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A scene from "Romeo and Juliet" at Jean Cocteau Rep

Fight Directing Experience

Joe has twenty years of experience staging fights and action sequences. He is a Certified Fight Director with the SAFD (Society of American Fight Directors), and has received certifications from both SAFD and FDC (Fight Directors, Canada) as an instructor of stage combat.

He has extensive familiarity with period and contemporary armed and unarmed combat disciplines (Eastern and Western), theatre movement techniques, military and law enforcement procedures, anatomy, physiology, biomechanics and First Aid. The resume below gives a sample of experience.  A more extensive list is available.

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New York Theatre 

Playwrights Horizons

Dead Man's Cell Phone (dir. Anne Bogart); 100 Saints You Shoud Know (dir. Ethan McSweeny); Essential Self-Defense (dir. Carolyn Cantor); Blue Door (dir. Leigh Silverman); Fran's Bed (dir. James Lapine); Spatter Pattern (dir. Michael Greif); Chinese Friends (dir. Robert Egan); Wilder (dir. Lisa Portes);

Irish Repertory Theatre

Playboy of the Western World (dir. Charlotte Moore)

Jean Cocteau Repertory

Romeo and Juliet (dir. Rod Mc Lucas); Henry V (dir.David Fuller); Small Craft Warnings (dir. Scott Shattuck) Sus (dir. Woodie King, Jr.)

Blue Heron Theatre

Macs (dir. Mark Roberts)

American Globe Theatre

Macbeth (dir. John Basil); Hamlet (dir. Nate Merchant); Much Ado About Nothing (dir. John Basil)

Regional Theatre

Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre

The Pillowman (dir. Jeff Zinn); What the Butler Saw (dir. David Wheeler); Hunter Gatherers (dir. Gip Hoppe); Mojo (dir. Mark Wilkinson); Red Light Winter (dir. Rand Foerster); On an Average Day (dir. Jeff Zinn)

Seaside Music Theatre

Peter Pan (dir. Earl Weaver) Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (dir. Lester Malizia); Singin' in the Rain (dir. Chad Larabee); A Tale of Two Cities (dir. Lester Malizia); Oklahoma (dir. Chuck Hoenes); Ragtime (dir. Lester Malizia)

Polka Dot Playhouse

Deathtrap (dir. Laurie Callahan)

Attic Ensemble

Fuddy Meers (dir. Jerry Beal); The Credeaux Canvas (dir. Paul Zeller); All My Sons (dir. Mark E. Morchel); As Bees in Honey Drown (dir. Tom Rowan); A View from the Bridge (dir. Wanda Maragni);

Bickford Theatre

Deathtrap (dir. David Christopher)

Wayside Theatre

Les Liaisons Dangereuses (dir. Christopher Owens)

Opera

Modus Opera

Don Giovanni (dir. Savannah Stevens)

Gallery Players

Pirates of Penzance(dir. Sidney Fortner)

National Tour

National Shakespeare Company

Romeo and Juliet (dir. Matt August); Hamlet (dir. Vincent Masterpaul)

Film

Fox/Searchlight

Lifted (dir. Randall Dottin)

MP Filmworks

A - Alike (dir. Randall Dottin)

 

Joseph Travers, Fight Director 
New York, NY 
USA

Phone: (646) 228-5354
 (212) 726-2400

email Joe at joe@swordplay98@hotmail.com