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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

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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

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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 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

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: 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)