NICK GISONDE
DIRECTOR WRITER DESIGNER
FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER PRODUCER
SAG-AFTRA
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FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY/STUNT COORDINATOR
RESUME
Film
The Honey Trap
Just Cause
The Strawberry Girl
Towers
Broadway
A View from the Bridge
1998 Tony Award – Best Revival
Off Broadway
Beautiful Thing
New York
Macbeth
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
Henry IV - Parts I & II
El Cid
Bent
Cymbeline
Snakebite
Love’s Labour’s Lost
When You Coming Back Red Rider
What Will You Do When I’m Gone
Richard II
Opera
Don Giovanni
Rigoletto
The Magic Flute
Carmen
The Rape of Lucretia
Samson et Dalila
Werther
Rodelinda
Così Fan Tutte
The Return of Ulysses
Falstaff
Madama Butterfly
Don Giovanni
The Stone Guest (Dargomyzhsky)
La Bohème
Les Contes d’Hoffman
Don Giovanni
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Regional
West Side Story
Pippin
Grease
Kiss Me Kate
Private Lives
The Fourposter
Fiddler on the Roof
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Hamlet (Co-directed with James Karcher)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Opera Scenes
Street Scene (Sam/Vincent Fight, Act I)
Romeo et Juliette (Act II Finale)
Of Mice and Men (Curley’s Wife's Death)
Don Giovanni (Act I, scene I)
Live Action
Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire - 1995
Co-directed fights with Tom Laitinen
Workshops
University of Kentucky
Kentucky County Day School
Bay View Music Festival
Unarmed, Knife, Choking, Falls
Unarmed
Unarmed
Unarmed, Nightstick
Assistant / Fight Captain to J. Steven White
Unarmed, Falls
Broadsword, Shield, Axe, Spear, Unarmed, Battles
Single Sword (Épée)
Broadsword, Shield, Flail, Staff, Mass Battles
Broadsword
Unarmed, Knife, Throat Slashing
Single Sword (Épée)
Unarmed, Grappling
Small sword
Unarmed
Hammer Bludgeoning
Broadsword, Staff, Shovel
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Saber, Cane and Cloak, Club, Unarmed
Knife, Unarmed
Mass Battle, Broadsword, Spear, Axe, Dagger, Unarmed
Mob Riot, Knife, Unarmed, Gun shot
Self Inflicted Stab, Fall
Stage Violance Consultant - Mob Riot, Abimélech Death
Stage Violance Consultant - Self-Inflicted Gunshot
Stage Violance Consultant - Stabs
Unarmed, Bar Room Brawl
Arrow Shooting, Falls, Knife, Throat Slashing
Unarmed, Broom, Falls, Rolls, Slapstick
Stage Violance Consultant - Jigai Ceremony
Cane, Letter Opener, Unarmed, Laptop
Rapier
Prop Food, Mock Mass Battle, Falls
Single Sword (Épée)
Rapier
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Knife, Unarmed, Mass Rumble, Gun shot, Falls
Knife Stab, Execution Sequence
Unarmed
Unarmed, Falls, Rolls, Grappling
Unarmed, Grappling, Falls
Unarmed
Riot, Sticks, Rifles
Children’s Theater - Mimed Sword Fight
Rapier
Unarmed
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Unarmed
Quarterstaff, Dagger, Unarmed
Grappling, Neck Break
Rapier
Broadsword, Axe and Shield, Quarterstaff, Dagger,
Unarmed
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Unarmed
Unarmed
Single Rapier, Rapier and Dagger, Broadsword, Unarmed, Movement
Domingo Martin
Paul Krisikos
Gian Luigi Polidoro
Michael Goldberg
Roundabout Theater Company
Neil Simon Theater, Michael Mayer
Cherry Lane Theater, Gary Griffin
Endless River Arts
Interborough Rep Theater, Vivian Hasbrook
Ring of Fire Productions, Brad Brown
Pendragon Ens. co-directed with Risa Renae Harman
New Voices Theater Ensemble
Riverside Park Shakespeare Company
New York Short Play Festival, David Grabarkewitz
National Shakespeare Conservatory, Sue Lawless
Actors’ Loft, Maggie Maes
New York Short Play Festival
Trinity Players, Anthony Patton
South Bend Lyric Opera
South Bend Lyric Opera
Bay View Music Festival
Bay View Music Festival, George Cederquist
Stony Brook University, Ted Altschuler
Tulsa Opera, Crystal Manich
Boston Lyric Opera, Crystal Manich
Pittsburgh Opera, Crystal Manich
Bay View Music Festival, Sarah Stone
Opera Omnia, Crystal Manich
Bay View Music Festival, Sarah Stone
Pittsburgh Opera, Crystal Manich
Bay View Music Festival, Crystal Manich
Stony Brook University, Dr. David Lawton
Bay View Music Festival, Brian Robertson
Virginia Commonwealth University, Michelle Gulick
Bay View Music Festival, David Morelock
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Bay View Music Festival, Galia Backel
Bay View Music Festival, George Cenderquist
Bay View Music Festival, Linnea George-Kupfer
Bay View Music Festival, Montgomery Davis
Bay View Music Festival, Bard Suverkrop
Bay View Music Festival, Sarah May
Bay View Music Festival, James Haffner
Bay View Music Festival, Rob Branch
Castle Shakespeare Rep Theater, Stan Barber
National Shakespeare Conservatory, Sue Lawless
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Bay View Music Festival - SOARS, Sarah Stone
Bay View Music Festival - SOARS
Sugar Creek Symphony and Song, Crystal Manich
Bay View Music Festival, Risa Renae Harman
Mount Hope Estate
STUNT PERFORMER/STAGE COMBATANT CREDITS
Film
The Tower of Silence
The Honey Trap
Helene
53rd Calypso
Theater
El Cid
Hamlet
Cymbeline
Tamberlaine the Great
Troilus and Cressida
Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire
Stunt Performer (Featured Fights, Falls)
Stunt Performer (Featured Fights, Falls)
Stunt Performer (Featured Fight, Falls, Rolls)
Stunt Performer (Featured Fight)
Rodrigo - Broadsword
Laertes - Rapier and Dagger, Unarmed
Posthumus Leonatus - Single Sword (Épée)
Cosroe - Broadsword
Paris - Unarmed
Various Fight Roles - Broadsword,
Rapier and Dagger, Quarterstaff, Axe and Shield, Unarmed, Stunts (20 ft Highfallls)
Erik Flynn Patton, Dir., Joseph Travers, Stunt Coord.
Domingo Martin, Dir., Nick Gisonde, Stunt Coord.
James MacMillan, Dir., Trent Dawson, Stunt Coord.
Josh Apter, Dir., Trent Dawson, Stunt Coord.
Pendragon Ensemble
Castle Shakespeare Repertory
Riverside Park Shakespeare Company
ATA
Stageworks of Brooklyn
Mount Hope Estate
Training
Society of American Fight Directors
Joseph Travers, Swordplay NY
Broadsword and Shield , Quarterstaff, Small Sword, Spear, Polearms, Gladius
Richard Raether, David Boushey, JR Beardsley, Drew Fracher, SAFD National Stage Combat Workshop
Rapier and Dagger, Broadsword, Unarmed and Falls, Quarterstaff
Michael Chin, Fights 4/New York Fight Ensemble
Small Sword
Dale Girard
Rapier and Dagger
Skills
Stunt and Stage Fighting, Multiple Weapon Styles, Falls, High falls (up to 20ft), Rolls, Horseback Riding, Sports – Football, Baseball, Wrestling
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