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(​MOVEMENT DIRECTION AND FIGHT DIRECTION

From 1995 to 2005, I was a member of the Artistic Staff of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where I served as the Resident Movement Director for the Festival productions.  The position of Movement Director was instituted in 1995 when Henry Woronicz, then Artistic Director, asked me to join his staff and develop the position as I saw fit.  Consequently, the position that evolved during my tenure was unique, reflecting my interests, experiences and skills.  In that position, I functioned both as an advisor and as a practitioner in the production process.  Often I was intimately involved in the conceptualization of productions, making contributions that influenced interpretation, style and direction.  In the rehearsal phase of production, I was responsible for all the physical demands of the Festival shows:  I choreographed non-dance movement sequences, including stage violence; I taught and arranged period movement for appropriate productions; I assisted in blocking shows; I addressed physical staging problems as they arose; and I coached actors, frequently in collaboration with my colleague, Scott Kaiser, the Head of Voice and Text and the Director of Company Development. 
 
Before joining the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, I served in a similar capacity from 1983 to 1995, as Movement and Fight Director in the Department of Theatre at Illinois State University and for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival.

 (a selection)
2020   Fight Director, Hamlet, Clarence Brown Theatre (Dir. J. Sipes)
2018   Movement Coach, Candide, Clarence Brown Theatre (Dir. C. MacLean)
2017    Fight Director, Imprisoned, Equitas Entertainment (Dir. P. Kampf)
2016    Fight Coach, The Crucible, Clarence Brown Theatre (Dir. C. MacLean)
2015    Movement Coach, Three Penny Opera, Clarence Brown Theatre (Dir. C. MacLean)
2015    Movement Director, X’s and O’s: A Football Love Story, Berkeley Rep (Dir. Tony Taccone)         
2014    Movement Director, The Tempest, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. Tony Taccone)
2011    Fight Director, Moonlight and Magnolias, Clarence Brown Theatre (Dir. K. Buckley)
2010    Fight Director, Amadeus, Clarence Brown Theatre (Dir. C. MacLean)
2010    Fight Director, Throne of Blood, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Brooklyn Academy of Music (Dir. P. Chong)
2010    Fight Director, Man of La Mancha, Clarence Brown Theatre (Dir. Paul Barnes)
2009    Movement Director, Equivocation, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. B. Rauch)
2009    Fight Director, Henry V, Co-pro Guthrie Theater/The Acting Company (Dir. D. McCallum)
2008    Movement Director, The Clay Cart, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. B. Rauch)
2008    Movement Director, Welcome Home Jenny Sutter, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. J. Thebus)
2008    Fight Director, Fences, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Gardiner)
2008    Movement Director, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. M. Rucker)
2008    Movement Director, Coriolanus, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. Laird Williamson)
2008    Movement/Fight Director, Othello, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. Lisa Peterson)
2008    Movement Director, The Comedy of Errors, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Metropulos)
2008    Movement Director, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. T. Young)
2008    Movement Director, A View from the Bridge, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Appel)
2007    Movement Director, The Tempest, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Appel)
2007    Movement/Fight Director, Romeo and Juliet, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. B. Rauch)
2007    Movement Director, Taming of the Shrew, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. K. Buckley)
2006    Movement Coach, Ubu the King, Denison University (Dir. R. Gander)
2006    Fight Director, Cyrano de Bergerac, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Williamson)
2006    Fight Director, Merry Wives of Windsor, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. A. Tsao)
2006    Movement Director, Jeykll and Hyde, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Metropulos)
2006    Fight Director, As You Like It, Clarence Brown Theatre (Dir J. Haj)
2005    Movement/Fight Director, Richard III, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Appel)
2005    Movement Director, The Philanderer, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Metropulos)
2005    Movement Director, The Waters of Babylon, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. B. Rauch)
2005    Movement Director, Room Service, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. J. R. Sullivan)
2005    Movement/Fight Director, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. T. Bond)
2005    Movement Director, Napoli Millionaria, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Appel)
2005    Movement Director, Gibraltar, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Diamond)
2005    Movement/Fight Director, Twelfth Night, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Amster)
2005    Movement/Fight Director, Dr. Faustus, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. J. Edmondson)
2005    Movement Director, The Belle Stratagem, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. D. MaCallum)
2004    Movement Director, Oedipus Complex, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. F. Galati)
2004    Fight Director, King Lear, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. J. Edmondson)
2004    Movement Director, Humble Boy, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Metropulos)
2004    Movement/Fight Director, Henry VI, Parts II & III, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dirs. L. Appel, S. Kaiser)
2004    Movement/Fight Director, Henry VI, Part I, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dirs. L. Appel, S. Kaiser)
2004    Fight Director, A Raisin in the Sun, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. T. Bond)
2004    Movement Director, The Comedy of Errors, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. K. Albers)
2004    Fight Director, The Royal Family, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Amster)
2004    Movement Director, Topdog/Underdog, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. T. Bond)
2003    Movement Director, Hedda Gabler, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. B. Rauch)
2003    Movement Director, The Piano Lesson, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. T. Bond)
2003    Movement Director, Richard II, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Appel)
2003    Movement Director, Wild Oats, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. J. Edmondson)
2003    Movement Coach, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. K. Albers)
2003    Movement Director, Lorca in a Green Dress, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Metropulos)
2003    Movement Director, Antony and Cleopatra, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Metropulos)
2003    Movement/Fight Director, Romeo and Juliet, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Greco)
2003    Movement Director, Continental Divide, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. T. Taccone)
2002    Movement Director, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Appel)
2002    Movement/Fight Director, Playboy of the West Indies, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. K. Leon)
2002    Fight Director, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. T. Bond)
2002    Movement Coach, The Winter’s Tale, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. M. Edwards)
2002    Movement/Fight Director, Titus Andronicus, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. J. Edmondson)
2002    Movement/Fight Director, As You Like It, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Metropulos)
2002    Movement Director, Handler, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. B. Rauch)
2002    Movement /Fight Director, Macbeth, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Appel)
2002    Movement Coach, Idiot's Delight, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Amster)
2002    Movement Coach, Noises Off, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. K. Albers)
2002    Movement/Fight Director, Julius Caesar, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Williamson)
2001    Movement Coach, The Trip to Bountiful, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Appel)
2001    Movement Coach, The Merchant of Venice, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. M. Edwards)
2001    Movement Director, Three Sisters, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Appel)
2001    Fight Director, Troilus and Cressida, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. K. Albers)
2001    Movement Director, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Groag)
2001    Movement Director, Fuddy Meers, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. J. Edmondson)
2001    Movement Director, Life Is A Dream, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Williamson)
2001    Movement Director, The Tempest, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Metropulos)
2000    Movement Director. Trojan Women, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Diamond)
2000    Movement Coach, Stop Kiss, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Greco)
2000    Movement Coach, Force of Nature, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. J. Edmondson)
2000    Movement Director, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. S. Scott)
2000    Movement/Fight Director, Hamlet, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Appel)
2000    Movement Director, Twelfth Night, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. T. Bond)
2000    Movement Director, Wit, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. J. Dillon)
2000    Movement Director, The Night of the Iguana, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Metropulos)
2000    Movement/Fight Director, Henry V, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Appel)
2000    Movement Coach, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. W. Shook)
2000    Movement Coach, The Alchemist, Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Dir. T. Taccone)
1999    Movement Director, Pericles, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Williamson)
1999    Fight Director/Associate Director, The Three Musketeers, Oregon Shakespeare Festival
1999    Movement Director, Henry IV, Part II, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Appel)
1999    Movement Coach, Much Ado About Nothing, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. J. Edmondson)
1999    Movement Coach, Seven Guitars, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. K. Leon)
1999    Movement Coach, Tongue of a Bird, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. T. Bond)
1999    Fight Director, Othello, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. T. Taccone)
1999    Movement Director, Good Person of Szechuan, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Metropulos)
1999    Movement/Fight Director, El Paso Blue, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. T. Bond)
1999    Movement Director, Rosmersholm, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. J. Turner)
1999    Fight Director, Hydrotaphia, Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Dir. T. Taccone)
1998    Movement Director, Antony and Cleopatra, Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Dir. L. Peterson)
1998    Fight Director, Henry IV, Part I, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. M. Edwards)
1998    Fight Director, Cymbeline, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. M. Edwards)
1998    Movement Director, Measure for Measure, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Appel)
1998    Movement Director, A Touch of the Poet, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. D. Wager)
1998    Movement Director, Sailing to Byzantium, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. C. Coleman)
1998    Movement Director, Uncle Vanya, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Appel)
1998    Movement Director, Les Blancs, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. T. Bond)
1998    Movement Director, Vilna's Got a Golem, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. B. Damashek)
1998    Movement Director, The School for Scandal, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Groag)
1998    Movement Director, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Metropulos)
1998    Movement Director, An Ideal Husband, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre (Dir. J. Hanreddy)
1997    Movement Director, Pentecost, Berkeley Repertory Theatre [remount] (Dir. T. Taccone)
1997    Movement Director, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. T. Bond)
1997    Movement Director, The Magic Fire, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Appel)
1997    Movement Director, Nora, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. R.E.T. White)
1997    Movement Director, Timon of Athens, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Metropulos)
1997    Fight Director, As You Like It, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. T. Thompson)
1997    Movement Director, Pentecost, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. T. Taccone)
1997    Movement Coach, Turn of the Screw, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. M. Edwards)
1997    Fight Director, Macbeth, Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Dir. T. Taccone)
1997    Movement Director, Death of a Salesman, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Metropulos)
1997    Movement/Fight Director, King Lear, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. L. Appel)
1996    Fight Director, The Darker Face of the Earth, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. R. Kahn)
1996    Movement Director, Cabaret Verboten, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Metropulos)
1996    Movement Director, Strindberg in Hollywood, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Patton)
1996    Movement Director, Love's Labor's Lost, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Patton)
1996    Movement Director, Three Viewings and Three Hotels, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. M. Hume)
1996    Fight Director, Romeo and Juliet, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. R. Buch)
1996    Movement Director & Associate Director, Coriolanus, Oregon Shakespeare Festival
1996    Movement Director, The Winter's Tale, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. F. Syer)
1996    Movement Director, Moliere Plays Paris, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. J. Edmondson)
1996    Movement Director, Arcadia, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. S. Hollis)
1995    Fight Director, Cymbeline, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Dir. C. MacLean)
1994    Fight Director, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Dir. C. MacLean)
1994    Movement Director, Romeo and Juliet, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. O’Gara)
1994    Movement Director, Abingdon Square, Illinois State University (Dir. N. Benjamin)
1994    Movement Director, School for Scandal, MFA Directing Project, Illinois State Univ. (Dir. S. Young)
1994    Movement Coach, Now Look What You Made Me Do, Native Voices Play Festival
1994    Movement Director, Slaughter City, Illinois State University, (Dir. N. Benjamin)
1993    Fight Director, The Birthday Party, Illinois State University (Dir. J. Kirk)
1993    Fight Director, The Adding Machine, Illinois State University (Dir. S. Zelinski)
1993    Movement Coach, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Illinois State University
1993    Movement Coach, The Imaginary Invalid, Illinois State University
1993    Fight Director, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Dir. B. Longworth)
1993    Fight Director, Pericles, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Dir. D. Finlayson)
1993    Movement/Fight Director, The Pirates of Penzance, Illinois State University
1993    Fight Director, Hamlet, Bradley University, Peoria
1992    Movement Choreographer, The Trojan Women, Illinois State University
1992    Movement Coach, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Illinois State University
1992    Movement Director, La Bete, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Dir. H. Woronicz)
1992    Fight Director, Our Country’s Good, Illinois State University (Dir. C. MacLean)
1992    Movement Coach, A Christmas Carol, Illinois State University
1992    Fight Director, As You Like It, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Dir. C. MacLean)
1992    Fight Director, Macbeth, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. Metropulos)
1991    Fight Director, Othello, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Dir. T. Markus)
1991    Movement Director, Antony and Cleopatra, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. O’Gara)
1991    Movement Coach, Cosi fan tutte, Illinois State University (Dir. C. DeVeer)
1991    Fight Director, The Third Richard, Illinois State University (Dir. J. Kirk)
1990    Co-choreographer, A Little Night Music, Illinois State University
1990    Movement Coach, B. Beaver Animation, Illinois State University (Dir. L. Breuer)
1990    Movement Coach, White Boned Demon, Illinois State University (Dir. L. Mohn)
1990    Fight Director, An Enemy of the People, Illinois State University (Dir. S. Zelinski)
1990    Fight Director, Julius Caesar, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Dir. C. Pritner)
1990    Fight Director, The Rivals, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Dir. C. MacLean)
1988    Fight Director/Co-Director, An Encounter in Sherwood Forest, Ewing Arts Festival
1988    Fight Director, Richard III, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Dir. D. Harris)
1988    Movement Director, All's Well That Ends Well, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Dir. C. Pritner)
1988    Movement/Fight Director, Cyrano de Bergerac, Illinois State Univ. (Dir. P. O’Gara)
1987    Fight Director, Romeo and Juliet, Illinois Shakespeare Festival
1987    Fight Director, Twelfth Night, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Dir. K. Donnelly)
1986    Fight Director/Movement Designer, Hamlet, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Dir. P. O’Gara)
1986    Fight Choreographer, As You Like It, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Dir. C. Pritner)
1986    Resident Fight Director, Illinois Shakespeare Festival
1986    Movement Coach, The Balcony, Illinois State University
1985    Assistant Fight Director, Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Fight Dir. D. Boushey)
1985    Fight Choreographer, Extremities, Illinois State University
1985    Movement Director, The Tooth of Crime, Illinois State University (Dir. S. Zelinksi)
1985    Movement Coach, Peg O'My Heart, Illinois State University (Dir. G. Griffin)
1985    Movement Director, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Illinois State University (Dir. P. O’Gara)
1984    Fight Director, The Miracle Worker, Bloomington Players
1984     Fight Director, The Playboy of the Western World, Illinois State University (Dir. G. Griffin) 
1984     Fight Director, The Indian Wants the Bronx, Illinois State University 
1984     Fight Director, Richard III, Illinois State University (Dir. J. Kirk) 
1984     Co-Choreographer, Hair, Illinois State University 
1984     Fight Director, The Lower Depths, Illinois State University (Dir. J. Kirk) 
1983     Movement Director, The Country Wife, Illinois State University (Dir. J. Walker) 
1982     Movement Director, Tango, Indiana University (Dir. S. Ponomorov) 
1981     Movement Director, The Importance of Being Earnest, Indiana University (Dir. M. Carlson) 
1979     Movement Director, The Comedy of Errors, Loyola University (Dir. A. Gonzalez) 
1978     Movement Coach, Purgatorio, Loyola University (Dir. E. Ferlita) 
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