2012 Carnage Staff
2012 Teaching Assistants
Danette Baker - Advanced Actor Combatant
Danette Baker is a Fight Director, Actor, Director and Teaching Artist. She is the theatrical violence consultant for Seven Devils National Playwrights Conference in McCall, ID. Her fight choreography includes The Grapes of Wrath, Picnic, Bill W & Dr. Bob (Wichita Center for the Arts), The Three Musketeers (John Brown University), Amahl and the Night Visitors (Opera Kansas), Twelfth Night, Children of Eden, Fool for Love, Desdemona…handkerchief (Wichita State University), Julius Caesar (Wichita Shakespeare Company), Romeo and Juliet (Maize High School), and Oklahoma (Trinity Academy). She recently had an article about fight directing published in Stage Directions Magazine (August 2012 issue). As an actress she has worked in theatres across the country from New York to Idaho appearing in – among others - Bloody Poetry (Aegean Theatre Company, NY),Crash Course (American Globe Theatre, NY), The Rainbow Factor (Director’s Company, NY), Summer & Smoke (Monomoy Theatre, Cape Cod), Under Milkwood (Cleveland Playhouse, OH), The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth & A Doll’s House (Wichita Center for the Arts), Hank Williams Lost Highway (Cabaret Oldtown). As an educator Danette holds an adjunct faculty position in theatre at Wichita State University’s School of Performing Arts where she teaches Theatre Appreciation, Acting, Stage Combat and Stage Movement.
Danette holds an MFA in acting from Ohio University's Professional Actor Training Program in Athens, OH and a BA in Theatre from Wichita State University, Wichita, KS. She is a member of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators, and is the Mid-America Regional Representative for the Society of American Fight Directors.
And finally: she is a second degree brown belt in Aikido and is the president of Fightinfierce LLC.
Danette holds an MFA in acting from Ohio University's Professional Actor Training Program in Athens, OH and a BA in Theatre from Wichita State University, Wichita, KS. She is a member of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators, and is the Mid-America Regional Representative for the Society of American Fight Directors.
And finally: she is a second degree brown belt in Aikido and is the president of Fightinfierce LLC.
Collin Bressie - Advanced Actor Combatant
Collin Bressie is an AA/C with the SAFD, Fight Director and Stage Combat Instructor based on the west coast. He is currently a part of the stage combat faculty at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Los Angeles. Collin has taught stage combat workshops with CSU Summer Arts, Cal. St. University Dominguez Hills, The Los Angeles Fight Academy and at the "A-Town Throwdown," an SAFD-sanctioned regional workshop. He is looking forward to returning to Carnage in the Corn and the land of deep fried pork tenderloin.
Christopher Elst - Advanced Actor Combatant
Christopher Elst is an actor, fight director, and stage combat instructor from Milwaukee, WI. Recent roles include: John Wilkes Booth in "Assassins," Romeo in "Juliet and Romeo," Winston Smith in "1984," and many various roles with the Unrehearsed Shakespeare Company in Chicago. This year he will be featured in three local films and his fight choreography can be seen in films and theaters across Wisconsin. You can learn more at http://www.christopherelst.com/
Sara Hodges - Actor Combatant
Alex Miller - Advanced Actor Combatant
Photo and bio to come.
Amie Root - Advanced Actor Combatant
David Schneider - Advanced Actor Combatant
David P Schneider is a recognized Advanced Actor-Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors and has been training since 2001. He has choreographed violence for numerous shows around town, including Park Square’s August: Osage County, Tedious Brief’s Bard Fiction, Hamlet at Theatre in the Round, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore for Classical Actor’s Ensemble, Cromulent Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Richard III and Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hot ‘N’ Throbbing and Teach Me Tonight with 20% Theatre, and several fights for the MN Renaissance Festival. He appeared as a sword fighter in MN Opera’s Romeo and Juliet, and has performed around the twin cities since 2003 with numerous companies including Theatre in the Round, Classical Actor’s Ensemble, Six Elements Theatre, Flaneur Productions, Green T Productions, and Off Leash Area.