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Mike Yahn is a Certified Teacher through the Society of American Fight Directors, a partner in Combat Incorporated, and a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. His fight choreography has been seen at Second Stage Theatre, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, Theater for a New Audience, the New York Film Academy, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York University, NYC Fringe Festival, the New England Shakespeare Festival, Close Combat Instructional Videos, and the Pirates of the Caribbean toy commercials. Hooked on stage combat ever since he saw Fight Master J. David Brimmer pretend to destroy a man’s face with an invisible cannon ball, he has worked as Brimmer’s assistant both on and off Broadway in such productions as Spring Awakening the Musical, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Bug, and Speed the Plow. He is also an instructor of Wing Tsun (Wing Chun) kung fu, traveling from Hong Kong to Budapest studying the art (including a demonstration on Discovery Channel’s Fight Quest). He currently runs his own branch of City Wing Tsun in NYC’s East Village and last year stunt doubled Mark Strong on the film Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr.