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IThe SSCS has several highly experienced and certified Fight Directors available for Professional Fight Choreography and Action Coordination for Theatre and Film productions. All of our Fight Directors are qualified in all aspects of Stage Combat including unarmed and weapon work, acting, teaching and directing. All of our Fight Directors and Instructors also hold a St. John’s Senior First Aid Certificate and Public Liability Insurance.

The SSCS can assist productions in a variety of ways from choreographing the violence and action in a scene to providing advice on period etiquette or weapon choice. Any form of risky movement from slipping, falling, grabbing, carrying, fighting, domestic violence, swordfights and battles deserve proper attention by a professional Fight Director to ensure the safety of all involved. SSCS Fight Directors are specialists in spatial and kinetic awareness and physical performance and can give your production that stark realism that you are looking for without putting your cast, crew or audience at any risk. Try a Fight Director, the life you save may be your own.

Kyle Rowling is a professional Actor, Director, Weapons Master and Fight Director. He has twenty-five years experience in various Martial Arts including Chinese and Japanese styles and has been working as a Fight Director for over a decade. In that time he has trained, choreographed and performed Stage Combat for STC, Opera Australia, Ensemble Theatre, Belvoir St, Marion St, Bell Shakespeare, the David Atkins Group, Sydney Shakespeare Globe and many more. He also teaches and choreographs regularly at most of Sydney’s top acting institution including NIDA, VCA, the Actors College of Theatre and Television, the Actors Centre Australia and The Australian Theatre for Young People. Kyle’s Stage Combat and performance skills have also secured him work in many theatre and film productions including “Star Wars EP II and III” as Christopher Lee’s fight double, Eric Bana’s personal weapons trainer for “Troy”, fight director and performer for the 2000 production of “Pan” at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre and the 2001 New York tour of STC's “The White Devil”.