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Brad Alan Waller

Stage Combat

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Photograph of Brad Alan Waller, Stage Combat Brad Alan Waller is a certified teacher of stage combat through the Society of American Fight Directors, is a member of SAG and AEA, and is an Honorary Member of the Nordic Stage Fight Society, Fight Directors Canada, and the New Zealand Stage Combat Society. He has served the Washington, D.C., theatre community as a Fight Choreographer and Teacher of Stage Combat since 1989. He has choreographed more than 150 professional shows for such theatres as the Shakespeare Theater Company, The Folger Theatre, Arena Stage, the Kennedy Center, Washington National Opera, Ford’s Theatre, The Washington Ballet, WSC Avant Bard, Huntington Theatre Company, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Olney Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Source Theatre, Round House Theatre, the Virginia Stage Company and others. He has lectured at the Smithsonian Institution and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Over the last 20 years, Waller has also been teaching and training internationally for the Stage Combat Arts and the Historical Martial Arts in such countries as Canada, England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Australia and South Africa. He is currently developing and teaching an advanced training program for the Nordic Stage Fight Society. Honors include the Maestro’s Buckle Award from Paddy Crean, the Maestro’s Dagger Award from Henry Marshall and the Society of British Fight Directors, the Henry Marshall Memorial Award for Distinguished Service from Fight Directors Canada and Guest Curator of The Sword and the Pen exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library. He holds an MFA in Acting from Temple University and attended the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting and studied with Uta Hagen, Sandy Dennis and Herbert Berghof at the H.B. Studio.