Safety on Set - Stunts & Intimacy Coordination
Join our talk with professional stuntman Dennis Lafond and Intimacy Coordinator Tammy Everett. This panel discussion will engage the topics of safety on set, the jobs of stunt and intimacy coordinators and the future of set safety.
Panelists: Dennis Lafond, Tammy Everett
DENNIS LAFOND
Dennis Lafond has been a professional stuntman and fight coodinator for the last 16 years. He has doubled the likes of Will Smith, RZA along with other A-list actors.
His Credits include: Immortals, the X-MEN series, Suicide Squad, The Boys, Arrow, the 100, SEE and fight coordinator for Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery (just to name a few).
Born and raised in Ottawa, On, Dennis is still active in the industry today and one of the first accredited stuntman in the nation's capital.
TAMMY EVERETT
Tammy is a singer, actor, fight director, and intimacy director based out of Ontario, who has performed in Canada, the USA, and Europe. She has worked in theatre, musical theatre, film, television, recording studios, and has two albums released with the band, Under Heaven. She graduated with a BFA (spec. honours Music) from York University before attending the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts.
Favourite acting credits include Comedy of Errors (Luciana-Urban Bard), Judgement Control (Actor/Stunt-Gary Foo Productions), Patience (Lady Ella-Toronto Operetta Theatre), Side By Side By Sondheim (Woman 2-Sonus Stage Productions), The Apartment Job (Actor- Interiority Entertainment), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena-Urban Bard), Anyone Can Whistle (Talk is Free Theatre), Twelfth Night (Maria-Urban Bard), I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Woman 1 – MudPuddle Productions).