Stage Combat Teaching Experience
Van Arts, Full Time Acting Program, Vancouver, BC October 2008-April 2010
Stage Combat Instructor
Taught students combat safety while choreographing and directing unarmed fights in a variety of genres. Required knowledge of combat safety, body awareness, ability to effectively communicate with students kinetically, and directorial skill.
Fight Assistant/ Director
At all of the institutions listed below, acted as J. Steven White’s assistant in teaching combat safety while choreographing and directing unarmed and armed fights in rapier, rapier and dagger, dagger, quarterstaff, and broadsword. Required knowledge of combat safety, body awareness, ability to effectively communicate with students kinetically, and directorial skill in wide range of genres. Culminated in scene presentations in a variety of genres. Worked with graduate students in all three years of NYU’s highly acclaimed Tisch School of the Arts.
New York University, Graduate School of Acting (MFA), New York, NY, January 2005-May 2006
Columbia University, Graduate School of Acting (MFA), New York, NY, Spring/Fall 2005
New York University, Undergraduate Shakespeare Intensive, New York, NY, Spring 2006
Stella Adler Conservatory, New York, NY, September 2004-December 2005
Public Theatre Shakespeare Lab, New York, NY, Summer 2005
Stage Combat Production Experience
The Pirate Queen, New York, NY 2007
Assistant Fight Choreographer
Worked with J. Steven White to choreograph and coach fight choreography for Broadway production,
Frank Gilati, dir.
Hamlet, New York, NY, Classic Stage Company, 2007
Assistant Fight Choreographer
Worked with J. Steven White to choreograph and coach fight choreography for an off-Broadway production, Brian
Kulic, dir.
Taming of the Shrew, New York, NY, The Queen’s Company, 2007
Fight Choreographer
Choreographed, integrated, and coached the fight choreography.
Measure for Measure, American Conservatory MFA, 2006
Fight Captain