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J. ALLEN SUDDETH BIO J. Allen Suddeth has worked professionally for the past thirty five years out of the New York area. For Broadway, he has staged fights for Gem Of The Ocean, Saturday Night Fever, Jekyll & Hyde, Angels in America Parts 1 and 2, Loot, Saint Joan, A Small Family Business, Hide and Seek, and the upcoming Disney production of "Newsies." Off - Broadway he has worked on many productions for The Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons, The New Group, Theater For A New Audience, The Public Theater, BAM, Second Stage, Riverside Shakespeare, Jean Cocteau Repertory, The Pearl Theater, and the New York Theater Workshop. Regionally, and in LORT theater he has worked for Centerstage in Baltimore (over 75 productions), The Arena Stage and The Shakespeare Theater in Washington, D. C., as well as The Denver Center, The Huntington Theatre, The Hartford Stage, The Goodman Theater, The Actor’s Theater Of Louisville and The Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Northshore Music Theater, and the Big Apple Circus, among many others. As a master teacher, Allen has trained actors for The Juilliard School, Mason Gross School of The Arts at Rutgers University, The Lee Strasberg Institute, S.U.N.Y. Purchase College, and The Stella Adler Conservatory, as well as being a frequent guest artist at major universities in the US and abroad. For television, he has staged action sequences for over 750 programs on ABC, CBS, NBC, and HBO. He is the author of “Fight Directing For The Theater,” published by Heinemann Press. Allen is the founder of the National Fight Directors Training Program, that ran for 14 years. He is also a frequent teacher at the National Stage Combat Workshops since 1986, at all levels, as well as the Winter Wonderland, Boil, CheeseSteak, and Action Film Workshops. Allen is also a producer of The Complete Unarmed Stage Combat DVD Library. He is ranked as one of sixteen recognized Fight Masters in the United States by The Society of American Fight Directors. Allen is also a Fellow, and Life Member of the British Academy of Dramatic Combat, and founder of 'Fights R Us' a NY based stunt team.