Instructor Staff

A graduate of the York University BFA Acting Conservatory program, Daniel has been performing, directing and teaching stage combat professionally since 1991. He is the owner of Rapier Wit, Canada’s oldest stage combat school and production company, and a founding member of the Riot A.C.T. stunt team. He is also a founding member of Fight Directors Canada, and one of only eight FDC Fight Masters in Canada. Daniel has created fights for companies such as The Stratford Festival (5 seasons), Canadian Stage, Jesus Christ Superstar Broadway, Volcano Theatre, Actors Repertory Company, Second City, A.C.T. Productions, Shakespeare In the Square, Factory Theatre, Shakespeare in the Rough, Theatre Aquarius, The Actor’s Repertory Company, Theatre Passe Muraille, and The Tarragon Theatre. He is the resident stage combat instructor for Sheridan College, the University of Toronto’s Theatre and Drama Studies Program, and is a frequent instructor at the University of Waterloo. He also teaches stage combat workshops across Canada and internationally; workshop highlights include the Fight Directors Canada National Workshop (Banff, Victoria, Toronto, Montreal), Brock University’s Walker Cultural Leader Series, Boston University, Arcadia University, the International Scuola Brancaleoni Stage Combat Workshop (Italy), and the Paddy Crean International Art of the Sword Workshop (Banff). Daniel is a member of CAEA and ACTRA.

Todd Campbell has been practicing the art of stage combat for over twenty years. A certified Fight Master with Fight Directors Canada, he has created violence for over one hundred theatre and film productions. Todd was a resident fight director at The Stratford Shakespeare Festival for four seasons where he worked on such critically acclaimed productions as Cymbeline, Twelfth Night, Camelot, Dangerous Liaisons and Zastrozzi to name a few. An avid student of historical European martial arts, he has spent his career as a fight director trying to infuse theatrical violence with more historical realism. Todd has had the great opportunity to train with many of the leading experts in historical martial arts and has used this knowledge to create fights that are not only safe and tell the story of the play but are also martially sound.
Todd also created the popular show ‘Duel of Ages’ at the Toronto Fringe (’07) and Next Stage Festivals (’11). An anthology play about the history of dueling, DOA was a vehicle to showcase the talents of FDC members in the Toronto area. Todd is a founding member of the award winning Riot Act stunt team. www.riotact.ca

With over 500 professional credits stretching from Broadway to Stratford to Yellowknife, Simon specializes in all areas: Weaponry, Aerial Flying, Unarmed Combat (Eastern and Western). Fight Master with FDC. Executive Director and Founder of RIOT A.C.T. earning 17 nominations and 8 awards, including Simon for Male Action Performer of the Year 2009 AOF Festival – California.
Simon has also taught over 15,000 people through out Canada, including the first FDC course required certification at Basic Level at George Brown College.  Other institutes of education where he has instructed include York University, U of T Drama Center at UC College, Equity Showcase, Centre for Indigenous Theatre, Randolph Academy.  He holds a Black Belt in Woo Gar Mo Sut, and teaches privately as well with clients including Rachel McAdams, Martin Short, Billy Connolly.
www.simonfon.com  and www.riotact.ca

Andy Ingram is classically trained actor from the University of Toronto / Sheridan Institute of Technology joint Theatre program where he achieved a Specialist Bachelors Degree in Theatre and Drama Studies and won the prestigious Sheridan Silver Medal for graduating Suma Cum Laude. He then attended the University of Toronto Graduate Centre where he earned his Masters in Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies. Andy has been involved in stage combat and fight direction for many years, achieving FDC certification in all levels of performance and the Heart of Rapier Wit Award for Excellence in Performance. Andy is also the 2010 joint-winner of the Paddy Crean Award for Stage Combat. You can be sure to find him hanging around Rapier Wit with the rest of the Rude Mechanicals. Andy’s acting and directing work has been featured prominently in the Toronto-theatre scene. Notably, his directing debut, The Man With a Leek in His Cap, won him the Robert Gill Award for Best Direction at the U of T Drama Festival in 2009. Notable fight directing credits include: Blood Brothers (Rose Theatre Brampton), Macbeth (Georgetown Little Theatre), 3 Desis and a Diva (Orange Shot Productions), Aeroplane Jelly (Tryworks Theatre Co.), Spoons (Straight Camp), Oliver! (Theatre Alive), Man of La Mancha (Globe Music Theatre) and Romeo and Juliet (Rose Theatre).

Kevin is a graduate of the Sheridan College/University of Toronto joint Theatre and Drama Specialist program. He is also a certified Fight Instructor with Fight Directors Canada; an independent non-union stunt coordinator; and a founding member of the internationally award winning stunt team Riot A.C.T. He has choreographed violence at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Theatre by the Bay, and for many productions around Toronto. He has worked with Theatre Front, UNI Theatre, Upstart Crow, Fishbowl Theatre, and other companies too numerous to mention. Kevin is the stunt coordinator for Curious and Unusual Deaths and Close Encounters on The Discovery Channel; and also performs stunts as well whenever he gets the chance to. He has taught at Humber College, Sheridan College, The Randolph Academy, Earl Haig Secondary School, York University Summer Intensive , University of Toronto, Redeemer College , and is a resident instructor at Rapier Wit. To see Kevin and the rest of Riot A.C.T. in action check out Riot A.C.T.’s youtube channel riotactaction, or our webpage at www.riotact.ca. You can also follow Kevin on twitter @kevinfightguy.