PRODUCTION SERVICES
PRODUCTION WELFARE
Industry & Production Welfare
Steph is Australia’s leading specialist in Production, Performance and Industry Welfare across Scripted and Unscripted content. Services include Production Welfare RMPs, Intimacy Coordination, Production & Set Welfare Education, on and off-set Counselling, Mental Health/DEI/Access/Audience and Market Advisory. Steph is a multi-skilled Performance Coach, Intimacy Coordinator, Psychotherapist, Writer-Director-Producer and Dramaturge. Steph is a Member of MEAA Equity Wellness Committee, has sat on panels for MIFF (Innovation & Inclusion), CALD (DEI in Communities), Screen Queensland (Australian Screen Mental Health), WIFT Australia (Covid Welfare) and the St Kilda Film Festival (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion). During the pandemic Steph wrote the Welfare section for the Australian Covid Safe-Set Guidelines, and has been a leader in industry welfare education for stakeholders such as The National Theatre Drama School, Swinburne University, Opera Australia, WAAPA, JMC Academy, WIFT Australia, QUT and Griffin Film School.
Intimacy Coordination
Steph has been a leader in intimacy direction and coordination since 2017, developing ethical practice methods as part of her masters research in 2015. Steph was the first intimacy coordinator in Australia, working on bespoke requests before #metoo brought to the foreground the need for global change within on-set practices. Recognised for her ground-breaking work in industry welfare, Steph has shaped as an IC the most complex of vulnerable content, working in close collaboration with local and international performers. Steph is Co-Founder of the Australian Intimacy Coordinators Network, sharing her knowledge through IC internships, she is a member of the MEAA Equity Wellness Committee, and is a Screen Australia selected Intimacy Coordinator. Productions include 5 Bedrooms (Paramount+), Itch 2 (ABC), films such as Girl At The Window with Rahda Mitchell, My Eyes (Wise Goat), Petrol (ArenaMedia), The Eastfield Excorcism and many more, stage shows include The Effect, Funny Thing Happened on The Way to the Forum, Gruesome Playground Objects.
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 Coach
COACHING SERVICES
Role & Set 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 artists like Hugh Jackman and a network of directors and actors.
Wellbeing
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.