive experiences, VR, AR, connected content, and interactive technologies.

    • Fight of the living dead

      Apr 2017 - Dec 2020
      Senior producer / creative director

      Yehuda is back for another season as Senior Producer and Creative Director at Fight of the Living Dead, a 3 day immersive Zombie survival experience created for YouTube stars.

    • Technology, humans and taste llc

      Apr 2018 - May 2018
      Creative director
    • Baker's dozen web series

      Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
      Intimacy director/coordinator
    • Unit9

      Jan 2020 - now
      Experiential director/creative director
    • Netflix

      Dec 2020 - Oct 2023
      Intimacy coordinator

      Netflix + Ryan Murphy Productions

    • Hbo

      Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
      Intimacy coordinator
    • Cintima: intimacy coordinator training

      Oct 2022 - now
      Co-founder
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Mental health first aid usa

      National council for behavioral health
      Oct 2019
    • Mfa electronic arts/interactive technologies

      Rensselaer polytechnic institute
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Yehuda Duenyas
      Emmy® Award Television Academy of Arts and Sciences Sep 2016 Mindride is honored to receive a 2016 Prime Time Emmy for Outstanding Commercial alongside R/GA and Persuade for creating Love Has No Labels.
    • Awarded to Yehuda Duenyas
      11 Clio Awards for Love Has No Labels Clio Awards 2015 Sep 2015 The spot we designed and produced for the Ad Council and RGA won 11 Clio Awards:Gold - DigitalGold - Integrated CampaignGold - Out of HomeGold - Social MediaSilver - Branded EntertainmentSilver - Engagement/ExperientialSilver - InnovativeSilver - Public RelationsSilver - Use of MusicBronze - DirectBronze - Film
    • Awarded to Yehuda Duenyas
      8 Cannes Lions for Love Has No Labels Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Jun 2015 The spot we created and produced for the Ad Council and RGA won a record 8 Cannes Lions!The "Love Has No Labels"​ campaign set records with 110 million online views, and is currently the second most watched social and community activism ad of all time, behind "Kony 2012."It won eight Lions picking up a gold and two silvers in Direct, a silver in Outdoor, a bronze in Titanium & Integrated and three more bronzes in Cyber (including one for spatial tech).
    • Awarded to Yehuda Duenyas
      Auggie Award - Best in Show Augmented World Expo, UploadVR Jun 2015 Our VR Flying experience AIRFLOW won an Auggie Award for Best in Show at the Augmented World Expo 2015.
    • Awarded to Yehuda Duenyas
      President's Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatre Lower Manhattan Cultural Council May 2010 The National Theater of the United States of America wins the LMCC's sustained excellence award
    • Awarded to Yehuda Duenyas
      Village Voice OBIE Award 2006 Village Voice May 2006 The National Theater of the United States of America wins the Village Voice Obie Award, 2006, for Outstanding Production Design, Abacus Black Strikes Now (NTUSA/P.S. 122)
    • Awarded to Yehuda Duenyas
      2 Facebook Awards for "Love Has No Labels" Facebook The spot we created and produced for the Ad Council and RGA won two Facebook Awards, one for "Integrated Campaign,"​ and another for "Facebook for Good."