Action by KO
Supplying bespoke action that focuses on the way in which the action affects the characters, driving the narrative through physical storytelling. Providing coordination for Screen, Stage and Live Events, Action by KO is here to make the extremes in your production extraordinary.
With Violence and Love
Whatever it is you’re looking for, whether it be a mass battle scene, epic fantasy fight, bruising hand to hand combat, all out gun fight, or that one hit or fall that happens in your production, you’ve come to the right place. Ensuring the performers’ safety through effective communication, consent led choreography creation and a developed understanding of the actors’ needs during a fight scene, I revel in the problem solving of how we keep one another safe whilst creating action that matters.
Catering to all tastes
My work as a Fight Director draws on my experience as an actor working on stage, screen, as well as live events for clients including English Heritage and the Historic Royal Palace. My experience as a combat instructor shapes my process in negotiating the evolution of the fight and process of rehearsal with the cast. My work as a Stunt/SPACT performer for film and motion capture, experience in historic martial arts practices and firearms training enable me to suit the action to all sensibilities and production types.
Represented as a Fight Director by Neil McNulty at Keddie Scott Associates
Credits
FIGHT DIRECTOR
THE REAL & IMAGINED HISTORY OF THE ELEPHANT MAN (Nottingham Playhouse Theatre & Tour), Dir . Stephen Bailey
MYSTERIA (Site Specific Theatre, Lovere, Italy) Astra Realm Theatre co.
THREE MUSKETEERS (Royal & Derngate Theatre) Dir. Dan McGarry
ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Wise Owl Theatre Co. Tour) Dir. Chris Brookes
NECTA - Music Video - Artist. Daisy Babii - for Lucky 13 Action
THE RED DIAMOND CUT (Short Film), Dir. Nick Toth
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (Curve Theatre Leicester & Tour), Dir. Anthony Almeida
KING & I (World Tour - UK), Associate Dir. David Siebert
ACIS & GALATEA (English National Opera), Dir. Sarah Tipple
CROSS PLATFORM DEVISED PERFORMANCE (Roundhouse), Dir. John Berkavitch
OKLAHOMA (Curve Theatre, Leicester), Dir.
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Curve Theatre, Leicester), Dir.
ROMEO AND JULIET (New Wimbledon Studio), Dir. Charles Spencer Noll
THE CONJURER AND THE MOON (Enter Edem) Dir. Emma Fay
DRY LAND (Jermyn Street Theatre), Dir. Hannah Hauer-King
ASSOCIATE FIGHT DIRECTOR
ROMEO AND JULIET (Shakespeare's Rose Theatre - Blenheim), Dir. Juliet Forster
HAMLET (Shakespeare's Rose Theatre - York), Dir. Damian Cruden
TWELFTH NIGHT (Shakespeare's Rose Theatre - York), Dir. Joyce Branagh
THE TEMPEST (Shakespeare's Rose Theatre - York), Dir. Phillip Franks
MACBETH (Shakespeare's Rose Theatre), Dir. Damian Cruden
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM (Shakespeare's Rose Theatre), Dir. Juliet Forster
MACBETH (Bussey Building), Dir. Paul Tomlinson
Fight Reel Footage for BSR Trainees Eloise Gray and Morgan Beveridge. Camera - John Ferrer