Raul "Nox" Alvarado
Coordinator and Producer
AI, AAC, and Head Babboon.
Raul holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from St Leo's University as well as an AS in Microbiology (Virology) Worcester State University and is a retired US Navy combat vet ( FCC (SW / AC / VBSS) 1990 - 2004) who served in 3 wars and various international operations.
Raul has competed in HEMA tournaments in the US, been a Fight chorographer for Sherwood Forest Faire for 5 years, Fight Director for the New Braunfels Renaissance faire for 2 years, runs a competitive LARP league, and he is the Coordinator and Co Producer of Capital Combat. Raul has created fight choreography for the Long Center Sunday Brunch in 2023 and various theater companies in the Austin area in 2024. The works he has had a hand in creating choreography for include; The Three Musketeers (UIL) , Mas que Pantalone’s, as well as his own adapted play of Romeo Verses Juliet.
George Appling
Producer and coordinator
AI, AAC, and Head Babboon.
George is an Advanced Actor Combatant with the SAFD. He is the Co-Deputy Fight Director at the Sherwood Forest Faire and a graduate of the Central Illinois Stage Combat Teacher Trainer.
Tobie Minor
site coordinator and producer
AI, AAC.
Toby has been teaching Stage Combat and employed as the Drama Director at Texas State University since 2012. He is an award-winning actor and fight choreographer all around Austin, including Austin Shakespeare, the ZACH Theater, the Austin Playhouse, and the Creede Repertory Theatre.
Leraldo Anzaldua
Fight Master
Leraldo Anzaldua (he/him) is a Houston, TX based Actor, Motion Capture Performer for Film and Video Games, Anime Voice Over Artist and Fight Director with the SAFD.
He is a voiceover talent of over 100 characters with Sentai Filmworks and Funimation. He has been a motion capture performer and fight director with Sony Pictures in Tokyo, Japan. He has been a Motion Capture Fight Director & Talent for video games in Stockholm & Uppsala, Sweden. He currently teaches at Indiana University.
https://leraldoanzaldua.com
Skye Bronfenbrenner
Certified teacher and fight director
Skye Bronfenbrenner (she/her) is a fight and intimacy director currently serving as Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts with specialities in Movement and Theatrical Intimacy Education at Marymount Manhattan College.
She holds and MFA in Theatre from the University of Houston where she was also taught Movement for the Actor in the BFA program. She has taught movement and stage combat for Houston Grand Opera's Butler Studio and YAVA programs, Rice University, the Hight School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and as a teaching artist for the Alley Theatre. As a fight and intimacy director, her work has been seen at the Houston Grand Opera, Catastrophic Theatre, Rec Room Arts, Marymount Manhattan College, the University of Houston, and Rice University; and as a performer she has toured with the national tours of Beauty and the Beast, Guys and Dolls, and the international tour fo Shrek the Musical.
Skye believes in making bold and visceral work safely and that theatre is above all a collaborative process.
Patrick "Pat" Kelly
Certified teacher, Stunt Coordinator, and fight director
Patrick (he/him) has studied Jun-fan Kickboxing, Wing Chun Gung Fu, Muay Thai, Savate, Escrima, Silat, Hapkido, Judo, Brazilian Jiu-jitsu, Fencing, Archery, and tactical firearms.
Patrick worked on the Stunt/Fight Team for the Vikings and Vikings: Valhalla television series. He served as consultant and action designer for The Wick Lab, a metabolic and injury analysis for the John Wick movie franchise. He has served as Stunt Coordinator for several feature films including So Cold The River, Runner, and The Duel, starring Dylan Sprouse, in addition to docu-dramas, stage productions, music video and mo-cap. Patrick is currently the Director of Martial Arts at Indiana University.
Samantha Kaufmann
certified teacher and fight & Intimacy director
Samantha (she/her) is an intimacy director, fight director, actor, and teaching artist. She is based in Chicago and works internationally. Samantha is a Certified Intimacy Director with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators as well as a certified teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors.
Samantha is a Jeff award nominated fight choreographer, and award winning actor, and a certified Michael Chekhov teacher with the Great lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium. She has been a resident artist with Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Prague Shakespeare Company.
Regionally, Samantha has worked with theatres such as Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Prague Shakespeare Company (Czech Republic), Cleveland Play House, among others. She has her MFA from Florida Atlantic University.
SamanthaJKaufman.com
David Gonzalez
certified teacher
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Pierce Williams
associate instructor and martial artist
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Firen Williams
associate instructor and martial artist
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Carolyn "Faerie" Amber
Assistant coordinator, Volunteer coordinator
A 2020 graduate of UT Austin, Amber's love for stage combat was heavily driven by their addiction to shonen manga, bad D&D movies, and (affectionately) fighting with their seven siblings. They are excited to return to Capitol Combat and the Texas Intensive this year as an assistant coordinator, and look forward to finding new ways to assert dominance over the younger children still living at home.
Jacklyn Westbrook
insistant assistant
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Alyssa Koreneff
Armorer
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Justin
Helper Monkey extrordinaire
Justin holds a BFA from the University of Houston: School of Theatre & Dance. He practices Historical European Martial Arts focusing in rapier and bolognese sidesword. Justin has developed fight choreography for the world premier of Tooth & Toilet Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Co., Macbeth at Clear Creek Community Theatre and for the Houston Shakespeare Festival (2018), Cymbeline at University of Houston (2018), Romeo & Juliet at Moores Opera House(2017) , The Three Musketeers at Alley Theatre (2019), and provided skills workshops and show choreography for many high schools in the greater Houston area.
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