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Christopher Duval*
Stan/Fight Choreographer
Chris has worked as an actor, fight director and director at such theatres as South Coast Repertory, Dallas Theater Center, Syracuse Stage, Sacramento Theatre Company, Idaho Repertory Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Utah Opera, Grand Theatre, Salt Lake Acting Company, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, Shakespeare Orange County and 16 years at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He is the Resident Fight Director at Pioneer Theatre Company, and last appeared in Much Ado About Nothing and in One Man, Two Guvnors. He is the Head of the ATP at the University of Utah, is recognized as a Master Teacher (DAI), a Certified Teacher, Certified Fight Director and Theatrical Firearms Instructor (SAFD) and the author of Stage Combat Arts by Bloomsbury Methuen.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States