2011 Carnage Staff
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2011 Instructors
Michael G. Chin - Fight Master
Michael G. Chin is a professional actor (AEA, AFTRA, SAG) as well as a sanctioned Master instructor and fight choreographer with the Society of American Fight Directors. He’s taught/choreographed/consulted in the New York area on Broadway and through out the city as well as in Regional Theatres across the country. Mr Chin currently teaches at The Juilliard School, Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, Brooklyn College, Pace University and privately for Fights4. WWW.Fights4.com
Michael Jerome Johnson - Fight Director Emeritus
As a fight director and/or actor, Michael has worked in NYC at the Epic Theatre, Fluid Motion, Sonnett Rep and the Lady Cavalier Theatre Company. His national work includes productions at the Arena Stage, South Coast Rep, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth,Theatre at Lime Kiln and most recently, Off Square Theatre Company where he was a company member for a year. His university work includes productions at Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Georgetown University, Catholic University, University of Maryland, and his alma mater, University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Michael created the stage combat program at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in DC and taught there for 11 years. He has been a regular teacher at the NY Summer Sling and the Cincinnati workshop now known as Cease and Desist. He has also taught at the Philadelphia and Chicago regional workshops, as well as the SAFD national workshops in Las Vegas and North Carolina.
Michael is the creator of the Knife discipline for the SAFD. When teachers of the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat wanted to create their own Knife discipline, they invited Michael to London to advise them. Michael is both honored and humbled that the Governing Body and the College of Fight Master voted to make him the SAFD's first Fight Director Emeritus.
Paul Dennhardt - Fight Director
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Brian LeTraunik - Certified Teacher
Brian LeTraunik is an actor, fight director and SAFD Certified Teacher of stage combat currently based in Chicago, IL. His most recent choreography credits include "Reasons to be Pretty" for StageWest Theatre Company, "The Glory of Living" for Drake University and "Doo Lister's Blues" for National Pastime Theatre. He has taught acting, movement, stage combat, voice and musical theatre for such institutions as Drake University, Western Illinois University, Simpson College and The University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Brian has also taught at several SAFD workshops, including the Cease & Desist Workshop, National Stage Combat Workshops, Carnage in the Corn, Winter Wonderland Workshop, Rumble in the Rockies and the Central Illinois Stage Combat Workshop. As an actor, favorite roles include Man in Chair in "The Drowsy Chaperone", Polonius in "Hamlet", Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice", Alfie in "A Man of No Importance", Lafew in "All's Well That Ends Well", Prospero in "The Tempest", Pandarus in "Troilus and Cressida", Major Petkoff in "Arms and the Man", The Engineer in "Miss Saigon", Skylight in "Class Enemy" and Dr. Scott in "The Rocky Horror Show". Brian has a BA in Theatre (Acting) from Columbia College Chicago and a MFA in Acting from Western Illinois University.
Adam Noble - Certified Teacher
Certified Teacher, Great Lakes Regional Representative - Society of American Fight Directors
Assistant Professor of Movement/Combat - Department of Theatre & Drama, Indiana University
Adam is extremely excited to join the faculty of Carnage in the Corn this year! In addition to playing with weapons and teaching, Adam is also a professional actor, with credits including Shakespeare in the Park (NYSF), Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, Julliard, P.S. 122, Seattle Rep, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and On the Boards. As a movement specialist, he has accumulated coaching and combat choreography credits in the worlds of film, theatre, and opera. Adam is a member of the Actors Equity Association, the Association of Theatre Movement Educators, and the British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat. He has taught movement and stage combat both nationally and internationally – most recently for the Ilkhom Theatre School of Mark Weil in Tashkent, Uzbekistan – and he has choreographed the violence for over 80 stage and film productions.
D.C. Wright - Certified Teacher
A Senior Instructor with Dueling Arts International, D.C. is currently the Head of Movement and Stage Combat at Western Illinois University. D.C. has been very active in teaching at national, regional, and local stage combat workshops including the DAI Winter Workshop, DAI Teachers Symposium, DAI Fight Director and Performance Workshops, the SAFD National Stage Combat Workshop in Las Vegas, the SAFD Winter Wonderland Workshop in Chicago, the Rumble in the Rockies in Denver, the Stage Combat Training Workshop in Eureka, IL and the United Stuntmen’s Association’s International Stunt School in Seattle.
D.C’s work as a Fight Director has been viewed at numerous venues around the country including: the Off Broadway production of The Blowin of Baile Gall at the Donaghy Theatre at the Irish Arts Center, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, and Henry VIII at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, and Of Mice and Men and Romeo and Juliet for the Arkansas Repertory Theatre. Additionally his work has been seen at the Boston Playwrights Theater, Boston Musica Viva, Boston University Theater, Boston University Opera Institute, Tuachan, Actor’s Repertory Theater Ensemble, Brigham Young University, University of Kansas, University of Utah and Western Illinois University.
In conjunction with Dueling Arts International, D.C, wrote, directed and/or performed in three Wild West Stunt Shows for Leo Foo amusement park in Taiwan and he has also acted in and/or been the stunt coordinator/fight director for several commercials and industrial films. Most notable is the recently released DAI production called “And They Fight…”, a 23 hr. six volume stage combat instructional series covering all major weapon styles in which he is a primary demonstrator.
D.C’s work as a Fight Director has been viewed at numerous venues around the country including: the Off Broadway production of The Blowin of Baile Gall at the Donaghy Theatre at the Irish Arts Center, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, and Henry VIII at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, and Of Mice and Men and Romeo and Juliet for the Arkansas Repertory Theatre. Additionally his work has been seen at the Boston Playwrights Theater, Boston Musica Viva, Boston University Theater, Boston University Opera Institute, Tuachan, Actor’s Repertory Theater Ensemble, Brigham Young University, University of Kansas, University of Utah and Western Illinois University.
In conjunction with Dueling Arts International, D.C, wrote, directed and/or performed in three Wild West Stunt Shows for Leo Foo amusement park in Taiwan and he has also acted in and/or been the stunt coordinator/fight director for several commercials and industrial films. Most notable is the recently released DAI production called “And They Fight…”, a 23 hr. six volume stage combat instructional series covering all major weapon styles in which he is a primary demonstrator.