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Curriculum Vitae

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Fight Direction (140k PDF download)

Acting (112k PDF download)

Biographies

Teaching

GEOFFREY KENT has worked as an instructor of stage combat in three countries and coast to coast within the United States. Based out of Denver, Colorado, his current teaching positions include the National Theatre Conservatory (a graduate program associated with the Denver Center for the Perfoming Arts) and the University of Denver. Recent adjunct faculty/guest artist positions include the North Carolina School of the Arts, Louisiana State University's graduate acting program and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Geoffrey has instucted at numerous national and international conferences including the Paddy Crean International Stage Combat Workshop in Canada and the Advanced Actor/Combatant Workshop for the National Stage Combat Workshops in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has appeared at regional workshops in Chicago, Seattle, Louisiana and New York City and is the coordinator of The Rumble in the Rockies, an annual workshop hosted by the Denver Center. His popular master classes include Western Gun Tricking, Good Cop/Bad Cop, Barroom Swashbuckling, Gratuitous Knife Kills and many many more.

Fight Direction

GEOFFREY KENT's Equity fight directing credits include Dirty Story, Skull in Connemara, The Lonesome West and King Hedley II (all with the Denver Center for the Perfoming Arts), Moon Over Buffalo for the Arvada Center, Fences and Cloud Tectonics for Curious Theatre Company, I Hate Hamlet and Wait Until Dark with the Little Theatre of the Rockies as well as the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's 2004 season: Anthony & Cleopatra, Romeo & Juliet and The Comedy of Errors. Selected AGMA credits include Julius Caesar, Rigoletto, Porgy & Bess and Don Giovanni for Opera Colorado, Carmen, The Face on the Barroom Floor and Goriana for Central City Opera, Romeo & Juliet for the Aspen/Sante Fe Ballet and MacBeth for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Geoffrey has also staged countless fights for graduate & undergraduate universities across the country as well as dozens of local Colorado theatres and schools. Geoff is one of only fourty-three fight directors recognized by the Society of American Fight Directors.

Acting

GEOFFREY KENT's recent acting credits include Antipholus of Syracuse and Antipholus of Ephesus in Comedy of Errors (nomination Denver Post Ovation Award Best Actor in a Comedy 2004), Laertes in Hamlet and Don John/Cooter/Clerk in Much Ado About Nothing, all with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Other selected classical roles: Romeo in OpenStage's Romeo & Juliet, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing with Ctrl-X and Sailor/Ensemble in the Denver Center Theatre Company production of Hamlet, directed by Anthony Powell. Contemporary roles include Pale in Burn This and Crow in Shepard's The Tooth of Crime, both with Dark Night Theatre, Daisy in Baby with the Bathwater for Actors Ensemble, Hamlet in Fortinbras with South Suburban and Mike in the L.I.D.A Project's production of Saved, directed by Chip Walton. Geoffrey also covered multiple roles (Midas, Orpheus, etc.) for the long running regional premiere of Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses with the Avenue Theatre (Denver Post Ovation Award for Best Drama, 2004). Selected children's theatre includes Fleshlumpeater, etc. in Arvada Center's The Big Friendly Giant (Denver Post Ovation Award Best Children's Theatre Production, 2004) and Beast in Belle & the Beast for Nomad Theatre.