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Chuck Coyl has been a professional fight director for over 30 years and is president of the Society of American Fight Directors. Recent credits include the Broadway production and national tour of “August: Osage County”, “The Crucible” and “Superior Donuts” at the Steppenwolf Theatre, “Gas for Less”, “Magnolia” at the Goodman Theatre, “Porgy and Bess”, “Damnation of Faust” at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and “Private Lives” at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Other notable productions include, the world premiers of Killer Joe, Bug, and The Point of Honor. He is a founding member of the Single Action Theatre Company, and is on the faculty of the Actor’s Gymnasium and Roosevelt University in Chicago.