Mr Philip d'Orleans

Name
Philip d’Orléans

Position Held
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies

Profile
Philip is a Master Teacher with the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat (BASSC), a Fight Examiner with the BASSC, with the Irish Dramatic Combat Academy (IDCA) and with Stage Combat Deutschland. He teaches Physical Skills at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), and stage combat at Drama Studio London and the British American Drama Academy (BADA). He has taught at many international workshops in America and Europe, and has lectured at Shakespeare’s Globe, the Wallace Collection and the Tower of London.

As a fight director, he is a member of Equity’s Register of Fight Directors – the highest possible qualification for a fight director in the UK. With more than a hundred professional credits, he has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Opera House, the English National Opera, Shakespeare’s Globe, Teatro Campoamor (Spain), the Vaudeville Theatre, the Aldwych Theatre, Trafalgar Studios, the Royal Court Theatre, the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Vienna’s English Theatre, The Dukes Theatre (Lancaster), Creation Theatre (Colchester), Creation Theatre Co. (Oxford), New Vic Theatre (Stoke-on-Trent), the Print Room, Guildford Shakespeare Co. the Menier Chocolate Factory, Hampstead Theatre, Salisbury Playhouse, York Theatre Royal, the Orange Tree Theatre, Watford Palace Theatre, New Wolsey Theatre (Ipswich), the Apollo Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse (Leeds), the Bolton Octagon, the Watermill Theatre, the Royal & Derngate Theatre (Northampton), Sadlers Wells Theatre, the Drum Theatre (Plymouth), the Tricycle Theatre, the Brighton Dome, Channel Theatre Co. Belinda Knight Productions, Epsilon Productions, Holland Park Opera, Oxford Shakespeare Productions, the Reduced Shakespeare Co. the Queen’s Theatre (Hornchurch) and the Hexagon Theatre (Reading).

He has choreographed fights for two Channel 4 documentaries about acting, one BBC4 documentary on the RSC, two feature films, Warhouse, and The Basement, and many short films.

He has worked professionally in theatre all his life, as a stage manager, lighting designer, production manager, director, and fight director.

Courses Taught
THR 321 Introduction to Stage Fighting

International Workshop Teaching:

Nordic Stage Combat Society Summer Workshop 2010 Tampere, Finland
Opera Violence 2009 Carmona, Spain
Intensive Teacher Training Workshop 2009 Freiburg, Germany
Fighting for Opera 2008 Seville, Spain
Teacher Training Workshop 2008 Freiburg, Germany
Suomen Näyttämötaistelu Yhdistys 2007 Helsinki, Finland
Rapier and Dagger Masterclass 2007 Freiburg, Germany
International Stage Combat Championships – Jury Member 2006 Berlin, Germany
Found Weapons Fighting for the Camera 2006 Freiburg, Germany
Acting the Fight 2006 Berlin, Germany
University of Ulster (Artist in Residence) 2006 Londonderry, N.I.
Winter Wonderland Workshop 2006 Chicago, USA
Introduction to Fight Directing 2005 Berlin, Germany
Medieval Italian Longsword 2005 Freiburg, Germany
Combat on Stage (NWAcademy of the Arts) 2004 Londonderry, N.I.
Two Week Fight Test Workshop 2004 Freiburg, Germany
Introduction to Fight Directing 2004 Regensburg, Germany
Shooting Fights on Location 2004 Basel, Switzerland
Introduction to Fight Directing 2003 Freiburg, Germany
Schloss Bechburg 2003
Neu Bechburg, Switzerland
Foyle Film Festival 2003 Londonderry, N.I.
Bunter Haufen – Fechten 2003 Freiburg, Germany
Winter Wonderland Workshop 2003 Chicago, USA
Fechtmeister 2003 Freiburg, Germany
Gaiety School of Acting, Fights on Film 2002 Dublin, Ireland
Youkali Drama School 2002 Barcelona, Spain
Nayttamotaistel Utyopaja 2001 Helsinki, Finland