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.
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...
A native of New Orleans, has choreographed, performed, and instructed Stage Combat throughout the Southeast including his home base; Atlanta, Georgia. Southeastern credits include the Georgia...
John is a Philadelphia based Fight Director recognized by The Society of American Fight Directors. He has choreographed violence for many regional theatre productions including Treasure Island,...
N.Y. Theater Almost an Evening, (NY premiere) Ethan Coen one acts, Atlantic Theater, Neil Pepe dir.; Spring Awakening, Atlantic Theater and Broadway, Michael Mayer dir.; Come Back, Little Sheba, (...
Payson is a professional actor, stuntman and fight director living in the Los Angeles area.
As an artist in such diverse roles as acting coach, fight director, stunt coordinator and director of...
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,...
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...
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...
Chuck Coyl has been a professional fight director for over 30 years and is immediate past president of the Society of American Fight Directors.
Recent credits include the Broadway production and...
Drew is a Fight Master and past President of the SAFD, having served on the Governing Body in one capacity or another for a total of 19 years. He is currently spending the majority of his time...
Erik Fredricksen began his professional career at the Guthrie Theatre in 1971. While there he coached Christopher Plummer in his Tony Award winning “Cyrano” duel and, after his third...
Southeast Region - AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV
dale.girard@ncstunts.com
Dale is an award winning Fight Director, Choreographer and author of the stage combat manual Actors On Guard. He is a Black Belt in Taekwondo, a founding member of the North Carolina Stuntmen’s...
As a fight director, Michael has worked in NYC at the Epic Theatre, Fluid Motion, Sonnett Rep and the Lady Cavalier Theatre Company. His national work includes productions at the Arena Stage, South...
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...
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...
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,...
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 production...
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. As a...
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...
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...
Having taught and fought in the New York and Philadelphia areas for over 25 years, Ian is proud to hold the rank of Fight Director and Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors...
Richard is an award winning Fight Director. He recently completed work as Stunt Coordinator on IRONCLAD. Other recent credits include Fight Coordinator on SHERLOCK HOLMES and also on GULLIVER'S...
Nick Sandys is a Certified Teacher and Fight Director with The Society of American Fight Directors, and his combat choreography has been seen all over the Chicago area, including at The Goodman...
J. Allen Suddeth has worked professionally for the past thirty years out of the New York area. For Broadway, he has staged fights for Gem Of The Ocean, Saturday Night Fever, Jekyll & Hyde,...
Fight Director - Certified Teacher - Assistant Professor
Grand Ledge
Michigan
Great Lakes Region - IL, IN, MI, OH, WI
traimez@gmail.com
310.213.2558
AEA-AFTRA-VASTA
Christina is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre at Michigan State University, teaching Classical Acting, Voice, and Stage Combat. Prior to relocating back to her...
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...
Woolley is proud to be one of the SAFD Fight Masters. A resident of Chicago, Woolley has staged over 300 productions at all of the Equity Theaters in town, including our regional Tony Award winners:...
