Coordinators
Please note: Workshop Coordinators will not be available to answer questions, even via email, during the weeks of Thanksgiving and Christmas.
John Tovar
Head Coordinator
Greg Poljacik
Coordinator
DC Wright
Coordinator
Catie Early
Coordinator
Christopher Elst
Webmaster
Rachel Stubbs
Head Intern
Instructors
David Boushey
Instructor
Rachel Bown-Williams
Instructor
H Russ Brown
Instructor
Jay Burckhardt
Instructor
Michael Chin
Instructor
Ruth Cooper-Brown
Instructor
Chuck Coyl
Instructor
Philip d'Orleans
Instructor
Matthew Ellis
Instructor
Dale Girard
Instructor
Michael Johnson
Instructor
Rob Leonard
Instructor
Gregg Lloyd
Instructor
Neil Massey
Instructor
John McFarland
Instructor
Douglas Mumaw
Instructor
Robert Najarian
Instructor
Richard Raether
Instructor
Cara Rawlings
Instructor
Richard Ryan
Instructor
J Allen Suddeth
Instructor
Tony Wolf
Instructor
David Woolley
Instructor
DC Wright
Instructor
Winter Wonder Who?
The Winter Wonderland Workshop is the largest regional stage combat workshop in the United States.
Sanctioned by the Society of American Fight Directors and the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat, the Winter Wonderland Workshop brings students from all over the world to learn from some of the best in the business.
Workshop registration for 2013 is now open.
Class registration is now open!
OPEN Classes
- Up Close and Personal Knife Fighting
- Get What You Want! - Choreographing Contemporary Violence
- Cut Throat Razor
- Filippo Vadi's Longsword
- Footwork ala Woolley
- Shaolin Kicks
- Going Down Kicking & Screaming (a.k.a. Tae Kwon Dale)
- Fast and Furious
- Skirmish Magic!
- Lookin' Bad@$$ With A Single Sword!
- Gaming the Fight
- Group Fighting - The More the Merrier
- Raw Fighting
- The One
- High Falls From Low Places
- Vocal Extremes
- Weights and measures
- Unarmed vs. Knife
- Opening Up the Fight: Contemporary Unarmed
- The Tipping Point
- Floor Fracas!
- Knockabout
- Knapp Clinic
- Black and blue
- Victorian Walking Cane Pt 1
- Victorian Walking Cane Pt 2
- Schoolyard Fighting for Horrid Little Boys and Girls
- The Wolf System of Stage Combat Training
- Bartitsu: The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes
- I Fell Over
- Fighting Towards Fitness: Plyometric Cardio Single Sword
- Cut Throat Razor
- Weights and Measures
- Schoolyard Fighting for Horrid Little Boys and Girls
- Bartitsu: The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes
- The Wolf System of Stage Combat Training
- Victorian Walking Stick part 1
- Victorian Walking Stick part 2
BASIC Classes
- Fancy Fighting Fists
- Quarterstaff
- Choke 'Em Out
- Walk Softly and Carry A Big Enough Stick
- Principled Unarmed
- Tactile Unarmed
- Tomahawk & Knife
- Robin Hood and Little John Fightin' in the Forest
- Romeo slew Tybalt, He slew Mercutio: Shakespearean Deaths
- It Takes Two, Baby!
- Basic Falls and Rolls
- Knife Wounds
- Be an Aikido Master! (Or at least play one on stage)
- Contact Hits made easy and safe
- The Pointy End Goes in the Bad Guy
- Taekwondo Forms
- I Fell Over
- Intro to Sword and (mostly) Shield
- Fight Like a Scoundrel: Character through Choreography
- Rapier and Dagger...at the SAME TIME!
- Strangulation and Intimate Violence
- Rapier & Dagger with Ryan
- Bad@$$ Broadsword for Beginners
- 5 Unarmed Basics Everyone Needs to Know
- Contact Hits Made Easy and Safe
- Rapier & Dagger with Ryan
- Ow! That’'s Sharp! Acting the Danger of the Knife
- Your Basic BS!
- Smallsword on the Run
- 5 Unarmed Basics Everyone Needs to Know
INTERMEDIATE Classes
- Cut vs Thrust
- Three Against One? Y'all Need More People
- Swashbuckling 101
- Exploring Double Fence
- Disarms of Angelo
- Simply Melee
- Instant Choreography
- Shaolin Staff
- Rough and Cuffed Combat
- What if My Character Doesn't Know How to fight?
- Avoiding with Style
- Bubba Brawlin'
- Sword & Shield vs Quarterstaff
- MacBane vs Angelo
- Crap, Forgot My Knife
- Making Contact
- Broadsword vs Sword and Shield
- Blind Smallsword
- 3 Musketeers 4 on 5
- Have a Good Trip to Valhalla
- "Hollywood Styles" Single Sword
- Close the Gap
- Be Present,There is Time
- Think Before You...
- Di Grassi's True Arte of Defense
- Wrestling at the Sword
- Paddy Crean single sword
- Unarmed Group Fight/Contact Improv Style
- Dirty Smallsword
- Filippo Vadi's Longsword
- Disarms of Angelo
- Paddy Crean single sword
ADVANCED Classes
- Staff of Archimedes
- What If Romeo Hadn't Interfered?
- Dirty Smallsword
- How To Make Your Fight Director Look Good
- Flynn Shui
- Stupid Sword Tricks 15
- Fast, Furious and Hard
- Broadsword Swashbuckling!
- Broadsword Duel
- Close Quarters Broadsword
- The Mark of Zorro: Translate the Feeling into Action
- Do it Now! Advanced Rapier & Dagger
- Unarmed Film Fighting
- How to Teach Falling and Rolling
- "Fights of Fantasy": alien martial arts and futuristic fighting styles
- Death to Cliche!
- Advanced Smallsword
- Staff of Archimedes
- Broadsword Duel
- Unarmed Film Fighting
LECTURES, PANELS and DISCUSSIONS
- The Duel vs The Ambush
- So You Want To Teach At The Next Winter Wonderland Workshop Do You?
- Director to Fight Director: Keys to Communication
- Sword Maintanence
- Actors are Athletes
- All About the Business