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Matt Richardson
Fight Direction
Safe, Patient, Professional
Selected Theatre Fight Direction
Production Discipline Company
The Duelist Longsword, Spanish Rapier, Humber River Shakespere Company
rapier and dagger vs. backsword and dagger
Villians! Pirate Cutlass/Found Weapons Disney Cruise Lines
The Belle of Winnipeg Slapstick/Fisticuffs Keystone Theatre
Things Base and Weill ... Love Can Transpose! Scottish Backsword/Longsword/Hand-to-Hand Theatre Counterpoise
A Party to Murder Fireplace Poker/Porcelain Shard Georgetown Little Theatre
'Aint We Got Fun! Hand-to-Hand/Found Weapon Keystone Theatre
In Darfur Hand-to-Hand/Sexual Assault Theatre Awakening
Team Epic, Episodes 1 through 4 Superhero/Martial Arts Poetic License Productions
The Evil that Men Do Short Sword/Hand-to-Hand Amicus Productions
Romeo and Juliet Katana/Sai/Jo Staff/Karate Festival Players Brampton
Human Chess Quarter Staff/Bastard Sword/Broadsword & Shield/Dagger/Hand-to-Hand/Axe & Shield Orangeville Renaissance Festival
Swordplay Single Rapier Ontario Renaissance Festival
As You Like It Wrestling Ontario Renaissance Festival
Edmund Ironside Night Stick/Chain/Staff/Dagger/Axe Handle/Single Rapier Firebrand Productions
A Midsummer Night's Dream Hand-to-Hand Firebrand Productions
Twelfth Night Hand-to-Hand Festival of Classics
Shakespeare Up In Arms Rapier & Dagger/Rapier & Shield/Rapier & Cloak/Short Sword & Buckler The Magic If
Macbeth Bastard Sword/Dagger Tempest Theatre
Romeo and Juliet Rapier & Dagger/Rapier & Cloak/Single Rapier Tempest Theatre
Hamlet
Single Rapier Tempest Theatre
Selcted Fighting Roles
Show Style Fight Director/Company
Team Epic, Episode 4 Special Forces Soldier/Electro-Stun Baton Matt Richardson/Poetic License Productions
Duel of Ages Rapier & Dagger/Martial Arts Todd Campbell/True Edge Productions
Fight Night Knife/Single Rapier Peter Hurley & Simon Fon/ Fight Night Productions
Fight Night Quarterstaff/Katana Daniel Levinson & Matt Ricahrdson/ Fight Night Productions
Henry VI, Parts 1 & 2 Broadsword/Pike John Stead/Stratford Festival
Richard III Broadsword James Binkley/Stratford Festival
Romeo and Juliet Katana Matt Richardson/Festival Players Brampton
Human Chess Rapier & Cloak Tom Plott/Ontario Renaissance Festival
Macbeth Broadsword/Dagger Todd Campbell/Tempest Theatre
Shakespeare Up In Arms Sword & Buckler/Rapier & Dagger Peter G. Hurlery/The Magic IF
Stage Combat Teacher

Multiple classes taught since 1994, including but not limited to: intro to stage combat, hand-to-hand, single sword, traditional archery, quarterstaff, knife fighting

ages: elementary school, to drama students, to adult actors

individual lessons, to small- and large-group workshops

Taught classes for LKTYP (formerly YPT), Tarragon Theatre, the Paddy Crean International Art of the Sword Workshop, DYT Productions, Sears Drama Festival, Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School, and more.
Training and Related Skills
7 years Non-Classical Wing Chun Kung-Fu -- Brown Sash
Member of Fight Directors Canada since 1993 -- last certification level: Advanced Actor/Combatant
9 years Lifeguard experience, last certification held – N. L. S. (including First Aid and CPR)
over 30 years experience with Traditional Archery: Longbow, Recurve & Crossbow

Disciplines, including, but not limited to:

Single Rapier, Rapier and Companion Weapons (ex. Cloak, Shield, Buckler, Dagger), Broadsword, Broadsword and Companion Weapons (ex. Shield, Buckler, Hand Axe, Short Sword), Axe, Found and Environmental Weapon, Katana, Japanese Peasant Weapons (ex. Sai, Tonfa, Bo Staff, Yawara), Small Sword, Quarterstaff, Scottish Backsword, Tomahawk and Longknife, Spear and Shield, Chain, Cutlass, Cane, Swashbuckling, Savage Sword, German Longsword, Kali Stick and Knife Fighting, Dirty Fighting, Western Hand-To-Hand, Kung-Fu, Jeet Kune Do, Savate
Instructors

Paddy Crean, J.P. Fournier, Robert Seale, John Stead, John Brogan, Peter G. Hurley, Ian Rose (U.S.A.), Jacques Capelle (Belgium), Simon Fon, Joe Bostick, Paul Macdonald (Scotland), Grant Richardson, plus multiple instructors in workshops world-wide.

Workshops
International Swordfighting & Martial Arts Convention, Detroit, 2009

Paddy Crean International Art of the Sword Workshop, Banff, 2008-2009

International Swordfighting & Martial Arts Convention, Detroit, 2008

Highland Challenge, Scotland, 2008

Philly Cheesesteak Stage Combat Workshop, Philadelphia, 2007

Paddy Crean International Art of the Sword Workshop, Banff, 2006-2007

Winter Wonderland Workshop, Chicago, 2006

Winter Wonderland Workshop, Chicago, 2005
Trained at Multiple FDC Workshops including 1993, 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003

Masterclasses

Ian Rose: Rapier & Cloak, Rapier & Dagger, Lichtenhauer Longsword,  Navy Cutlass, Pirate Cutlass
Independent Classes
Quarterstaff and Backsword: Maestro Paul Macdonald
Jeet Kune Do: Grant Richardson (Full Instructor: Inosanto Lineage through Paul Vunak)

References
Andrew Lamb
Director of Education and Outreach
andrew@tarragontheatre.com
416.536.5018 x229
Kristine Marchese
Executive Director, DYT Productions & The Actors Studio
kristine@dytproductions.com
416.712.2749
Richard Beaune
actor and director
416.805.2044