2020 TA/Intern Applications
Thank you for the wonderful applications this year! We will be in touch regarding next year's workshop.
We are currently accepting applications for a combined TA/Intern positions for the 2019 Allegheny Alley Fight until March 22, 2020.
We are looking for talented, enthusiastic staffers who are interested in being involved with the inner workings of a regional stage combat workshop! Candidates should be strong actor-combatants who are comfortable and competent with all 8 SAFD recognized weapon disciplines, partnering with both instructors and students, and assisting with weapon movement and classroom management.
We are typically able to be on campus for load-in between 1-3pm on Friday (May 15) and hold a staff meeting and tour of the facilities around 5pm. We are typically finished loading out before 7pm on Sunday (May 17). Availability for both is strongly preferred. While we are not able to offer compensation at this time, we feed staff lunch and snacks and can typically provide airport/train station pickups and drop offs. Weapons renewals can be discussed, but depend on space availability and interested parities would need to be available before noon on Friday, May 15.
For those candidates interested, we have a limited number of openings in the workshop schedule for TA-led classes. These classes will be observed by a member of the workshop faculty, who will provide feedback. Applicants interested in this teaching opportunity should include 2-3 class proposals along with their application. This is not a requirement and will not affect consideration of any application.
Please send a brief statement of interest, combat resume, and (if applicable) 2-3 class proposals to AAFworkshop@gmail.com by March 22. We look forward to your applications!
We are currently accepting applications for a combined TA/Intern positions for the 2019 Allegheny Alley Fight until March 22, 2020.
We are looking for talented, enthusiastic staffers who are interested in being involved with the inner workings of a regional stage combat workshop! Candidates should be strong actor-combatants who are comfortable and competent with all 8 SAFD recognized weapon disciplines, partnering with both instructors and students, and assisting with weapon movement and classroom management.
We are typically able to be on campus for load-in between 1-3pm on Friday (May 15) and hold a staff meeting and tour of the facilities around 5pm. We are typically finished loading out before 7pm on Sunday (May 17). Availability for both is strongly preferred. While we are not able to offer compensation at this time, we feed staff lunch and snacks and can typically provide airport/train station pickups and drop offs. Weapons renewals can be discussed, but depend on space availability and interested parities would need to be available before noon on Friday, May 15.
For those candidates interested, we have a limited number of openings in the workshop schedule for TA-led classes. These classes will be observed by a member of the workshop faculty, who will provide feedback. Applicants interested in this teaching opportunity should include 2-3 class proposals along with their application. This is not a requirement and will not affect consideration of any application.
Please send a brief statement of interest, combat resume, and (if applicable) 2-3 class proposals to AAFworkshop@gmail.com by March 22. We look forward to your applications!
2020 Instructors
FM Michael Chin
Michael G. Chin is a professional actor (AEA, AFTRA, SAG) as well as a sanctioned Master instructor and choreographer with the Society of American Fight Directors. He serves as fight director in residence for both The White Horse and Pan Asian Rep in NYC. He has taught/choreographed/consulted in the New York area on Broadway as well as The Mint, Murder-To-Go, Theatreworks USA, La Mama ETC, National Asian American Thea Co, Ma-yi, The Public, Negro Ensemble Company, The Vineyard, NYU, Henry St Settlement, Baruch College, The Drama League, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Montclair State Univ, New York Renaissance Fest and The NY Fringe Thea Festival . Nationally he has worked at The Barter, Celebration Barn, Burt Reynolds Inst for Thea., Muhlenberg Summer Festival, Univ of Tulsa, The Crossroads, Brown Univ, Cape Cod Community College, BYU, The Hangar, Dickinson College, Louisiana Tech, NY State Theatre Inst.,Tennesee Rep, Merrimack Theatre, Off The Square Thea in Wyoming, Gainesville Theatre Alliance, Univ of Northern Colorado, IUP and Yale School of Drama. Mr Chin currently teaches at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, as well as at Brooklyn College,Pace University, Juilliard and teaches privately for Fights4 all in New York City. He is a student of Northern Style, Shaolin Long Fist Kung Fu.
Michael G. Chin is a professional actor (AEA, AFTRA, SAG) as well as a sanctioned Master instructor and choreographer with the Society of American Fight Directors. He serves as fight director in residence for both The White Horse and Pan Asian Rep in NYC. He has taught/choreographed/consulted in the New York area on Broadway as well as The Mint, Murder-To-Go, Theatreworks USA, La Mama ETC, National Asian American Thea Co, Ma-yi, The Public, Negro Ensemble Company, The Vineyard, NYU, Henry St Settlement, Baruch College, The Drama League, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Montclair State Univ, New York Renaissance Fest and The NY Fringe Thea Festival . Nationally he has worked at The Barter, Celebration Barn, Burt Reynolds Inst for Thea., Muhlenberg Summer Festival, Univ of Tulsa, The Crossroads, Brown Univ, Cape Cod Community College, BYU, The Hangar, Dickinson College, Louisiana Tech, NY State Theatre Inst.,Tennesee Rep, Merrimack Theatre, Off The Square Thea in Wyoming, Gainesville Theatre Alliance, Univ of Northern Colorado, IUP and Yale School of Drama. Mr Chin currently teaches at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, as well as at Brooklyn College,Pace University, Juilliard and teaches privately for Fights4 all in New York City. He is a student of Northern Style, Shaolin Long Fist Kung Fu.
FD Michael Johnson
Michael has had the privilege of being one of the main teachers at the Alley Fight since its inception and is happy to return for another year.
His recent fight direction includes Flyin’ West at the University of Maryland, Too Heavy For Your Pockets with George Street Playhouse, Julius Caesar for both TASIS in Lugano, Switzerland and Brown/Trinity Rep, Carmen at Mill City Summer Opera and, And In This Corner, Cassius Clay — which he also directed — co-produced by Childs Play and Black Theatre Troupe in Phoenix. Michael also served as Stunt Consultant for Rep Stage’s production of Kill Move Paradise.
Other workshops Michael has taught at include the Nationals Stage Combat Workshop, the New York Summer Sling (which he co-hosts with Michael Chin a the other members of Fights 4), the Brawl of America, Cease and Desist, Philadelphia Cheesesteak, Dueling Arts International’s Winter Workshop, and the A-Town Throw Down. In January, Michael had the pleasure of teaching at the Winter Wonderland Workshop, again, as well as the WWW Knife Intensive, where he had the pleasure to co-teach with his old friend, Don Preston.
Michael has had the privilege of being one of the main teachers at the Alley Fight since its inception and is happy to return for another year.
His recent fight direction includes Flyin’ West at the University of Maryland, Too Heavy For Your Pockets with George Street Playhouse, Julius Caesar for both TASIS in Lugano, Switzerland and Brown/Trinity Rep, Carmen at Mill City Summer Opera and, And In This Corner, Cassius Clay — which he also directed — co-produced by Childs Play and Black Theatre Troupe in Phoenix. Michael also served as Stunt Consultant for Rep Stage’s production of Kill Move Paradise.
Other workshops Michael has taught at include the Nationals Stage Combat Workshop, the New York Summer Sling (which he co-hosts with Michael Chin a the other members of Fights 4), the Brawl of America, Cease and Desist, Philadelphia Cheesesteak, Dueling Arts International’s Winter Workshop, and the A-Town Throw Down. In January, Michael had the pleasure of teaching at the Winter Wonderland Workshop, again, as well as the WWW Knife Intensive, where he had the pleasure to co-teach with his old friend, Don Preston.
CT Darrell Rushton
Darrell Rushton is currently an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Frostburg State University. He has been a Certified Teacher since 2007, a Theatrical Firearms Safety Instructor since 2010, and a SAFD member since his first workshop; the 2000 NSCW. He has taught stage combat regionally and across the country at the Rumble in the Rockies, Seattle Sockeye, Winter Wonderland Workshop and the NSCW. He has been Fight Director for numerous productions at Frostburg State, Ball State University (Assistant Professor of Movement and Acting), the Cumberland Theatre, and National Tours with Windwood Theatricals. Union Member of AEA, AFTRA and SAG, with acting credits in New York, Washington, DC, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Florida and Maryland.
Darrell Rushton is currently an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Frostburg State University. He has been a Certified Teacher since 2007, a Theatrical Firearms Safety Instructor since 2010, and a SAFD member since his first workshop; the 2000 NSCW. He has taught stage combat regionally and across the country at the Rumble in the Rockies, Seattle Sockeye, Winter Wonderland Workshop and the NSCW. He has been Fight Director for numerous productions at Frostburg State, Ball State University (Assistant Professor of Movement and Acting), the Cumberland Theatre, and National Tours with Windwood Theatricals. Union Member of AEA, AFTRA and SAG, with acting credits in New York, Washington, DC, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Florida and Maryland.
CT Kevin Inouye
Kevin Inouye is a SAFD Certified Teacher and Theatrical Firearms Instructor, SAG-AFTRA stunt performer, and a Certified Teacher with the National Michael Chekhov Association. He moved to Cleveland last year, where he serves as Assistant Professor of Movement, Acting, & Stage Combat for Case Western Reserve University and the CWRU/Cleveland Playhouse MFA Program. In addition to serving as resident fight designer for several local companies, Kevin runs prop weapons rental company Fight Designer, LLC and is a published author; In addition to articles and a book chapter, his first book, The Theatrical Firearms Handbook, is well into its second print run, and he is under contract for a new title on screen combat. Kevin has been active in both the SAFD and the International Order of the Sword & Pen since 1998, and has worked in MD, VA, DC, WA, WY, ID, OR, OH, IN, and taught stage combat and other topics around the US and in Canada.
Kevin Inouye is a SAFD Certified Teacher and Theatrical Firearms Instructor, SAG-AFTRA stunt performer, and a Certified Teacher with the National Michael Chekhov Association. He moved to Cleveland last year, where he serves as Assistant Professor of Movement, Acting, & Stage Combat for Case Western Reserve University and the CWRU/Cleveland Playhouse MFA Program. In addition to serving as resident fight designer for several local companies, Kevin runs prop weapons rental company Fight Designer, LLC and is a published author; In addition to articles and a book chapter, his first book, The Theatrical Firearms Handbook, is well into its second print run, and he is under contract for a new title on screen combat. Kevin has been active in both the SAFD and the International Order of the Sword & Pen since 1998, and has worked in MD, VA, DC, WA, WY, ID, OR, OH, IN, and taught stage combat and other topics around the US and in Canada.
2020 TA/Intern team
application information coming in Feb. 2020
Coordinators
Tonya Lynn
Gretchen Breslawski
Tonya and Gretchen comprise two thirds of Eclectic Mayhem, the producing entity behind the Allegheny Alley Fight.
Gretchen Breslawski
Tonya and Gretchen comprise two thirds of Eclectic Mayhem, the producing entity behind the Allegheny Alley Fight.
Staff Emeritus
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Michael Hood helped to found the Allegheny Alley Fight out of IUP, then helped move it to Pittsburgh proper. The workshop would not exist without his continued work and dedication and we wish him the best retirement!
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CT Michael Hood
Michael Hood, BA magna cum laude Arizona State University, MA/MFA University of New Orleans has worked professionally as actor, director, and fight arranger. He was a member of the faculty of the department of theatre at the University of Alaska Anchorage for 22 years, and served as department chair for 10 of those years and was associate dean of Arts and Sciences for another 6. A one-time UNO club sabre fencer, he has choreographed fights for the theatre since 1975. In addition to numerous university productions, he has done fights for the New Orleans Opera, the Alaska Repertory Theatre, the Sakhalin International Chekhov Centre and the Khabarovosk Theatre for Young Audiences, both in Russia and for Unseam'd Shakespeare in Pittsburgh. He currently resides with his wife Kitty in Indiana, Pennsylvania, where he recently retired as Dean of the IUP College of Fine Arts. Michael serves on the Board of Trustees and as past President of the National Theatre Conference and is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. He has been happily and proudly active with the SAFD since 1979.
Michael Hood, BA magna cum laude Arizona State University, MA/MFA University of New Orleans has worked professionally as actor, director, and fight arranger. He was a member of the faculty of the department of theatre at the University of Alaska Anchorage for 22 years, and served as department chair for 10 of those years and was associate dean of Arts and Sciences for another 6. A one-time UNO club sabre fencer, he has choreographed fights for the theatre since 1975. In addition to numerous university productions, he has done fights for the New Orleans Opera, the Alaska Repertory Theatre, the Sakhalin International Chekhov Centre and the Khabarovosk Theatre for Young Audiences, both in Russia and for Unseam'd Shakespeare in Pittsburgh. He currently resides with his wife Kitty in Indiana, Pennsylvania, where he recently retired as Dean of the IUP College of Fine Arts. Michael serves on the Board of Trustees and as past President of the National Theatre Conference and is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. He has been happily and proudly active with the SAFD since 1979.
