Fencing Coaches

Mr. Hewlett is a professional actor, director, and fight director. He has choreographed combat at the Kennedy Center, Syracuse Stage, Lincoln Center Institute, Shakespeare & Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Fulton Opera House, New York State Theatre Institute, Merrimack Rep, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Now!, and Boston Theatre Works.

Mr. Hewlett is currently on the faculties of Emerson College, Boston University, and The Boston Conservatory, where he teaches both stage combat and movement for actors. He has previously taught at Brandeis University, and has been a guest instructor at The New England Conservatory and A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training.

As a performer, he has fought on Broadway (SHOGUN), film (HOOK, ARMY OF DARKNESS), and television (BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE). Mr. Hewlett holds an MFA from Brandeis University. He originally studied stage combat at the Academy of Theatrical Combat in Los Angeles under the tutelage of fight master Dan Speaker, and currently works with his mentor Bob Walsh, the former New England representative of the Society of American Fight Directors.

Boston Globe Review - Ted Hewlett's Fight Work, Romeo & Juliet February 2005

Adam McLean
SAFD Certified Teacher

Mr. McLean is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors, a theatre educator, actor, and fight choreographer residing in Boston. Recent teaching credits include Movement at Emerson College and master classes in Stage Combat at Boston University's Opera Institute and the New England Conservatory. He has also taught at SAFD regional workshops across the country and the National Stage Combat Workshops in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mr. McLean holds an MFA in Theatre Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University where he taught Physical Acting to graduate students. At Florida State University he taught Acting, Stage Combat, and master classes in Movement and Stage Combat to graduate opera students.

He has taught and performed at the International Theatre Festival in Sibiu, Romania.

Recent fight direction credits: Giulio Cesare, The Tragedy of Carmen, Corpus Christi, Burn This, Fences, Richard III, MacBeth, Richard II, Man of La Mancha, and Pool of Bethesda, Marat/Sade, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

Rob Najarian
Instructor

Mr Najarian is very active as a professional actor, fight choreographer and educator in Boston and New England. He has taught Stage Combat and Movement at Boston University, Emerson College, Bowdoin College and the Boston Academy for the Arts.

Mr. Najarian received his M.F.A. from The Shakespeare Theatre's Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University and his B.A. from Bowdoin College. He has trained at numerous regional SAFD workshops and several international workshops, most recent he attended Scuola Brancaleoni in Piobbicco, Italy. He trained for two weeks in various weapon styles including military saber and bound fighting, and trained extensively in fight choreography with instructors Jonathan Howell (England), Tim Klotz (England), and Daniel Levinson (Canada).

Recent Fight choreography includes; Don Giovanni (Boston University Opera), Take Me Out, Five by Tenn (Speakeasy Stage), Twelfth Night (Wellesley College Theatre), The Physicists, Hamlet, Slavs, Caligula (Harvard-Radcliffe Theatre), Tommy (Core Stage Company), Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar (Shakespeare Now! Theatre Company), Big Love (Brandeis Theatre Company), Popcorn (Bates College Theatre)

Mr. Walsh is a certified teacher, fight director, and regional representative ('90-'01) for the Society of American Fight Directors, having been a member since its inception. Additionally, he is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and Actors' Equity Association.

Mr. Walsh served as Producing Artistic Director of the American Stage Festival, a year-round Equity theater in southern New Hampshire. He has staged fights at such theaters as American Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, the Huntington Theatre Company, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Portland Stage Company, as well as several theaters Off-Broadway.

He has taught at such schools as Boston University, the University of Connecticut (Storrs), Duke University, M.I.T., Purdue, and Virginia Commonwealth University. He has performed action sequences in commercials, daytime dramas, and in films, most recently, in The Spanish Prisoner and Sundown.