Community Theater Heroes

Episode Description: In this episode we sit down with award winning Fight Director, John Armour. John is a former advanced actor combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors and founded the Memorial Day Melee regional workshop in Portland in 2001. He has taught and staged violence for theater for the past 30 years. He twice received Drammy awards for Best Fight Design. John has been the primary fight director for Portland Center Stage and Portland Opera for most of the past two decades and has created violence for companies large and small throughout the Northwest. John also teaches as a guest artist in high schools and colleges. John was a founding acting company member of Tygre’s Heart Shakespeare Company and was its resident fight director. John is a member of SAG-AFTRA the union of professional screen, television, radio and emerging media performers.Episode Guests:John Armour (Award Winning Fight Director), Chris Murphy (Creator/Co-Host), Samuel Alexander Hawkins (Guest Host), Sarah Nolte Fuller