Faculty

J. Allen Suddeth will head the faculty and coordinate the workshop. An SAFD Fight Master since 1980, fight director for Broadway, Regional Theater, Television, and teacher at Rutgers Mason Gross School, and The Lee Strasberg Institute, he is also the author of “Fight Directing For The Theatre.” (full resume available Here!)

Dale Anthony Girard is an award winning Fight Director and author of the stage combat manual Actors On Guard. He is a senior member of the United Stuntmen's Association, an honorary Fight Master of Fight Directors Canada and an honorary member of The Russian Guild of Stage Movement Directors and Teachers. His work has been featured in professional theatres and opera houses throughout the U.S. and Canada, and in several feature films.

Edward "Ted" Sharon is a specialist in voice, movement, and stage combat. He holds an M.F.A. in voice and movement from Boston University School for the Arts and has served on the voice staff at the American Repertory Theatre and Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. He is also a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors.

Ted has taught stage combat for Boston University, Harvard University, M.I.T., the Rocky Mountain Theatre Association and Brigham Young University. Ted's work as a fight director has been seen at the California Shakespeare Festival, the Boston Lyric Opera, the Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and internationally in Taiwan R.O.C. and in mainland China.

Ted works internationally as an actor, director, and fight choreographer and teaches voice, movement and stage combat in the Department of Theatre and Dance at SUNY FREDONIA.

A. C. Weary, Guest Artist. An award winning producer /director for theatre, television and film, is numerous television episodic and Off Broadway experiences led A.C. to create a Theatre to Film production course for The California Institute of The Arts, which he taught in conjunction with acting and stage combat for five years. A.C.'s film The Green Monster was inducted into the Museum of Broadcasting in 2001.

Richard Ryan will be joining us this year as a guest artist. A working professional in England, Mr. Ryan has staged many fights in shows in the West End in London, The Royal Shakespeare Company, and at the Old Vic, and is currently Master At Arms at the Royal Academy Of Dramatic Arts. He is also a member of the SAFD, and the BASSC, as well as being listed in the British Actors' Equity Fight Directors' Registry. Richard has been a SAFD Certified Teacher since 1992, a Fight Director since 1997 and Fight Master since 2003, as well as a Society of British Fight Directors Fight Director, and Fight Examiner. Richard has recently collaborated with famous directors Sir Peter Hall, and Sir Alan Aykbourn. He works all over Europe, and has hundreds of plays to his credit. Mr. Ryan was the swordmaster for the Hollywood film, "Troy."