Biography

Lara Dale trained from early childhood in theater, classical music and ballet. Though acting was her first passion, she fell in love with choreography and began creating works for ballet and modern dance before moving to NYC to pursue a career in the performing arts.

A serious dance injury sent her on a very different path. She lucked into a rent-controlled apartment in Alphabet City and was Administrative Assistant to the late Howard Guttenplan, Director of Millennium Film Workshop (then the East Village epicenter of a Super 8 and 16MM independent revolution).

She saw advanced screenings of Spike Lee's "She's Gotta Have It", Susan Seidelman's "Desperately Seeking Susan", Todd Haynes' "Superstar", Tom DiCillo's "Living In Oblivion" and Jim Jarmusch's "Stranger Than Paradise," and was so inspired by their raw talent, hard work, innovation, and success.

Applying the rigorous discipline and meticulous timing of classical music and ballet, Lara apprenticed in 2010 with Emmy Award winning Foley Artist Ellen Heuer of Wildfire Studios, at the newly opened post facility in Breaking Bad territory in New Mexico.

After fifteen years of mastering her craft, she now joins forces with Jason Wolf, founder and CEO of Tripletone Studios in ABQ, and together they create sonic joy, high drama, and nail-biting horror, while continuing to support visionary indie films.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

Lara Dale is a survivor of severe sexual harassment while filming on a remote Anasazi Ruin in Northern New Mexico in 1989. She managed to escape the set but was subsequently blacklisted and was unable to work professionally as a film actress again.

In 2017, prior to the Weinstein scandal, she founded the Safe Sets® Initiative in order to create stronger Industry protections for vulnerable talent and crew on remote location productions. The RUST tragedy adds an even greater sense of urgency to her mission.

Her harrowing experience is referenced in the pioneering documentary "Brainwashed: Sex, Camera, Power" by famed feminist and filmmaker Nina Menkes, which premiered at Sundance on January 22, 2022. It made the "Top Ten Best Documentaries of 2022 List" of IMDB Founder and CEO Col Needham, and premiered in Europe in 2023 to great critical and audience acclaim.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

Trained from a very young age in classical ballet and later transitioned into choreography for modern dance. Laid the groundwork for becoming a Foley Artist, as timing and an ability to think with your feet are essential.

Assistant to the late Howard Guttenplan at Millennium Film in the East Village in the 1980s. Got to see first screenings of early works by Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan), Jim Jarmusch (Stranger than Paradise), and Tom DiCillo (Living in Oblivion). Got to see the premiere of Todd Haynes' "Superstar" before it was removed from circulation in 1990.

Favorite independent Foley project is Drunktown's Finest, a feature film written and directed by Sydney Freeland, a transgender Navajo native mentored by Robert Redford at Sundance for several years.

Foley is sonic animation. The art of enhancing character through the skilled manipulation of inanimate objects.

The reason it's called an art and I'm an artist, as opposed to, like, a technician, is because you have to be able to literally think on your feet. I mean, that to me is the definition of a Foley Artist. Not only do you have to have the timing - a lot of Foley Artists are dancers or some type of athletic background - but you've also got to be able to really cite a quality that the actor is producing. So I have to capture the quality of the actor as well, and the great Foley Artists are known for an almost actorly, artistic quality to their sounds.