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Ted Sharon is an Associate Professor and Head of Performance in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors, a Master Teacher with Dueling Arts International and a member of the faculty at the Action Film Workshops. Mr. Sharon's work on stage has been seen at the California Shakespeare Festival, the Boston Lyric Opera, the Chautauqua Conservatory Theatre Company of New York, Sight and Sound Theatres in Pennsylvania, the Miracle Theatre in Tennessee, the Yakov Smirnoff Show in Missouri, the Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and internationally in Taiwan R.O.C., mainland China and at the Bargello Museum in Florence, Italy. Mr. Sharon has produced and directed over thirty on camera productions including Operation Polymer and High on Science in cooperation with the Center for Layered Polymeric Systems at Case Western Reserve University funded by the National Science Foundation, and projects funded by the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read. He is also the founder of Mind Tools (www.mindtoolsinnovations.com). Mr. Sharon is a graduate of Boston University College of Fine Arts and completed a Voice Internship at the American Repertory Theatre and Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. He teaches acting, voice & movement and stage combat for the State University of New York at Fredonia.