Carrie Brewer
Co-Artistic Director

For LCTC: Gloria (Gloria), Bold in 'er Breeches (Anne), A Silent Exchange (The Actress), Tea Before Honour (Mrs. Elphinstone), Mrs. Garrud's Dojo (Gertrude), 'Twas Two to a Grave (Mary) & Trung Sisters (Siren); Fight Director: Bold in 'er Breeches, The Sign in the Scarlet Prison, 'Twas Two to a Grave & This Side of Paradise; Director: The Sea Serpent & the Samurai's Daughter. Carrie is the founder of LCTC and works as an actor, teacher, fight director and stuntwoman. Choreography credits: The Maids (NYU), Hamlet and Ipigenia and Other Daughters (Mount Holyoke College), MacBeth, As You Like It, Phaedre, Becket, Amphitryon, Unidentified Human Remains, Ophelia's Opera, The Death of Arthur (Gorilla Repertory Theatre). She trained Piper Perabo in broadsword for George and the Dragon and co-choreographed The Sirens of T.I. (Treasure Island Casino, Las Vegas). Other acting credits: The Comedy of Errors (Luciana) and Odyssey (Athena/Calypso) with Aquila Theatre Co., Travesties (Cecily) and Habeas Corpus (Constance), The Three Musketeers (Milady), Man of La Mancha (Antonia) and Into the Woods (Rapunzel) with CT Rep., Belle, Cinderella, & Meg (Original cast Disney Cruise Line), and Queen Elizabeth I (Utah Shakespeare Festival). Stunt work includes Guiding Light. Carrie is on the stage combat faculty at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and is a Guest Lecturer at NYU.

Peter Hilton
Co-Artistic Director

For LCTC: Camilla (Poet), Mrs. Garrud's Dojo (William), 'Twas Two to a Grave (Charlie), Trung Sisters (To Dinh); Playwright: Gloria (Genesius Guild Award for Most Outstanding New Production 2001), A Silent Exchange, A Double-edged Sword, Camilla, Mrs. Garrud's Dojo, Tea Before Honour, 'Twas Two to a Grave, The Sea Serpent and the Samurai's Daughter, Trung Sisters & Contestant 325; Director: Women-at-Arms Festival 2002, 2003 & 2004 (LA), Tea Before Honour, The Lady Cavaliers: Signature Stories. Peter holds an honors degree in Classics from University College, London and has lectured on the production of classical theatre at the British Museum and US colleges including Princeton, Stanford, UCLA, Yale, UT, Penn State, USC and Berkley. Other acting credits include Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, The Odyssey, The Iliad, Comedy of Errors, The Birds, The Wasps, Agamemnon, Les Misérables, Oklahoma!, Medea, On the 20th Century, Oliver!, The Final Revelation of Sherlock Holmes, Plain and Fancy, Grease, Guys and Dolls and One for the Road. Peter is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. WWW.DRAMACONSULTANT.COM

Bevin Kaye
Producer

For LCTC: Gloria (Maladie), Double-edged Sword (Elizabeth), This Side of Paradise (Lis), 'Twas Two to a Grave (Anne); Producer: Gloria, Women-at-Arms 2002, Women-at-Arms 2004 (LA). Bevin has produced several shows in NYC including Bitch Buffet at Don't Tell Mama and The Triad Theatre. Other acting credits include Off-Broadway: Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know. Regional: Hayfever (Jackie), Dracula (Lucy), A Christmas Carol (Belle), Kiss Me Kate (Bianca), and The Three Pigs Opera (Baby Pig). Bevin choreographed the swordplay in The Sirens of T.I. (Treasure Island Casino, Las Vegas). Bevin is based in Los Angeles working as a stunt performer films include: Ang Lee's The Hulk, Disney's Hidalgo, Tim Burton's Big Fish (River Woman), Katie Holmes' stunt double on First Daughter, Judy Greers' stunt double on Wes Craven's Cursed, and TV shows including CSI: Miami, Angel, General Hospital, & The John Henson Project. She trained as a stunt performer with the United Stuntman's Association and is a member of V10 Women's Sunt Professionals.

Maggie Macdonald
Educational Director

For LCTC: This Side of Paradise (Rachel), A Silent Exchange (The Assistant), The Sea Serpent and the Samurai's Daughter (Shogun, Bandit), Trung Sisters (Trung Trac), 'Twas Two to a Grave (Mary); Producer: Fighting the Clock at The Jean Cocteau Theater. Maggie works as an actor, teacher, and fight choreographer in NYC and is an advanced actor combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD), who awarded her the "Examiner's Award for Excellence" three times and the top acting award twice in the last two years at their national workshop. Other acting credits include: Naked at the Gene Frankel Theater, Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Hogan's Goat (Bessie Legg), and The Glass Menagerie (Laura). Maggie graduated from The American Musical and Dramatic Academy and is the Educational Director for the Lady Cavalier Theater Company.

Amanda Barron
Associate Artist

For LCTC: Gloria (Sapphire, Willow & Ariel), Tea Before Honour (Caroline), Mrs. Garrud's Dojo (Beatrice), A Silent Exchange (The Assistant), Speech to New York (Emmeline Pankhurst); Assistant Director: Women-at-Arms Festival 2002.  Amanda has trained in Rapier, Rapier/Dagger, Smallsword, Unarmed, Quarterstaff and Broadsword, and assists teaching stage combat in NYC. Other acting credits include: Off Broadway: Einstein's Dreams (The Culture Project); Twelfth Night,  Much Ado About Nothing, The Rover (Lincoln Center);  The Changeling (The Salon) all with the Holderness Theater Company where she is also a member; Writing To Vermeer (Lincoln Center);  Living London / Hellmouth (NY International Fringe Festival);  Putzi's Progress (Abingdon Theater); Terminal (Vital Theater);  Medeamaterial, Destroy She Said (Schapiro Theater); Carnality (Theater-Studio Inc).  Regional: Taming of the Shrew, 12th Night, Merchant of Venice, Henry IV Part I, Heroides (Shakespeare and Company),  The Unexpected Guest (The Theater Barn).  Film & T.V.: Angels In America, Sex and the City, Bloom, The Lovers, and Still Life which was nominated for Best Short Film New York/Avignon Film Festival.

Angela Bonacasa
Associate Artist

Angela is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD), and is currently on staff at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts and the Actors Gymnasium. She has been a guest artist at several institutions, including the North Carolina School of the Arts, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Texas Tech University. She is a member of Chicago’s Women’s Theatre Alliance and Stockyards Theatre Project as well as New York’s Lady Cavalier Theatre Company. Angela’s recent directing credits include Henry IV, Part I and Ophelia Thinks Harder. As a Fight Director, she has worked in Chicago, New York, and in theatres across the country on productions including Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Henry IV Part I, Richard III, History of the Devil, Fuddy Meers, and Cyrano de Bergerac.

Barbara Brandt
Associate Artist

For LCTC: Mlle. Maupin (Countess), Death Song (Antianeira), The Sign in the Scarlet Prison (Grey); Choreographer: Mlle. Maupin. Barbara has taught stage combat at Western Illinois University, The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, The Lincoln Amphitheatre, Horse Cave Repertory Theatre and currently teaches for Swordplay! in New York City. As a Fight Director, her work has been seen in New York City at The Jean Cocteau Rep, Theatre TenTen, and the Trinity Players Theatre as well as many theatres regionally. Other acting credits include: Duellists: The Forgotten Champions (Mary Read) at Theatre TenTen, The Three Musketeers (Anne of Austria) at Arkansas Rep , MacBeth (Lady MacBeth), Crimes of the Heart (Lenny), A Streetcar Named Desire (Blanche) and The Taming of the Shrew (Katherine). Barbara is also a dance choreographer and her credits include The Cradle Will Rock at the Jean Cocteau, the first revival of Park Avenue at Theatre TenTen and Oklahoma!, The Music Man, and Big River at The Lincoln Amphitheatre. Barbara holds an MFA in Acting from Western Illinois University and is an Advanced Actor/Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors, holding recognition in all eight weapons styles.

Robert J. Hamilton
Associate Artist

For LCTC: Teetotum (The Duke); A Silent Exchange (The Actor), 'Twas Two to a Grave (Daniel Defoe), Mrs. Garrud's Dojo (Peppermint Pete). Fight Director: 'Twas Two to a Grave. While in New York, Robert taught stage combat at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy and worked on various theatrical, film and television projects. He has an MFA from Temple University and is an advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD). Robert recently relocated back to California, where he heads the Stage Combat Department at AMDA, LA in Hollywood.

Denise Alessandria Hurd
Associate Artist
& Company Dramaturg

For LCTC: Gloria (Birch, Donabella), A Double-edged Sword (Maria), Lunch Hour (Denise), Teetotum (Mirrabar), Death Song (Hippolyte). Fight Director: Lunch Hour. Denise works as an actor, a teacher, a director and a choreographer and has appeared at The Public in A Midsummer Nights Dream and in numerous regional theaters around the country playing Desdemona in Othello at the Theatre in Monmouth, Maine, Electra in Orestes and Tituba in The Crucible at Stagewest in Massachusetts, Lady Fanciful in The Provok'd Wife and Baba in Behind the Mask at Theatre 1010, Mrs. Fainall in The Way Of The World, at King's County Shakespeare Festival, Elizabeth Heathcote in Innocent Diversions for the Distilled Spirits Company, and as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (which she also choreographed) at Expanded Arts, all in New York. She was in the resident company of the Orlando Shakespeare Festival where she played Maria in Twelfth Night and Alice and Gower in Henry V. Denise is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD) and Company Dramaturg for LCTC.

Michael Jerome Johnson
Associate Artist

For LCTC: Mlle. Maupin (Jean de L'envers); Fight Director: Mrs. Garrud's Dojo. Michael is a Fight Director and Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD) and a member of Fights4. He has fight direction credits include: The Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage, Double Helix Theatre, NAATCO/ Fluid Motion, Round House Theatre, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, The Shakespeare Project, Theatre at Lime Kiln, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Ford's Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, and The Kennedy Center. Teaching venues include: AMDA-NY, McDaniel College, Georgetown University, American University, Catholic University, National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, University of Maryland's Opera Studio, and his alma mater, North Carolina School of the Arts. Workshop credits include: the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat, the Summer Sling, the Philly Cheese steak Workshop, TTW/SSISC, the March Madness Workshop, the Winter Wonderland Workshop, and the Paddy Crean Workshop. As an actor, Michael has performed at various regional theatres, on tour, on television and in feature films. He was also a stunt double for A Man Called Hawk.

Laura Napoli
Associate Artist

For LCTC: The Sign in the Scarlet Prison (Scarlet) and A Silent Exchange (The Director). Other lead roles include: Bea’s Nest (Karen) at Judith Anderson Theatre, The Miracle Worker (Annie Sullivan) at Barn Theatre, Harriet the Spy (Harriet) at The Growing Stage, the films Aberrations and Death for Sale, and the educational video, Teen/Adult Conflicts: Working It Out, which the Council on International Non-theatrical Events (CINE) honored with a Golden Eagle Award. She fenced and served as co-captain for the Barnard/Columbia Varsity Fencing Team as a member of their first ever women’s sabre squad (best finish - 16th at the 2000 NCAA’s) while earning her BA cum laude from Barnard in English/Dramaturgy. Laura has taught stage combat at NYU Graduate School of Acting, Columbia Graduate School of Acting, The Public Theater’s Shakespeare Lab, Stella Adler Studio, and biz kids n.y. inc. As a comedienne she appears with the improv/sketch group, The Fifth Dentist and with the political satire group, Gross National Product. Other affiliations: The Growing Stage, 12 Miles West Theatre Company, and the Grammy-nominated group, The Incredible Dollface (recently featured on Dollface’s newest album “Stage Brats.”) Laura currently lives in LA.

Judi Lewis Ockler
Associate Artist

For LCTC: Gloria (Carmela), Bold in 'er Breeches (Mary Read), Teetotum (Aleen), Death Song (Molpadia), A Silent Exchange (The Director), Mrs. Garrud's Dojo (Mrs. Edith Garrud), This Side of Paradise (Jen). Judi is a three time certified actress/ combatant with the SAFD, twice with recommendation and attended the inaugural International Stage Combat workshop, where she was the only woman to recommend with the British, American, and Canadian fight societies. Teaching credits include American Musical & Dramatic Academy, Mount Holyoke College and The School for Film and Television (NYC). She has also been fight captain and assistant to Doug Mumaw, David Woolley, and Chris Ockler. Other acting credits include: Corie Bratter in Barefoot in the Park (Amateur Comedy Club, New York), Phebe in As You Like It (Princeton Repertory Company), Peter Pan (New American Theater, Pennsylvania Youth Theater), To Kill a Mockingbird (New American Theater), and The Three Musketeers (Lexington Opera House). She is also co-creator of ANTICS, INC!, an interactive entertainment company.

For LCTC: Fight Director: This Side of Paradise, The Sea Serpent and the Samurai's Daughter, Fighting the Clock. Laurie is co-founder of Fight Builders, a fight directing company dedicated to excellence in stage combat. Laurie and co-founder Edward J. Wheeler direct fights and action sequences for film, television and stage, and teach stage combat at all levels. Laurie also works as a stuntwoman and has stunt coordination and performance credits ranging from outdoor theatre to science fiction films, Children’s theatre to Opera. Most recent credits include: The Dueling Accountant (feature film), Sleepless Nights, As the World Turns, FOX Files and Sightings, Common Saints (TV pilot), Breath, Boom (Yale Rep), Carmen, Rikki-Tikki Tavi. Teaching venues: Yale Rep, NYU Tisch School of the arts, Vital Theater Summer Arts Program, Camp Broadway, Vital Voices, Manhattan School of Music, Brooklyn Poly-Tech, Northern Westchester Center for the Arts, Wing Span Arts and ASC. Laurie is the resident fight director for Mercury Opera and MCT and an Awarded Advanced Actor Combatant with the SAFD.

Ricki G. Ravitts
Associate Artist

For LCTC: Mlle. Maupin (Maupin), Mrs. Garrud's Dojo (Mrs. Edith Garrud) & Contestant 325 (Helene Mayer); Fight Director: A Silent Exchange, Mlle. Maupin; Playwright: Mlle. Maupin. Ricki works as an actress, playwright, Fight director and teacher. Fight direction includes: The Lucky Chance, Femme Fatale, Woyzeck, Romeo and Juliet, The Garden of Torment, Macbeth, Shake Battle and Roll, Hamlet & Duellists: The Forgotten Champions (Mlle. Maupin). Other acting credits include: Three Musketeers (Milady), Taming of the Shrew (Kate), Little Foxes (Regina), Candide (The Old Lady), Belle of Amherst, Agnes (Dancing at Lughnasa), Romeo & Juliet (Mercutio), Private Lives (Amanda), Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Maggie), And a Nightingale Sang (Helen), and Behind The Mask (Lydia). Teaching venues: Fights4, Swordplay, Summer Sling NYC, Int'l Stage Combat Workshop-London & Tucson, Private classes. Guest instructor: Oberlin, Yale, NYU, Vassar, AMDA. Ricki is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a certified Fight Director with the Society of American Fight Directors.

Nandita Shenoy
Associate Artist

For LCTC: Trung Sisters (Trung Nhi), A Silent Exchange (The Director); Director: Dark Night of the Soul. Nandita is an actor, director, and choreographer. Other New York credits include Sex in Other People’s Houses (Lark Theatre), Sheba (Jewish Rep), President Harding Is A Rock Star (HERE Arts Center), Match (Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab), and Desipina’s 7-11 Convenience Theater. Dance credits include “Topsy” on the 1st National Tour of The King & I and “Eliza” in subsequent regional productions as well as West Side Story (Tennessee Rep) and Grease (Kansas City Starlight). Currently, she is an associated artist with CSW Associates. Recent directing credits include the fall tour of Junie B. Jones for Theatreworks/USA. BA in English Literature, Yale University.

Mark Silence
Associate Artist

For LCTC: Mlle. Maupin (Antoine Marsal), 'Twas Two to a Grave (Daniel Defoe), A Silent Exchange (The Actor), Trung Sisters (Guard), Mrs. Garrud's Dojo (Creighton); Fight Director: Death Song. He has choreographed and performed fights throughout the US and, as an actor, has recently been seen in The Three Musketeers in Salt Lake City, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde in San Francisco and The Compleat Wrks of Wlm. Shkspr, abridged in Maine. Mark is the head of the Stage Combat Department at the American Musical & Dramatic Academy (NYC).

Christi Waldon
Associate Artist

For LCTC: Vote! (Theological Parrot). Christi works as an actor, teacher, and fight choreographer in NYC and is an Advanced Actor/Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD) who awarded her the "Examiner's Award for Excellence" three times. Other acting credits include:  Off Broadway: Merchant of Venice and The Winter's Tale (Producer's Club II) with Wooden O' Productions, The Just (WOW Theatre) with Twenty Percent Theatre Company, Walk in Darkness (Theatre Studios Inc.), Drowning in Denmark (Center Stage) with Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company. Regional: Anton in Show Business (Midtown Arts Center), Blueness/Grayness which was part of the Edward Albee New Playwright Workshop (Stages Repertory Theatre), and Titus Andronicus (Templo Arts Center) with Dos Chicas Productions.  Film and T.V.:  The Narrow Gate, Law and Order, Candyflipping, and a PSA entitled Black History Month for VH1. Choreography credits: Magenta of Open All Night hosted by John Patrick Shanley, Romeo and Juliet, Speed the Plow, and The Homelife of Ninjas at Galapagos Art Space. Christi graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Houston.