Author Profile:  J.  Allen Suddeth

J.  Allen Suddeth has worked professionally for the past thirty years out of the New York area.  For Broadway, he has staged fights for Saturday Night Fever, Jekyll & Hyde, Angels in America, Loot, Saint Joan, A Small Family Business, and Hide and Seek.  Off-Broadway he has worked on over fifty productions for Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights' Horizons, The New Group, The Public Theater, BAM, Second Stage, Riverside Shakespeare, Jean Cocteau Repertory, the Pearl Theater, and the New York Theater Workshop.  Regionally, and in LORT Theater he has worked for Center Stage in Baltimore, the Arena Stage and The Shakespeare Theater in Washington, DC, as well as The Denver Center, The Goodman Theater, The Hartford Stage, The Seattle Repertory Theater, The Actor's Theater of Louisville and the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, among many others.  As a master teacher, Allen has trained actors for The Juilliard School, The Lee Strasberg Institute, and The Stella Adler Conservatory, as well as bring a frequent guest artist at major universities.  For television, he has staged stunts, fights and action sequences for over 750 programs for ABC, CBS, NBC, and HBO.  He is the author of Fight Directing for the Theater, published by Heinemann Press.  Allen has taught at the National Stage Combat Workshop for many years, and is workshop coordinator for the National Fight Directors Training Program.