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Robert Najarian is an actor, instructor, and fight director based in Cambridge, MA.  Regional credits:  Sleep No More with American Repertory Theater, The Life of Galileo at the Central Square Theatre, Einstein’s Dreams with Underground Railway Theatre, Coriolanus with Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Take Me Out with Speakeasy Stage Company, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare abridged, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Underpants with Foothills Theatre, And Then There Were None with Stoneham Theatre, Don Giovanni with Washington National Opera, and Boston’s longest running show - Shear Madness at the Charles St. Playhouse. 

Fight Direction:  Carmen with Boston Lyric Opera, As You Like It with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Don Quixote with Boston Ballet, The Lieutenant of Inishmore with New Repertory Theatre, A Streetcar Named Desire with Foothills Theatre, West Side Story with Boston Conservatory, and Hamlet with Shakespeare Now! Theatre Company. 

He currently teaches in the Theatre Departments at Boston University (combat and movement,) College of the Holy Cross (acting and combat,) and the Emergency Medical Services Department at Northeastern University (EMT practical skills.)  He is also an instructor at The Combat Studio at Bay State Fencers in Somerville, MA.  MFA: The Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical Acting at the George Washington University.  BA: Bowdoin College.