Stage Combat Fight Directors
An SAFD Fight Director is an individual endorsed by the SAFD to stage fights for professional theatre. SAFD Fight Directors have extensive experience working with actors, dancers and singers in professional unions including AEA & AGMA, are drawn from the ranks of our SAFD Certified Teachers and have demonstrated an ability to create safe and effective violence for the stage.
Here is a current list of our fight directors:
Fight Master
Washington
Northwest Region - AK, OR, WA
gbald@juno.com
Geoffrey Alm studied in England with John Waller at the Drama Studio in 1977, in the summer of that year he passed the British Society of Fight Directors Certification test, adjudicated by William...
Associate Chair, Head of Undergraduate Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond
Virginia
Southeast Region - AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV
adanderson@vcu.edu
804.683.3483
Coming soon.
Fight Director/Certified Teacher
Georgia
Southeast Region - AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV
jasonarmit@gmail.com
(404) 964-1957
A native of New Orleans, Jason has choreographed, performed, and instructed Stage Combat throughout the Southeast, most notably in Atlanta, Georgia. Southeastern credits include the Georgia...
Fight Director/Certified Teacher
Pennsylvania
East Central Region -DE, MD, NJ, NY, PN, DC
jvbellomo@verizon.net
A.E.A.
John Bellomo is a Director/Fight Director/Actor/Teacher and is the Artistic Director of The Maryland Shakespeare Festival. His directing Credits include: As You Like It, Romeo & Juliet, The...
Fight Master, Fight Director and Certified Teacher
Yardley
Pennsylvania
East Central Region -DE, MD, NJ, NY, PN, DC
jdavidbrimmer@aol.com
(347) 512-3932
SAG
J. David Brimmer, Violence Specialist (Fight Master, SAFD) has choreographed some stuff (Broadway: Grace, An Enemy of the People, Wit, Born Yesterday, A life in the Theatre, Speed the Plow, Come Back...
Fight Director/Certified Teacher
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
East Central Region -DE, MD, NJ, NY, PN, DC
paysonburt@gmail.com
610-389-7898
SAG/AFTRA
Payson is a professional actor, stuntman and fight director - just spent 15 years in LA, and has now moved to the Philadelphia area.
As an artist in such diverse roles as acting coach, fight...
Fight Master, Fight Director, Certified Teacher
San Diego
California
Pacific West Region - AZ, CA, HI, NV
bbyrnes123@yahoo.com
(713) 446-4004
AEA
SAFD Fight Master, Fight Director, and Certified Teacher -- Brian has taught at institutes, colleges and universities across the country. His work as a Fight Director includes New York, regional,...
Racine
Wisconsin
Great Lakes Region - IL, IN, MI, OH, WI
cheatham@uwp.edu
(262) 595-2522
AEA, SAG
Jamie Cheatham is a fight director and certified teacher. He has been teaching stage combat since 1986. His combat teaching and fight direction includes such venues as: Juilliard, Brooklyn...
Fight Master, Fight Director, Certified Teacher
New York
New York
East Central Region -DE, MD, NJ, NY, PN, DC
chinmichaelg@gmail.com
AEA, AFTRA/SAG, SDC
Michael G. Chin is a professional actor (AEA, AFTRA, SAG) as well as a sanctioned Master instructor and choreographer with the Society of American Fight Directors. He serves as fight director in...
Professor of Theater
Pennsylvania
East Central Region -DE, MD, NJ, NY, PN, DC
cconwell@uarts.edu
Fight Director, Charles Conwell, an old swashbuckler, created the stage combat program at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 1985. He is now a tenured professor at UArts where...
Fight Director Representative
Stanford
Illinois
Great Lakes Region - IL, IN, MI, OH, WI
pauldennhardt@gmail.com
(309) 530-3069
SAFD, DAI, AmSAT
Coming soon.
Fight Director
san Francisco
California
Pacific West Region - AZ, CA, HI, NV
dexfid@yahoo.com
415-810-3476
Coming soon.
Associate Professor
Tucson
Arizona
Pacific West Region - AZ, CA, HI, NV
brentg@email.arizona.edu
520-621-9402
AEA, SAG, SAFD
Coming soon.
Fight Director/ Certified Teacher
Raleigh
North Carolina
Southeast Region - AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV
jarjones@nc.rr.com
919 325-2842
Coming soon.
Fight Master
Cincinnati
Ohio
Great Lakes Region - IL, IN, MI, OH, WI
kj_jones@msn.com
AEA, SAG/AFTRA
k. Jenny Jones, a Fight Master and Certified Fight Director of the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD), stages fights and teaches throughout the U.S. and abroad. Her regional credits include...
Kelly
Staunton
Virginia
Southeast Region - AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV
colleenkhome@gmail.com
540-849-8870
AEA, ATME
Coming soon.
Fight Director
Denver
Colorado
Rocky Mountain Region - CO, ID, MT, UT, WY
geoffrey@thefightguy.com
(303) 877-2670
AEA, SDC
Geoffrey Kent is a fight director, actor, stage combat teacher and director based out of Denver, Colorado. Geoffrey is currently the President of the Society of American Fight Directors, the...
Fight Director/Certified Teacher
San Francisco
California
Pacific West Region - AZ, CA, HI, NV
richardlane@pacbell.net
415-336-8765
Coming soon.
Fight Director/Certified Teacher
Miami
Florida
Southeast Region - AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV
blecure@aol.com
305-903-9250
SDC, AEA, SAG, AFTRA, ATME
Bruce Lecure has recently directed the fights for Hamlet - Prince of Cuba, Deathtrap, Macbeth, Hamlet Redux at The Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota and Hamlet for GableStage in Miami. His work...
Fight Master and Chair, Professor VCU
Virginia
Southeast Region - AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV
dsleong@vcu.edu
As a professional theatre artist David's movement coaching and fights
scenes have been seen in many Broadway productions including Billy
Elliot,
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Carousel, The Rainmaker,...
Fight Director/Certified Teacher
Seattle
Washington
Northwest Region - AK, OR, WA
clanrdmacd@aol.com
1-206-522-2201
SAG,AFTRA,SAuFD(Australia),AFT/AFL-CIO
Coming soon.
Fight Director, Certified Teacher
Hollywood
California
Pacific West Region - AZ, CA, HI, NV
mike_mahaffey@hotmail.com
818 749-8393
SAG, AEA
Born and raised in Richland, Washington, about four and a half hours south and east of Seattle, Mike has always been interested in stage and screen combat, having choreographed his first professional...
Fight Master
Georgia
Southeast Region - AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV
mann_sj@mercer.edu
478-787-7691
AEA, SAG
Scot J. Mann is an internationally recognized and award winning Fight Director, certified through the Society of American Fight Directors and the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat. He most...
CT/FD
Brookfield
Illinois
Great Lakes Region - IL, IN, MI, OH, WI
mcfarland.john@sbcglobal.net
708-955-8767
AEA, BASSC
Coming soon.
Dr.
401 S. Cottage Grove
Illinois
Great Lakes Region - IL, IN, MI, OH, WI
rmcfarqu@uiuc.edu
773 398 9500
AGMA, AmSat
Coming soon.
Certified Teacher and Fight Director
Grand Junction
Colorado
Rocky Mountain Region - CO, ID, MT, UT, WY
tpinnow@coloradomesa.edu
575-496-2369
AEA
Coming soon.
Fight Director and Certified Teacher
New York
New York
East Central Region -DE, MD, NJ, NY, PN, DC
ron.piretti@gmail.com
917-385-9750
AEA, SAG, AFTRA, British Equity, GIAA, SDC
RON PIRETTI is a Fight Director/Certified Teacher with the SAFD. He is also an actor and director. He has staged the fights for many productions in and around New York City. Broadway and tours: "...
Fight Master/Fight Director/Certified Teacher
Rockford
Illinois
Great Lakes Region - IL, IN, MI, OH, WI
rraether@me.com
(815) 540-4717
AEA, SDC, AFTRA, SAG
Richard Raether is currently the artistic director for Artists' Ensemble (artistsensemble.org), an Equity professional theater in Illinois. He has staged violence for the Guthrie, the Roundabout...
Ms
New York
New York
East Central Region -DE, MD, NJ, NY, PN, DC
rickifights@yahoo.com
212-874-7408
AEA, SAG, AFTRA
An actress / playwright as well as a Fight
Director / Teacher, Ms. Ravitts has fought, taught and/or performed in
NYC, London, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Las Vegas & Washington DC.
Recent fight...
Fight Master Representative
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
East Central Region -DE, MD, NJ, NY, PN, DC
rosefights@comcast.net
(215) 802-3885
SAG & AEA
Having taught and fought in the New York and Philadelphia areas for over 25 years, Ian is proud to hold the rank of Fight Master with the Society of American Fight Directors. Ian also holds...
Fight Master
Charlotte
North Carolina
Southeast Region - AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV
richard@stagefight.com
323-209-5240
SAG, Equity, BASSC, IDCA
Richard is an award winning Fight Director. He is currently Swordmaster and Assistant Stunt Coordinator on VIKINGS, a drama series for the History Channel. Recent work includes Stunt Coordination...
Fight Director/Certified Teacher
Chicago
Illinois
Great Lakes Region - IL, IN, MI, OH, WI
npullin@depaul.edu
773-398-3034
AEA, AFTRA, SAG, AGMA
Nick Sandys is a Certified Teacher and Fight Director with The Society of American Fight Directors, and his combat choreography has been seen on Broadway (Steppenwolf's "Who's Afraid of...
Vice President
Illinois
Great Lakes Region - IL, IN, MI, OH, WI
vice-president@safd.org
(630) 330-4293
John is an SAFD Certified Teacher and Fight Director currently serving as their Vice-President. He holds a Bachelors degree in performance from Illinois State University, where he was the recipient...
Fight Director - Certified Teacher - Assistant Professor
Eaton Rapids
Michigan
Great Lakes Region - IL, IN, MI, OH, WI
traimez@gmail.com
310.213.2558
AEA-AFTRA-VASTA
Christina is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre at Michigan State University, teaching Classical Acting, Voice, and Stage Combat. Prior to relocating back to her home...
Fight Director, Certified Teacher
New York
New York
East Central Region -DE, MD, NJ, NY, PN, DC
swordplay98@hotmail.com
212 726-2400
AEA, SAG, FDC
Joe has created fights, stunts and action sequences for stage and screen for more than twenty years, working with performers such as Mia Farrow, Peter Strauss, Julia Stiles, Mary Louise Parker, and...
Fight Director
Brooklyn
New York
East Central Region -DE, MD, NJ, NY, PN, DC
tink@fights4.com
718 788-4957
AFTRA
Coming soon.
Certified Teacher/Fight Director
Grand Island
New York
East Central Region -DE, MD, NJ, NY, PN, DC
svsv55@yahoo.com
716-474-1160
Coming soon.
Certified Teacher / Fight Director
New York
New York
East Central Region -DE, MD, NJ, NY, PN, DC
rtwestley@gmail.com
SAG and SDC
Robert has performed, directed, choreographed movement and staged violence for theatres, opera houses and film companies across the country and for the past twenty-three years has worked...
Fight Master
Chicago
Illinois
Great Lakes Region - IL, IN, MI, OH, WI
dwoolley@colum.edu
3125605448
AEA
Woolley is proud to be one of the SAFD Fight Masters. A resident of Chicago, Woolley has staged over 500 productions at all of the Equity Theaters in town, including our regional Tony Award winners:...
Fight Director/Certified Teacher
Houston
Texas
Southwest Region - AR, LA, OK, NM, TX
jackyoung59@hotmail.com
610.737.5092
AEA
Coming soon.