Instructors
Lloyd Caldwell teaches Acting and Voice on the Theatre Faculty of Oklahoma State University. In a career spanning 25 years he has appeared off-Broadway and regionally, and has acted in feature films and television. A stunt person and stage combat instructor, he has performed at the Banff Center for the Arts, the Stratford Festival inn Stratford Ontario, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In addition he has lectured on stage combat for the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Smithsonian Institute Program for Young Audiences, and has taught workshops for various institutions of higher learning including New York University and the University of Toronto. In June 2001 Lloyd completed a three year appointment as the Executive Director of the service organization to fight directors and stunt people worldwide. He has published articles in theatre history and is writing a book on the history of the fight director.
Matthew E. Ellis is an
Assistant Professor of Movement and Acting at
the University of Oklahoma. He holds an MFA in
Theatre Pedagogy with an emphasis in Movement
and Fight Directing from Virginia Commonwealth
University. Matthew has worked as both a
professional actor for the past ten years and a
professional fight director for the past five
years. His fight direction credits include
Man of La Mancha, Breath, Boom!, As You Like It,
MacBeth, Come Back Little Sheba, Quay West,
Beauty and the Beast and Taming of the
Shrew among others. His acting credits
include A Midsummer Night’s Dream as
Puck, Romeo and Juliet as Romeo, The
Boys Next Door, Cyrano de Bergerac, Picnic,
Kabuki MacBeth, The Apollo of Bellac and
more.
Erick Wolfe teaches movement
and stage combat at the Oklahoma City
University. As the founding member of the
School of Stage Combat, Erick Wolfe has been
training professional actors and performers for
over 10 years, and has worked with top rated
performers and directors from all around the
world. His fight credits include Opera, Ballet,
Theatre, Commercials, Television, and Film.
Erick Wolfe is a Teacher with the British Academy of
Dramatic Combat and with the Association of
Performance Combat, and the stage combat
representative for the Association of Theatrical
Movement Educators. Erick is also a member of
Fight Directors Canada and Society of American
Fight Directors. He is resident fight director
with Tulsa Opera, and teaches the stage combat
course at Opera in the Ozarks.
Location
Oklahoma City University
2501 N Blackwelder
Oklahoma City, OK 73106-1493