Tim Klotz

 

Fight Director/Instructor

   

Hair

Light Brown

Height

5’11”

Build

Athletic

Equity membership no.

M00156707

Qualifications

Certified Teacher, British Academy of Dramatic Combat
Fight Director, Fight Directors Canada

Training and Education

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
            2 year postgraduate Acting Course graduated 2000 with Distinction
            Apprenticeship as fight instructor 1996-97

Virginia Commonwealth University – BFA Acting – Cum Laude ‘94

Society of American Fight Directors – one of 14 instructors selected for
Teacher Training Workshop 1998

Teaching, workshop co-ordination and curriculum development includes:

Drama Centre London- Ongoing
  Head of Stage Combat for leading UK Drama School

YoungBlood Limited

 

Lead Instructor/curriculum Developer
Ongoing Stage Combat Classes London 2002-2005
Spring Intensive 2004
Summer Intensive 2005 at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA) London
Summer Intensive 2005-2008 Drama Centre London
Fight Director/Advanced Actor Training Workshop In Italy- 'The Brancaleoni Challenge' 2006

BADC Summer Intensive 2002, 2003, 2004

 

London – Principal Instructor for Basic and Advanced Sections

YoungBlood Dublin Fights on Film Workshop – hosted by the Gaiety School of Acting

 

Co-ordinator and workshop founder- unarmed instructor 2003, 2005

YoungBlood Amsterdam Advanced Workshop – hosted by the Theatre School Amsterdam

 

Project Administrator and workshop founder- curriculum development for 2004

Belfast Cinemagic Film Festival

 

Instructor for two-day Fights on Film Workshop 2002,2003

The International Paddy Crean Workshop

 

The Stratford Festival, Ontario – The Banff Centre – Alberta, Canada
Edinburgh Festival, Scotland – Folger Library – Washington DC

Rendezvous, South Africa Workshop

 

Instructor Summer 2001 – University of Pretoria

Oxford School of Drama

 

Instructor Spring Term 2001 – BADC adjudicated course

The Nashville Ballet

  Fight Director- 'Romeo and Juliet' 2004 - revival 2008
 

Instructor to Paul Vasterling Artistic Director and Choreographer - 'Robin Hood' 1998

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg Virginia

 

Instructor and Fight Director for Program Development

San Jose Smallsword Workshop

 

Head Instructor smallsword and Napoleonic sabre

The BADC West Country Workshop

 

Founder, Co-ordinator and Instructor 1996-1998

Virginia Department of Education, The Art of Combat for Stage and Film

 

Stage Combat Instructor, Summer 1997

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Bristol, UK

 

Apprentice Teacher for three terms 1996-97
Assistant to Master Teacher Jonathan Howell (Former Chairman BADC/British Equity Fight Directors Register)

The Virginia Tea Party Workshop

 

Associate Co-ordinator and Assistant Teacher to Master Joseph Martinez

Longwood College Farmville, Virginia

 

Instructor – SAFD adjudicated course

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, UK

 

Summer Term 1995 – teaching assistant to UK Master Teacher Henry Marshall

Fight Directing and coordinating:

Shaespeare's Globe: Master of Combat
  Troilus and Cressida - 2005 - Director Giles Block
lil logo Lyric Hammersmith: Fight Director
  Absolute Beginners- 2007- Director Liam Steel
ll Watford Palace Theatre: Fight Director
  An English Tragedy- 2007 - Director Di Trevis
ll Agile Films: Fight Director
  'You and Me' Music Video for band One Night Only - Director Lucy Cash - 2008
ll The Tobacco Factory Bristol
  Fight Director for Robin Hood 2005 - Director Richard DCosta
Treasure Island 2006 - Director Dan Danson
ll Agile Films: Fight Director
  'The Hardest Part' - 2008 Short Film
ll Elysian Films : Fight Director
  'Scarred' - Runner up Short Film - PlanetOUT/ Sundance Film Festival - Director Damien Rea
ll Talon Arts - Fight Director
  Caligula- 2007- Tim Out Critics Award
BBC- Rogue Traders Series 4: Fight director
  Intro to program 6 of series - Director Lisa Sharps

Sony: Mocap Supervisor and Additional Fight Direction

 

Killzone 2

Madame Tussauds London 2004
  The Warrirors Experience- Live Action Director including H+S advising, casting and Fight Direction
Voodoodog Films for Channel 4 TV
  Coordinating Fight Director for Fisticuffs- directed by Miranda Pennell

Century Films Ltd for Channel 4 TV

 

Fight Director for Falling Apart (BAFTA 2003)
Dir. Brian Hill.  Starring Hermione Norris and Mark Strong.

SEGA

 

Spartan: Total Warrior: Principal Motion Capture multi-role combat/acting performer in PS2 game

SEGA

 

Medieval Total War II: Fight Director and Principal Motion Capture multi-role combat/acting performer in Best selling PC game

Ronan & Alexander Productions
  Fight Director- Four Knights in Knaresborough - Directed by Peter Farago
Drama Centre London
  Fight Director for The Dutchess of Malfi - Diected by Di Trevis
Lost Luggage Productions
  Fight Director for A Patch of Blue - Directed by Bronwyn Carr
Cambridge Arts Theatre
  Fight Director for The Comedy of Errors - Directed by Laura Baggaley

Holland Park Shakespeare Festival 2003,2004,2005 for RJ Williamson Company

 

Fight Director for Hamlet, 12th Night, As You Like It and Romeo and Juliet

Haymarket Theatre and Mu-lan British Chinese Theatre Company

 

Fight Director for Romeo and Juliet.  Dir. Alisdair Ramsey and Paul Courtney Hyu

Imaginary Films- London

 

Team One- UK Martial Arts film. Dir. Ray Brady
Assistant Director of Fights – head of Fight Department co-ordinating over 40 fight scenes.
Supervised casting of fight performers.

Golden Swords at Shakespeare’s Globe with Andy Fraser

 

Co-choreographed, Prisoner of Zenda
Fight Director, Spanish Swordplay

Union Theatre, I Am a Camera production

 

The Rival Queens.  Dir. Jane Clarke

Palm Tree Film Productions UK

 

Co-fight arranger with Toby Gaffney, Winter Warrior.  Dir. Robbie Moffat

Greystone, USA for The History Channel

 

Conquest Additional Choreography – nine documentary episodes

Centre for Voice – 2001, Tobacco Factory, Bristol, UK

 

West Side StoryDir. Peter Nichols

Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory

 

Co-Fight Director , King Lear

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

 

The Mysteries, Alice Through the Looking Glass, As You Like It, Macbeth

Virginia Shakespeare Festival

 

Twelfth Night, Hamlet

Shenandoah Shakespeare Festival, Virginia

 

Macbeth.  Dir. Jim Warren

The Ramshorn Theatre, Glasgow

 

Armed… Chancey and Graceless, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off

Longwood College (University) Virginia

 

Cyrano de Bergerac, True West, Romeo and Juliet

Kings Head Theatre, London

 

Ring Round the Moon

Greenwich Studio Theatre, London

 

Macbeth

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Virginia

 

The West Indian, Richard III

Skills:

Stage Fighting Performance

Advanced BADC Actor/Combatant certificate – awarded at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School July 1997.  Renewed July 2000.  Also recognised as an Actor/Combatant by the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD) and Fight Directors, Canada!

Fencing

Foil epee and sabre

Martial Arts

Aikido, Shorin Ryu Karate, Sanjuro

Music

Voice – tenor

Sports

Swimming, horse riding, strong swimmer, American football, baseball, fitness training

Dialects

North American and British dialects

Other

Full clean driving licence
St John's Ambulance/Red Cross First Aid and CPR Certified