PRODUCTION SERVICES
PRODUCTION WELFARE
Entertainment Industry Welfare
Steph is Australia’s leading specialist in Production and Performance Welfare across both Scripted and Unscripted content. Services include Coordination, Planning, Advisory and Education for needs such as: Intimate & Complex Content, Risk Assessment & Mitigation Planning, Education, Counselling, Content Advisory across Mental Health, DEI, LGBTQi, Disability & Access, Cultural Coordination assistance, and all bespoke requests. Steph is also a highly experienced Acting Coach, Dramaturge and Performance Director who has helped shape some of the most difficult performance content, with local and international performers with diverse needs. Steph is proud to have developed the first intimacy coordination and set welfare services in Australia, she is the Co-Founder of the Australasian Intimacy Coordinators Network and a Member of MEAA Equity Wellness Committee. Steph’s development and research of performance and set welfare practices has been globally recognised. Her deep understanding and experience in production, performance and mental health is at the core of all her services.
Intimacy Coordinator
Steph has been a leader in ethical production practices having founded the first Australian intimacy coordination, production & set welfare service in 2017. Steph has led industry welfare education for tertiary and key stakeholders such as WAAPA, JMC Academy, the National Theatre, Opera Australia, Swinburne University, WIFT Australia, QUT and Griffin Film School, has worked on set on 5 Bedrooms (Paramount+), Itch 2 (ABC), films such as Girl At The Window with Rahda Mitchell, My Eyes Wise Petrol (ArenaMedia), The Eastfield Excorcism and many more, on stage shows such as The Effect, Funny Thing Happened on The Way to the Forum, Gruesome Playground Objects – and on panels for MIFF (Innovation & Inclusion), CALD (Diversity and Inclusion in Communities), Screen Queensland (Australian Screen Mental Health), WIFT Australia (Covid Welfare) and the St Kilda Film Festival (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion).
On-Set Welfare
Production and On-Set Welfare services adhere to the Australian Screen Industry Codes of Practice, WHS laws and regulations and state laws. A Production Welfare Framework can be integrated within a variety of settings across both independent and large scale productions to support a healthy, successful workplace for everyone. RM Planning covers physical and mental risks, welfare first aid, contracts and legals, HOD PD education, actor and crew welfare, and all coordination needs for streamlined production management. Services and packages are keenly developed to support your small or large scale production including remote shoots or touring productions.
"Steph is a leader in her field..." HUGH JACKMAN, OAM.
Performance Wellbeing
ACTOR & SCENE COACHING
Role & Scene Coaching
Steph’s deep understanding of actors, acting methods and shaping performance is comprehensive. Steph expertly guides actors to discover their most honest performances through holistic, engaged coaching. Steph’s understanding of acting craft and acting psychology is world class, with testimonials from the likes of Hugh Jackman and a network of directors and actors.
Actor Welfare
Steph teaches actors how to be ‘job fit’. Her empathic, understanding and respectful care of actors supports them in the integrated challenges of their work and personal life. Steph’s network of associates forms a complete health care team for actors and she works with production companies to provide set-based actor wellbeing supports.
Career Support
Steph supports actors and performers to engage in positive habits and coping mechanisms to build career and on-set resilience. Vulnerability sits at the core of an actor’s craft while resilience sits as a necessity for their careers. Steph expertly helps actor’s tackle issues of confidence, performance anxiety, emotional and mental health barriers to enable performers to feel professionally and personally empowered.