Sydney Stage Combat

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SPECIALIST PERFORMERS:

The SSCS is available for specialist performances at private, public and corporate events. We have a squad of talented combatants, both male and female, skilled in various weapons and fighting styles. Whether it is theme or original the SSCS can provide a performance suitable to your needs. To enquire about using any members of the demo squad please click here

Kyle Rowling	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. To contact Kyle click here.
Lawrence Carmichael	Lawrence Carmichael - Actor, Singer, Fight Director. As a performer, Lawrence has worked professionally with a wide range of companies including QTC, National Stage Co., Strut & Fret, CUT Theatre & Harlos Productions. As Fight Director, Lawrence is fully qualified by the 'Society of Australian Fight Directors' with over 8 years experience in stage combat, excelling in most weapon styles as well as unarmed & slapstick. Lawrence has taught and choreographed for many theatre & film companies including Sydney Theatre Company, Ensemble Theatre Co., David Atkins Productions, Opera Australia, NIDA, Theatre Nepean, The Australian Institute Of Music, CUT, Harlos, Blackdog & After Glow Prod. Lawrence is also a respected acting coach, having taught for various institutes as well as running his own successful acting studio.
Michael Pentecost	Michael Pentecost has been a professional actor for the past 20-something years and has been involved in stage combat for pretty much all that time. He originally trained under the legendary John Waller in London, before crossing swords with Lawrence Carmichael in a Sydney production of King Lear several years ago and learning about the Sydney Stage Combat School. He is currently an Advanced stage combatant.
Trish Cotter	Patricia is a professional actor, whose passion together with her combat training and drama teaching, is the 'classics'. Having played most of Shakespeare's gutsiest women, such as Juliet, Ophelia, Rosalind and many more for the Shakespeare by the Sea Company; she has also toured for two years with the Bell Shakespeare Company, on their production of The Comedy of Errors and for their Actors At Work program. Recently she has played nurse Ally on All Saints, and a bare-knuckled fighting Russian terrorist for the ABC's Double the Fist. She is proficient in Rapier & Dagger, Quarterstaff, unarmed combat, broadsword etc. She is also a competent Harness Flyer (as performed in Pan at the Capitol Theatre as Wendy Darling.) She is currently performing as Thaisa in Cut Theatre's Queen Lere.
Nicole Verhooven	Nicole graduated from UWS Theatre Nepean in 2003. A semester of unarmed combat in her second year of University led her to the SSCS. She received her Basic Certificate in June 2004 and her Intermediate in February 2005. She is now versed in the art of unarmed, rapier and dagger, single sword, sword and buckler and her favorites, quarter staff and French small sword. As a tutor at MYT, she is directing her first full length production Peter Pan. She is currently training for her Advanced Certificate and looks forward to once again ‘beating up the boys’. She is currently understudying Trish Cotter as Thaisa in Cut Theatre's production of Queen Lere.
Clive Hobson	Deciding to merge his passion for fencing and theatre, Clive Hobson began his stage combat training with the BASSC in London . After moving to Sydney in late 2004, he jumped at the opportunity to continue his studies with the Sydney Stage Combat School , his sights now firmly set on attaining his Advanced certification. His theatre credits include roles in such diverse shows as Return to the Forbidden Planet, 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, West Side Story, Singing in the Rain, Crazy for you and Les Miserables.
Mitchell Stitt	Mitchell has been a member of SAFDI since 2000, and is competent in Unarmed, Quarter Staff, Sword and Buckler, Rapier and Dagger, Single Sword and Small Sword. He has been working as an actor for six years on both stage and T.V. Mitchell trained with State of Play for 3 years. He is a skilled physical performer having trained with Legs on The Wall. His skills include; Tae Kwon Doe, Jujitsu, Boxing, Archery, Small arms (FA/88 Steyer , SLR, .303, .22) having spent three years training with AIRTC (Air Training Corps).
Blake Wells	Blake Wells is currently in his final year of training at The Actors College of Theatre and Television. During his second year of study Blake was introduced to stage combat and since then has never looked back. Receiving his Basic Certificate late 2004, he went on to complete the Intermediate Certificate in February 2005. Blake is competent in Unarmed, Rapier and Dagger, Single Sword, Quarterstaff, Sword and Buckler and what is quickly becoming his favorite French Small Sword. Blake was fight captain for his college's recent production of Vinegar Tom, and is currently in training for his Advanced Certificate.
Michael Hamilton	Michael graduated from UWS Theatre Nepean in 2003 where he was introduced to stage combat through a semester of unarmed work. A very physical performer, he subsequently went on to complete his Intermediate Training and is now working towards his advanced. His theatre credits include Car Gods Burn (Adam) for Penrith's Q Theatre, An Australian Story: What's The Use of Worrying (Gar), The Mastersingers of Nuremberg for Opera Australia (fighter), The Tempest (Ferdinand) and Macbeth (Macduff). He worked on the Television Mini-Series of Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars as a Puppeteer, and can also be seen (his shoes) dressed as a Panda in the ABC's Double The Fist. Also an acrobat, Michael enjoys combining Acrobatics with stage combat whenever appropriate. Competent in Unarmed and bladed combat.


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