ANDREA WEBER
Andrea Weber is a director, choreographer, and teacher working professionally in the SF Bay Area.
Fight direction credits include Bat Boy! , Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Angel Face, An Affair of Honor and scenes from West Side Story, F.O.B., Fences, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She is also a director and choreographer and has worked professionally in the Bay Area with The Shotgun Players and Word 4 Word theater companies, among others.
A certified associate instructor with Dueling Arts International since 2006, Ms. Weber teaches beginning levels of quarterstaff, broadsword, rapier and dagger, single rapier, small sword, and unarmed. In addition to stage combat, her movement training includes Chinese martial arts, modern dance, Laban, yoga and ballet.
Ms. Weber’s teaching credits include 7 years as an adjunct professor at Contra Costa College and Diablo Valley College and 2 years at College of Marin. Areas of instruction include acting, period movement, stage combat, and movement for actors.
RESUME
FIGHT DIRECTION & STAGE COMBAT INSTRUCTION
Broadsword - Rapier and Dagger - Single Rapier - Small Sword,
Quarterstaff - Unarmed Combat
FIGHT DIRECTION
An Affair of Honor
Romeo and Juliet
Night at the Fights
The Jewbird
Angel Face
Love is a Dream House in Lorin
Macbeth
Frankenstein
Bat Boy!
small sword, unarmed
unarmed, knife
unarmed, quarterstaff, single rapier, knife
unarmed
unarmed
unarmed
quarterstaff
unarmed
unarmed
xit Theater 2007, 2009
Contra Costa College 2008
Contra Costa College 2007, 2008
A Traveling Jewish Theater 2008
Word 4 Word Theater Co. 2007
Shotgun Players, 2006
Diablo Valley College 2008
Diablo Valley College 2008
Diablo Valley College 2008
STAGE COMBAT TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Diablo Valley College
Contra Costa College
College of Marin
Berkeley Repertory Theater
unarmed, single rapier, quarterstaff
unarmed
single rapier, unarmed, quarterstaff
single rapier – assistant to Dave Maier
18 week semesters 2007, 2008
3 week master classes 2006- 2008
8 week session 2006, 2007
6 week session 2006
CERTIFICATIONS & DEGREES
Stage Combat Associate Instructor
Stage Combat Actor Combatant
MFA - Theater
BA Cum Laude - Theater
Dueling Arts International
Society of American Fight Directors
University of Arizona
Smith College
2006
1999
1990
1985
RELATED TRAINING
Shaolin Kung Fu/ Tai chi – hand to hand, saber, straight sword, spear, double dagger, staff.
Period Movement, Modern, Ballet and Jazz Dance
Iyengar Yoga and Chi Gung
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Choreography for a Play, The Skriker, 2000
Bay Area Critics Circle Award Nomination for Outstanding Choreography for a Play, Iphegenia in Aulis, 2001
Dean Goodman Award for Choreography, Cabaret, 2005 and The Skriker, 2000
