April 23, 2012
Welcome to my new website! I must thank my friend the relentless Stuart Freeman! It is still under construction but please feel free to explore! Let me also introduce you to my company- TEMPER: Combat Performance Arts! Where each new skill forges a stronger actor! My classes focus on Safety, Physical Control and Expression, Knowledge and Teamwork! Check out the Temper page for my youth classes and my upcoming workshop – The School of Hard Knocks: Youth Stage and Screen Combat!
Feb 2012
NEW CLASS coming up! Please check out my stage combat workshop with FeverGraph Theatre – happening the first weekend of March! Please register now before it’s too late! March 3rd and 4th from 9-1! http://fevergraph.com/training/classes1/ And while you’re at the site – check out their other classes – these ladies know their stuff and I really enjoyed their Monday Movement class!
2012
This past Fall has been a very busy and exciting time for me! On the acting scene, I played the lead in the feature film The Devils Mile, with the fabulous Maria Del Mar and the notorious David Hayter. I also got to act on the Showcase series King, opposite Amy Price-Francis, who was very generous and complimentary. In the fight world, I have had the opportunity to work with the awesome cast and crew of Lost Girl as Bo’s sword double. Sword is my first love in stage combat so I am always thrilled to get a chance to perform sword fights! I have also been very busy teaching stage combat. I just completed teaching Broadsword for Rapier-Wit’s Intermediate Intensive Certification Workshop, and am excited to be teaming up with FeverGraph Theatre (www.fevergraph.com) to add stage combat to their wonderful Acting and Movement Classes! If you’re interested in taking part in my Intro to Stage Combat workshop March 3rd and 4th please go to their website and sign up before Feb 15th!
March 2011
Finally finished my demo! I am improving as an editor, but it really takes me forever, and it’s hard to look at yourself for so long – I had to take breaks. But rightly this should have been up in August. Oh well – better late than never! Check it out on You tube!
Feb 2011
Just finished an amazing run of Duel of Ages at the Next Stage Festival – getting personal mention in almost every review. I will update again soon, but until then – check out Riot ACT’s short “Wanted” – which won Simon and I Action Performers of the Year at the Action on Film Festival in 2009!
July 21 2010
Leaving for L.A. tomorrow with Riot ACT team members to co-teach an Action Acting Workshop with Anthony Delongis in conjunction with the Action on Film Festival! Going to try to shoot as much footage of us there as possible for more Riot ACT shorts and Kick Ass Corner segments. I have never been to L.A., and I am very much looking forward to meeting Anthony finally and playing with weapons on his ranch!
June 2010
My website is a little under construction, so please pardon the mess. It’s a busy time for me these days both as an Actor and a Fight Director.
I have been up at the Stratford Theatre Festival for most of 2010, working as an Assistant Fight Director on Peter Pan, which is currently in previews, and now on the Tempest, with Christopher Plummer. There isn’t a lot of combat in the Tempest but there is a lot of flying for Ariel. Working with Simon Fon, I have been lucky enough to be the one to test her harness and actions, flying in and out of the Festival Theatre grid, and even being belayed out the Tempest Trap onto what is known as the ‘eyebrow’ of the Festival Theatre stage.
In the acting world I will shortly be opening the remount of Urban Bard’s Twelfth Night, in rep with Two Noble Kinsmen in College Park in downtown Toronto. This past winter I had a wonderful experience at the Winnipeg Theatre for Young People, doing the Forbidden Phoenix – it was an excellent cast and crew, and a physically exhausting but very rewarding show. I have also had a chance to do my first television stunts for inMotion and Lost Girl.
I am also still co-hosting an internet segment on Hardcore Nerdity called Kick Ass Corner – which breaks down movie violence. In the latest segment I interviewed Fight Legend Anthony Delongis and looked at his work with whips. I also edited the segment myself – my first editing project, of which there will be many more!
For more information about me as either an Actor or a Fighter, please click on one of the picture inks to the left or the right!
