Paddy Crean 2026
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!
Cristina Ramos
New York, United States
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Cha Ramos (she/ella) is a Drama Desk Award winning fight director (Water for Elephants), industry leading intimacy director, dramaturg, playwright, and performer, with an MFA in theatre from Columbia University. She's as likely to be found in Broadway rehearsal rooms, as on Renaissance Faire stages, as in a comfy chair writing or reading a new play. She has shared her thoughts on staged violence and intimacy on local, national, and international panels, in classrooms and workshops, for HowlRound and the New Yorker, and in three different books (The Intimacy Coordinator’s Guidebook, Dramaturgy of Sex on Stage in Contemporary Theatre, & Supporting Staged Intimacy). Her work can currently be seen on Broadway in the hit new musical comedy Death Becomes Her (fight direction) and the beloved fan favorite &Juliet (intimacy direction).
Casey Kaleba
Washington DC, United States
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Casey Kaleba has staged movement, intimacy, and fights for nearly six hundred productions in theatre, musical theatre, opera, and media. A Certified Teacher and Fight Director with the Society of American Fight Directors, Casey has staged fights for knights, musketeers, princesses, zombies, wolves, pirates, ninjas, and at least one alien tentacle. He has worked throughout the United States, and has been a guest instructor for both Fight Directors Canada and the Nordic Stage Fight Society. He served as an audition choreographer for Marvel Universe Live, smashed fruit on the YouTube show Men At Arms: Reforged, and this workshop will mark thirty years of association with the Paddy Crean workshop. In his spare time Casey holds a PhD in Theatre History and lectures on both film and theatre