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David McCormick
Certified Instructor with Fight Directors Canada
Phone: 778-840-2370
Email: david@playfighting.ca
Height: 6′
Weight: 175 lbs.
Hair: Auburn
Eyes: Grey/Blue
Direction and Fight Choreography
| Hamlet | Fights: Smallsword and dagger | Bard on the Beach |
| Play With Monsters | Fights: Unarmed, Katana | Solo Collective |
| Brave New Play Rites festival | Fights: Unarmed | UBC |
| Fat Pig | Fights: Unarmed | Mitch & Murray Co-op |
| Beauty & The Beast | Fights: Unarmed, dagger | Pembroke Theatre |
| Asleep At the Wheel | Fights: Unarmed; Illusions | Alumnae Theatre |
| Dark City Streets | Fights: Unarmed, pistol | Noble Savage Productions |
| Sherlock Holmes & The First… | Fights: Umbrella-sword, unarmed (19th century-style) | 17 Steps: Fringe 2008 |
| Macbeth | Fights: bailing hooks, unarmed | Forward Theatre |
| Conversations with my Father | Fights: unarmed (historical boxing) | Teatron Productions |
| Romeo & Juliet | Director (including fights: unarmed, staff, sabre, knife, escrima) | Forward Theatre |
| King Lear | Fights: broadsword, sword & shield, spear, axe, dagger, unarmed | Forward Theatre |
| Hamlet | Fights: unarmed, smallsword | Forward Theatre |
| Lifeboat | Fights: unarmed | Forward Theatre |
| Romeo & Juliet | Fights: khopesh (exotic sword), axes, dagger, staff, unarmed | Forward Theatre |
| Macbeth | Fights: cane-sword, staff, dagger, mace, unarmed | Candy Factory Theatre |
| Hamlet: The Horatio Tapes | Fights: rapier & dagger | Candy Factory Theatre |
| Hamlet | Fights: rapier & dagger, sabre | Paradox Theatre |
| Zastrozzi, Master of Discipline | Fights: unarmed, sabre, rapier & dagger, knife, whip | Paradox Theatre |
| Romeo & Juliet | Fights: martial arts, Chinese broadsword, katana, staff, escrima | K-W Little Theatre |
| Twelfth Night | Fights: unarmed, sabre | RavenBlack Productions |
Acting
| Strafe | Stunts | Roaming Cavalier Films | |
| Romeo & Juliet | Principal | Tybalt | Forward Theatre |
| Duel of Ages (Toronto Fringe 2007) | Ensemble | King/Gentleman/Big Bad | True Edge Productions |
| King Lear | Principal | Edgar | Forward Theatre |
| Hamlet | Principal | Laertes | Forward Theatre |
| Romeo & Juliet | Principal | Capulet | Forward Theatre |
| Home of the Brave | Principal | Corp. T.J. Everitt | Teatron Productions |
| Rashomon | Principal | The Samurai | City Centre Theatre |
| Shakespeare’s NHL | Ensemble | Douglas, John of Gaunt | Upstart Crow Productions |
| Macbeth | Principal | MacDuff | Candy Factory Theatre |
| Macbeth | Actor | Lord | Tempest Theatre |
| Zastrozzi, Master of Discipline | Lead | Zastrozzi | Paradox Theatre |
| Romeo & Juliet | Principal | Benvolio | K-W Little Theatre |
Teaching
| Stage Combat: Basic Quarterstaff, Intermediate Martial Arts | FDC Nationals 2014 |
| Stage Combat: Basic Course | Academie Duello |
| Bartitsu and Neo-Bartitsu | Academie Duello |
| Stage Combat: unarmed, sword, quarterstaff | George Brown College (Assistant to Simon Fon) |
| Stage Combat: unarmed | Rapier Wit (Assistant to Daniel Levinson) |
| Stage Combat: sabre | Hamilton Urban Shakespeare workshop |
| Acting, Mime, Stage Combat: broadsword | The Junior Acting Studio, Wilfred Laurier University |
| Stage Combat: unarmed | Cochrane High School |
| Stage Combat: quarterstaff | 1 st Iroquois Venturer Company |
| Stage Combat: unarmed | Cameron Heights Collegiate |
Training and Certification
Occupational First Aid Level II (2012)
Red Cross Standard First Aid Level C (2009)
Fight Directors Canada: Instructor (2009), Advanced Actor-Combatant (2007)
| Daniel Levinson | Stage combat: unarmed, sabre, rapier & dagger, smallsword, broadsword, quarterstaff, sword & shield |
| John Stead | Stunts: high falls, unarmed combat for film, Hong Kong wire work, firearms |
| Ian Rose | Stage combat: Rapier & Cloak, Case of Rapiers, katana, escrima sticks |
| Tony Wolf | Stage combat: re:Action System, “Gun-Fu”, bartitsu: 19th century boxing and cane fighting |
| Casey Kaleba | Stage Blood Effects of Grand Guignol |
| Jean-Francois Gagnon | Stage combat: found/environmental weapon, teaching methodology |
| Jacques Cappelle | Stage combat: smallsword |
| Steve Wilsher | Stage combat: broadsword |
| Simon Fon | Stage combat: martial arts, escrima sticks, Chinese broadsword, nunchaku, katana |
| Ricki Ravits | Stage combat: rapier & dagger |
| Todd Campbell | Stage combat: smallsword |
| Jonathan Howell | Stage combat: smallsword |
| Adrien Young | Stage combat: martial arts |
University of Waterloo , B.A. Drama & Psychology
| William Chadwick | Acting |
| James Binkley | Stage combat: unarmed, saber, firearms |
| Joel Greenberg | Directing |
Special Skills
- Expert in several martial arts: bartitsu, wing chun, Shotokan karate, judo.
- Dialects: North American regionalisms, British Isles, German, Russian, Australian
- Stage blood, special effects, make-up, slight-of-hand
- Fluently bilingual (English/French)