- Lisa Dalton worked extensively in New York from 1976-1989 in theatre, film and television. In 1976, she co-founded the Bond Street Theatre- still active today. Here, her skills as a clown, mime, stage combat artist led to performances at Lincoln Center and various international festivals. This also was the ground work for a ten year career in Stunts, under her original name Lisa Loving. Notable TV appearances included doubling Madonna on Saturday Night Live and playing Zena, a Hit woman on As the World Turns under the employ of David McCallum. In the 1980's, Lisa was a sergeant of the Englewood N. J. Special Police Unit under her married name Kerman. Additional Stunt credits include Highlander, Ghostbusters, Deathwish 3. She was profiled on TV on Best Talk in Town, PM Magazine and appeared on several talk shows, including as a guest with Bill Boggs Midday Live. As a comedienne/impersonator, Lisa performed for many celebrity events with Donald Trump, Mayor Ed Koch, Joan Lunden, Friar's Club, Tavern on the Green, Copacabana, Studio 54 and more. In 1988, Lisa and actor husband Ken Kerman relocated to Los Angeles, where Lisa Founded the Michael Chekhov Connection (www.chekhov.net), teaching acting in London, Moscow, Berlin, New York, France, Brussels and throughout the US at special conferences. Two documentaries which contain extensive contributions by Lisa Dalton on the Chekhov technique are available at her website. She won numerous awards for directing and producing public access television, including 3 Hometown Awards and was a finalist in the AFI National Video Festival. She hosted/co-produced the Casting Corner Series now available at www.chiptaylor.com. She has directed several short films including Houston Festival Bronze Winner "Birds of a Feather" and 2003 Dreamworks Employee Film fest Favorite: "The Shakespeare Guy". She currently acts and teaches in the Los Angeles area and at universities and festivals around the world. She is an ordained minister with a wholistic life coaching practice that utilizes spiritual gestures - a new technique of unifying body, mind and spirit to achieve greater abundance of health, time, space and relationship. She is the proud grandmother of 4, plays celebrity golf for many charities and has travelled in all 50 states on her motorcycle!- IMDb Mini Biography By: Lisa Dalton
- Lisa Loving, currently acting and teaching as Lisa Dalton, has sustained a career in entertainment since 1976, in New York, Los Angeles and Texas. Behind the camera, Lisa has shot, produced or directed a dozen independent films ranging from documentary (From Russia To Hollywood, Michael Chekhov, the Dartingon Years) to shorts (Birds of a Feather, Clazion Catches Light, Shakespeare Guy, The Connextion) to features (Regina Nox). Lisa is a master teacher of the Michael Chekhov Acting technique having taught in Moscow, London, Paris, Brussells, Berlin, Caribbean, and around the US.
Her stunt career began when she was cast as a photo double for Tina Louise and Julie Haggerty in "The Day the Women Got Even" in 1980. In 1976, Lisa was a co-founding member of the Bond Street Theatre of NY. There, she honed her skills in gymnastics, acrobatics, mime, stage combat, juggling, pratfalls, mask and other physical styles of avant garde theater. These skills served to prepare Lisa for her work in the stunt field. Lisa hoped that her stunt work would increase her acting opportunities and it did do that for a period of time. Martial Art fans still enjoy her performance at Sho 'nuf's woman in Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon.
She did stunts for several soap operas including As the World Turns, Guiding Light, One Life to Live. Lisa's first television work in 1978 or so, was 5 episodes on "The Edge of Night" as a police cadette possibly while Margart Colin's character was attending the Police Academy. Lisa later doubled Margaret Colin when she played a savvy detective on Margaret's own show "Legwork".
In 1988, after several of Lisa's friends were killed in the industry, and Lisa began to experience stunt work as a limitation to her acting career, Lisa relocated to Los Angeles, changed her name to Lisa Dalton and focused herself on acting, teaching and directing. Lisa returned to NY to do a stunt for Ally Walker on "True Blue" in 1989 and sustained a severe back injury. Several years later, she performed one more "simple" stunt on "Three Wishes" with Patrick Swayze. When another crew member was seriously injured, it was clear to Lisa that the simplest of stunts are still a danger she is no longer willing to uptake.
Lisa Dalton now takes life more easily, in Texas, she has shot martial indie "The Sensei" with Diana Lee Inosanto, "Midnight Clear" with Stephen Baldwin and 3 webisodes of Lifetime's "Inspector Mom" with Danica McKellar. She plays golf with actor/hubby Ken Kerman at numerous celebrity charity events, travels on her BMW motorcycle, and enjoys teaching, singing and visiting her step-children and grandchildren. She also is a Life Coach, Inspirational Speaker and part time faculty of the University of Southern Maine.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Lisa Loving aka Lisa Dalton
- SpouseKen Kerman(? - September 9, 2009) (his death, 2 children)
- Adjunct faculty at Texas Christian University teaching Michael Chekhov Techniques. She is teaching the late June Teacher Certification Track for the 15th Annual Chekhov Theatre Institute at the University of Southern Maine.
- Finished shooting "Inspector Mom" in August and traveling and teaching in Los Angeles and Denver. Also working on publishing "Anthony Quinn's Life and Encounter's with Michael Chekhov" in DVD form. Soon to also release an Actors Workout DVD "Lisa Dalton's Rock 'N Roll Review of Michael Chekov's Chart for Inspired Acting". Taught in LA and will again in late Oct.
- Lisa and her husband Actor Ken Kerman worked on "Midnight Clear" with the referral by her colleague and client K Callan, in Roanoke,TX. Currently directing a one man show "Hug" with author/speaker/actor Sean LeClaire.
- Relocated from Burbank, CA to Ft. Worth Texas. Focusing on publishing DVD's of her series of interviews with students of Michael Chekhov and Training DVD's about the Michael Chekhov Technique. Still maintaining The Chekhov Connection Studio in Los Angeles and teaching there bi-monthly.
- After teaching in Los Angeles in May and June, Lisa taught at the University of Southern Maine, and flew back to Texas to shoot "Inspector Mom" for Lifetime.
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