Action by KO

Supplying bespoke action that focuses on the way in which the action affects the characters, driving the narrative through physical storytelling. Providing coordination for Screen, Stage and Live Events, Action by KO is here to make the extremes in your production extraordinary.

With Violence and Love

Whatever it is you’re looking for, whether it be a mass battle scene, epic fantasy fight, bruising hand to hand combat, all out gun fight, or that one hit or fall that happens in your production, you’ve come to the right place. Ensuring the performers’ safety through effective communication, consent led choreography creation and a developed understanding of the actors’ needs during a fight scene, I revel in the problem solving of how we keep one another safe whilst creating action that matters.

Catering to all tastes

My work as a Fight Director draws on my experience as an actor working on stage, screen, as well as live events for clients including English Heritage and the Historic Royal Palace. My experience as a combat instructor shapes my process in negotiating the evolution of the fight and process of rehearsal with the cast. My work as a Stunt/SPACT performer for film and motion capture, experience in historic martial arts practices and firearms training enable me to suit the action to all sensibilities and production types.

Represented as a Fight Director by Neil McNulty at Keddie Scott Associates

Credits

FIGHT DIRECTOR / Stunt Coordinator

HAMPTON COURT PALACE - Tudor Duelling (Event), Dir . Lachlan McCall

DOWN IN THE VALLEY (Opera), Bedfordshire Youth opera. Dir . Fred Broom

THE MILK SITUATION (Short Film), Gunpowder House Productions. Dir . John Ferrer

CYANIDE (THE FIRST TRIALS) (Short Film), Dir . John Ferrer

SPOKEN IN PLAIN SIGHT (Short Film), Threepenny Collective. Dir . Ariel de la Garza & Ilya Wray

THE REAL & IMAGINED HISTORY OF THE ELEPHANT MAN (Nottingham Playhouse Theatre & Tour), Dir . Stephen Bailey

MYSTERIA (Site Specific Theatre, Lovere, Italy) Astra Realm Theatre co.

THREE MUSKETEERS (Royal & Derngate Theatre) Dir. Dan McGarry

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Wise Owl Theatre Co. Tour) Dir. Chris Brookes

NECTA - Music Video - Artist. Daisy Babii - for Lucky 13 Action

THE RED DIAMOND CUT (Short Film), Dir. Nick Toth

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (Curve Theatre Leicester & Tour), Dir. Anthony Almeida

KING & I (World Tour - UK), Associate Dir. David Siebert

ACIS & GALATEA (English National Opera), Dir. Sarah Tipple

CROSS PLATFORM DEVISED PERFORMANCE (Roundhouse), Dir. John Berkavitch

OKLAHOMA (Curve Theatre, Leicester), Dir.

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Curve Theatre, Leicester), Dir.

ROMEO AND JULIET (New Wimbledon Studio), Dir. Charles Spencer Noll

THE CONJURER AND THE MOON (Enter Edem) Dir. Emma Fay

DRY LAND (Jermyn Street Theatre), Dir. Hannah Hauer-King




ASSOCIATE FIGHT DIRECTOR

ROMEO AND JULIET (Shakespeare's Rose Theatre - Blenheim), Dir. Juliet Forster

HAMLET (Shakespeare's Rose Theatre - York), Dir. Damian Cruden

TWELFTH NIGHT (Shakespeare's Rose Theatre - York), Dir. Joyce Branagh

THE TEMPEST (Shakespeare's Rose Theatre - York), Dir. Phillip Franks

MACBETH (Shakespeare's Rose Theatre), Dir. Damian Cruden

A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM (Shakespeare's Rose Theatre), Dir. Juliet Forster

MACBETH (Bussey Building), Dir. Paul Tomlinson

Fight Reel Footage for BSR Trainees Eloise Gray and Morgan Beveridge. Camera - John Ferrer