SERVICES
PRODUCTION & PERFORMER SERVICES
Industry Services
Steph is Australia’s leading specialist in Production, Performance and Industry Welfare across 3 key areas: Production & Set Welfare, Education & Workshops, and Coaching & Counselling. Production Welfare offers end-to end RM Welfare Plans for small to large scale productions to support a productive, healthy workplace. On-Set Welfare targets Intimacy Coordination, DEI and Access Consultancy, Set Coaching and Dramaturgy. Private Coaching Services offer ALL workers confidential Counselling. Actors are offered specialised Advanced Dual Actor Coaching. Education & Workshops offers training across Production & Performance Welfare, Content Filming and Staging, Industry WHS, and Mental Health supports.
Production & Set Welfare
Steph works collaboratively across intimacy coordination and comprehensive cast/crew production welfare. Frameworks and planning uphold industry Codes of Practice, WHS, and relevant state or country laws. Risk mitigation for content, contexts or workers covers a multitude of needs across mental and physical health. Steph also offers HOD and crew training, contract and legal support, consults for DEI and Access inclusions, and much more. Steph has been an entertainment welfare specialist since 2017, is a Screen Australia nominated Intimacy Coordinator and a key consultant on the Australian Mental Health Survey (Screen Queensland/QUT). During the pandemic Steph wrote the set welfare section for SPA’s Covid Safe-Set Guidelines followed by the first ever Production Welfare Plan for Australian TV series Itch 2 (ABC).
Production Welfare
Production Welfare
"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.