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Christopher DuVal*

Associate Fight Director
Fight Director, Dead Man's Cell Phone, Paradise Lost; All's Well That Ends Well Assistant Fight Director, Henry VIII

In ten seasons at OSF: Acted in over 25 productions, including George Tesman in The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, Autolycus in The Winters Tale, the Dromios in The Comedy of Errors and others.

Other theatres: Utah Shakespearean Festival, Shakespeare Orange County, South Coast Repertory, Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, John Anson Ford Theatre, Riverside Civic Light Opera, Syracuse Stage.

Other credits: fight director for regional theatres, colleges, and universities; productions include The Birds, Private Lives, The Interrogation of Nathan Hale, Good as New, Oleanna, She Stoops To Folly (South Coast Repertory Theatre); Treasure Island (Sacramento Theatre Company); Othello (Laguna Playhouse); Romeo and Juliet (Utah Shakespearean Festival tour), Julius Caesar (Shakespeare Orange County), and others. Teaching: guest instructor, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, California State University Fresno, Southern Oregon University, Southern Utah University, and others.

Professional affiliations: Association of Theatre Movement Educators, Voice and Speech Trainers Association.

Education: MFA, University of California, Irvine; BA, California State University Fullerton. Recognized Full Instructor with Dueling Arts International, Aikido Black Belt (Shodan), The Society of American Fight Directors.

* member of Actors' Equity Association

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Full time: 325
Part time: 175
Average length of service: 8 years
Volunteers: 600

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