Kevin McCurdy
Kev is an Equity Registered Fight Director of 25 yrs, stage combat tutor of 35 yrs & co-founder of The Academy of Performance Combat.
Kev teaches at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and has been a guest instructor at universities in Oklahoma and Missouri and on workshops in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Canada and Australia
"Kev became the 1st POC to officially teach stage combat with a recognised stage combat organisation in September of 1992 and also in January of 2000, he became the 1st, (and still), POC to be placed onto the Equity Fight Directors Register since it's conception in 1969.
Kev has been teaching now for 35 years and celebrated 25 yrs as a professional Fight Choreographer.
Upcoming fight choreographing projects include: Hamlet and Edward II at Shakespeare’s Globe
Theatre includes:
Sister Act (UK tour, London Palladium & Dominion Theatre); Les
Misérables (Sondheim Theatre); Phantom of The Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre); Barbarians, Mandela, Hamlet, Nora- A Doll’s House, The Homecoming, Fairview, The Little Foxes (Young Vic); Jitney (Old Vic); A Streetcar Named Desire, West Side Story, Billy Elliot (Curve Theatre); Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘em (UK tour); Moreno (Theatre 503); Nine Night (Leeds Playhouse); Gunpowder (Tower Of London); Guardians of The Galaxy (Secret Cinema); Trouble In Butetown, The Fear Of 13 (Donmar Warehouse); Brokeback Mountain (Soho Place); The Wizard Of Oz (London Palladium / UK tour); The Beaux Strategem, The Muthafu**er With The Hat, Anthony And Cleopatra, Othello (National Theatre); O Island, Ivy Tiller-Squirrel Killer, The Box Of Delights, The Tempest, Cymbelline, Othello, The Buddha Of Suberbia (RSC); Tambo and Bones (Stratford East); Carrie The Musical, Julius Caesar (Richard Burton Theatre) Macbeth (Bristol Old Vic); Enemy Of The People (Duke Of York’s Theatre); Out Of Season (Hampstead Theatre); One Man Two Guvnors (Everyman Open Air Festival); An Officer And A Gentleman (UK tour); Player Kings (Noel Coward Theatre / UK tour); The Lightning Child, Eyam, The Duchess Of Malfi, Othello, Edward II, All’s Well That Ends Well, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe) The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre); Red Pitch (Bush Theatre / Soho Place); Wolves On Road (Bush Theatre); Stranger Things (Phoenix Theatre)
Opera includes:
Bajazet (Irish National Opera tour); Carmen, The Barber Of Seville (Garsington Opera); Rigoletto, Don Giovanni, Jenufa, Candide (Welsh National Opera); Jephta, Rigoletto, Don Giovanni, Bajazet (Royal Opera House); Semele, Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne) Carmen (Waterperry Opera)
Film includes:
Season Of The Witch, John Carter Of Mars, Protein, Scopophobia, The Lady Of Heaven.
Television includes:
Eastenders, Dr Who, The Pact S2, Hollyoaks, The A List S2, Until I Kill You, Pobol Y Cwm, Bariau.
Equity Registered Fight Director
Academy of Performance Combat Co- Founder
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Pronouns: He/Him
Contact:
Agent:
Emptage Hallett Cardiff
029 20 344 205