2025 Staff
2025 Production Assistants
DART
Dart (she/they/all) holds a Bachelors in Theatre from ASU, is a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors and is a traditional storyteller trained by Liz Weir, MBE. Previous roles include Jacob Marley - The Christmas Carol: A Queer Fantasia, Feste - Twelfth Night, Henry V - Henry V (Ronin Theatre) EN: 2021 (Ren Gyo Soh), Edgar - King Lear, Benvio - Romeo and Juliet, John Wesley Powell in Men on Boats (ASU). Dart is passionate about safety and accessibility in classrooms, rehearsal spaces and onstage. Previous Fight choreography includes SHE KILLS MONSTERS (MCC), SWEAT, FAIRVIEW, GLORIA, POTUS (Stray Cat Theatre) HAMLET, MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival), RICHARD II (Southwest Shakespeare Company), OTHELLO (SWS/Harlem Shakespeare Festival). ROMEO & JULIET (GCC).
Mason Dowd
Mason Dowd (he/him) is originally from Pittsburgh, PA, and is an Advanced Actor Combatant with the SAFD. Mason has worked on fights for various regional theatres, including Pittsburgh Opera, West Virginia Public Theatre, Pittsburgh Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Bridges Theatre Company, and The New Hazlett Theatre. He received his BFA in Acting from Point Park University and is a current MFA Acting candidate at University of Houston/The Alley Theatre.
Chelsea Russell
Chelsea Russell (she/her) is a performer, teaching artist, arts administrator, and fight director currently based in Kentucky. Favorite performance credits include A CHRISTMAS STORY (Lexington Theatre Company), THE THREE MUSKETEERS (Leeds Center for the Arts), CINDERELLA (The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati), MOANA JR (The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati), and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (University of Kentucky). She holds a BA in Theatre and Arts Administration from the University of Kentucky and is a proud member of the Society of American Fight Directors, holding current certifications in all 8 weapons.
kara turner
Kara Turner (she/her) is a SAFD intermediate actor combatant and a 2024 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellow for theatre. As a teaching artist, she works in public schools, colleges, and nonprofits, including The Life Stories Program at The Theatre Lab. Her fight direction has recently been seen at Nu Sass Productions and Washington College. Movement-based acting credits include: The Welders' the earth that is sufficient, Theatre Prometheus' (Anon)ymous, and Washington National Opera’s Il trovatore (as seen on CBS News story, Singer Latonia Moore: "There's opera for all kinds of people" (Dec. 31, 2022). She was a 2023 cohort member of the Sumer Sling Fight Choreographer’s Track and trains in aerial arts at Cap City Circus.
Katie Warner
Katie Warner (he/him, she/her) is a performer, teaching artist, fight choreographer, and intimacy director based in the DC Metro Area. An Advanced Actor Combatant with the SAFD, she has spent her whole life training in numerous movement disciplines. She was nominated for a 2023 WATCH Award for Stage Combat Choreography.
Training: Duke Ellington School of the Arts, DC; Sarah Lawrence College, NY (BA, 2022); British American Drama Academy, Oxford (MCP ‘16, MIO ‘22).
