Paddy Crean 2024
Staff
Ian Rose
Philadelphia, USA
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Ian has arranged fights for commercials, film and stage, and been working in the New York and Philadelphia areas for over thirty years. He is a Fight Master with Fight Directors Canada and The Society of American Fight Directors. Ian has worked on Broadway (Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Liev Schrieber and Janet McTeer at the Booth), the Bridewell Theatre in London, MTM Studios in Rome, Riverside Shakespeare and Interborough Repertory Theatre in New York City, the Whole Theatre in New Jersey, the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival, Philadelphia Theatre Company (Adrift in Macao, Chris Durang premiere) and various projects at the Wilma, including James Ijames' FatHam (Pulitzer Prize winning production and New York Times top ten shows of 2021). Ian did fights and created the roles of La Böessiere and Picard in Curio Theatre Company’s recent Symphony for St. Georges. Ian's fights were featured in the documentary Philadelphia: The Great Experiment –Disorder. Ian was a Technical Advisor on the film A Winter’s Tale.
Ian attended his first Paddy Crean International Stage Combat workshop in 1999, fell in love with it and has been lucky to work with the Paddy community over many years, serving on the board, interning, and helping out wherever he was needed.
Kevin Inouye
Eugene, Oregon, USA
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Kevin Inouye is US-based theatre and film artist, author, instructor, and veteran of many Paddy Crean workshops. He's an actor and stunt performer (SAG-AFTRA), a fight choreographer/coordinator (SDC Associate), and lifelong learner who also holds teaching certifications with the National Michael Chekhov Association, Margolis Method International, and the Society of American Fight Directors (Certified Teacher and Theatrical Firearms Instructor). He also runs prop weapons rental business Fight Designer, LLC, and has written The Theatrical Firearms Handbook, The Screen Combat Handbook, and a chapter in Physical Dramaturgy.
Claire Llewellyn
London, England Llewellyn
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Claire trained as an actor (way back when) and fell in love with stage combat during her first year of training. After graduating from Mountiview in 2003, Claire continued to train in stage combat with the British Academy of Dramatic Combat and realised she was WAY better at getting smacked in the face, hit with sticks, stabbed with swords (etc.), and occasionally thrown downstairs, than she was at acting, so she re-trained as a BADC teacher qualifying in 2008. Claire is an Associate Teacher and Fight Director with Rc-Annie and is a Senior Teacher and Examiner with the BADC. Between lockdowns Claire qualified as a Personal Trainer and Mental Health First Aider. She is very excited to be returning as staff at The Paddy and can’t wait to see you all there!
Rico Pfeiffer
Calgary, Canada
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Rico Pfeiffer is a certified Fight Instructor with the Academy of Fight Directors Canada. He is over the moon to be on staff again. Rico has been at every Paddy Crean since 2006. It's actually because of the Paddy that he was able to make connections and got the chance to train with the British Academy of Dramatic Combat. He hopes that every student, both new and old, finds life long friends and connections.
Kay Mak
Calgary, Canada
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Kevin “Kay” Mak is a martial artist, stunt performer, and instructor. Kay began studying wushu at the age of 12 and quickly moved up to instructor 3 years later. He also trained with the Team Hong Kong National Team. In 2008, Kay attended his first Paddy Crean. He also trained in stunts with David Boushey and Daniel Ford Beavis and is a member of the United Stuntmen’s Association. Kay’s stunt work can be seen in such productions as Black Summer on Netflix and in the HBO Series The Last of Us.
Roberto Martinez-Loyo
Mexico City, Mexico
Pronouns Roberto (He/Him)
Pronouns Fernanda (She/Her)
Roberto Martinez-Loyo has studied Western Martial Arts since 2003. In 2001 he trained as a professional stunt performer with the United Stuntmen’s Association and has worked professionally since then. He has acquired further training with several other instructors, becoming both a stunt performer and a stunt coordinator. A member of the IOSP, Art of Combat, Western Martial Arts Coalition, and the HEMA Alliance, he was the co-founder and head instructor of the Brotherhood of Warriors (Hermandad de Guerreros) and is co-founder and one of two head instructors for EFC-Mexico (Elite Fencing Club).
He is currently developing a fighting system with the Chimalli and Maquahuitl (Aztec Shield and Sword), developing it based on interpretation of available codex and images, as well as practical understanding of the weapon system, working alongside different people to develop “safe” training wasters for these weapons.
