I’m not a martial artist, stunt man, expert fencer or boxer, or crack shot. Except for a smattering here and there, I have little experience with real fighting. I’m a theatre guy, an actor and director (and occasionally other things), sometimes for money but mostly for love. I stumbled on stage combat by accident, and I’ve trained in, practiced, taught, written, and talked about it nearly 26 years. I do individual and group classes and workshops, fight choreography for theatre (and a little film/video), and occasional consulting and problem-solving. I collect and sometimes rent (mostly loan) stage weapons and accoutrements. I subscribe to the SAFD view that safety is the most important element of stage combat – hence my personal motto above. More random things:

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• Member of the Society of American Fight Directors since 1999 

• ​Studied at Bay State Fencers Stage Combat Studio with SAFD instructors Stacy Eddy, Robert Walsh, Adam Mclean, Rob Najarian, and Ted Hewlett

• ​Took master classes with Tony Wolf (The Lord of the Rings) and Anthony DeLongis (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Jet Li’s Fearless)

• ​Attended intensive SAFD workshops in Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia

• ​Trained in unarmed, quarterstaff, smallsword, broadsword, knife, rapier, saber, rapier & dagger, boxing, singlestick, katana, firearms (MA LTC), krav maga, and others 

• ​Visiting Lecturer in stage combat at Curry College, Milton, MA

• ​2011 EMACT DASH Consultants’ Choice Award for Excellence in Fight Choreography 

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Places I’ve worked: Umbrella Center for the Arts, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Vokes Players, Hovey Players, Walpole Footlighters, Quannapowitt Players, Curry College, Salem Theatre Company, Wellesley Players, Bay Colony Productions, Theatre@First, Concord Players, Salem High School, Bedford High School, Kingswood Regional High School, Shrewsbury High School, Walpole Children’s Theatre, Acme Theater, Arlington Friends of the Drama, and many others.

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Shows I’ve worked on: Shakespeare in Love, Appropriate, The Play That Goes Wrong, Henry V, A View From the Bridge, The 39 Steps, She Kills Monsters, Disgraced, Cyrano de Bergerac, Mauritius, Of Mice and Men, Henry IV, Angels in America, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, American Buffalo, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Bus Stop, Hamlet, True West, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, All My Sons, The Pirates of Penzance, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Fool For Love, Born Yesterday, Closer, Sweeney Todd, I Hate Hamlet, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Dracula, The Odyssey, Les Miserables, and many others (see complete list on the Resume page)