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

Greg Larson
Head Intern

Instructors

Michael Anderson
Instructor

Jonn Baca
Instructor

Angela Bonacasa
Instructor

David Boushey
Instructor

Jay Burckhardt
Instructor

Bob Charron
Associate Instructor

Charles Coyl
Instructor

Matthias Fittkau
Instructor

Rick Gilbert
Instructor

David Gregory
Instructor

Marianne Kubik
Instructor

Mathias Kunzler
Instructor

Chris Last
Instructor

Craig Lawrence
Associate Instructor

Janet Lawson
Instructor

Brian LeTraunik
Instructor

Neil Massey
Instructor

Jill Matarelli Carlson
Instructor

John McFarland
Instructor

Adam McLean
Instructor

douglas mumaw
Instructor

Richard Raether
Instructor

Ian Rose
Instructor

Darrell Rushton
Instructor

Richard Ryan
Instructor

Nick Sandys
Instructor

Elizabeth Styles
Instructor

J. Allen Suddeth
Instructor

Jeff Thomason
Instructor

John Tovar
Instructor

Christina Traister
Instructor

Joseph Travers
Instructor

David Woolley
Instructor

DC Wright
Instructor

David Yondorf
Instructor

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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.

Staff applications for 2013 are not yet open.

Workshop registration for 2013 is not yet open.

OPEN Classes

  • Back falls for all
  • Breath or Die
  • Lightsaber 101
  • Fighting For Film
  • Fancy Footwork
  • It Ain't Heavy, It's My Broadsword
  • Takedowns and Headlocks!
  • Lightsaber to music
  • Martial Arts Based Safe Combat
  • Unarmed Improv
  • Filipino Knife
  • Just For Kicks 2.0
  • Death and Killing
  • Actors Are Athletes
  • Interrupting Kn-hey!
  • Film Fighting 1
  • Medical Implications of The Hit
  • Lightsaber 101
  • Film Fighting Part 2
  • Footwork- The Foundation of Any Good Fight
  • Five Pillars of Ferocious Fighting
  • Falls and Rolls
  • Lightsaber to Music
  • Fighting Bound
  • Slaps and Haymakers
  • Footwork Will Save Your Life!
  • Film Fighting Part 1
  • Create A Fight
  • High Falls from Low Places
  • Film Fighting Part 2
  • Thinking From...
  • Pool Noodle Battles
  • Unarmed Improv

BASIC Classes

  • Quarterstaff for Beginners
  • Biomechanics of Finding Center
  • Sword and Shield
  • Smallsword
  • Groin Shots Are Funny
  • Takedowns
  • Quarterstaff
  • Small sword 101
  • How Slow Can You Go?
  • Brushing the Dust off Paddy Crean
  • Quarterstaff
  • Stick Fighting For Film
  • Broadsword
  • The Pointy End Goes Into The Other Person
  • Prep for Big Weapons For Small People
  • Broadrazor
  • Shakespeare's found logic
  • Knife
  • Quarterstaff
  • Reactor
  • Full Contact Improv
  • Big Weapons For Small People port d'armes
  • Intro to Knife
  • Falling and Rolling
  • Sword And Shield
  • Rapier and Dagger
  • Smallsword
  • Biomechanics of Finding Center
  • Knife Disarms
  • Smallsword
  • Quarterstaff
  • When All Else Fails
  • Twin Daggers
  • Single Sword
  • Filipino Knife
  • Breath or Die Again
  • Nasty Knife
  • Big Weapons for Small People - Reprised

INTERMEDIATE Classes

  • Abandon and Flow
  • Fight Like A Hobbit
  • I Told you to let the *&%# Go!
  • All In The Timing
  • Scimitar
  • Broadsword
  • Did You Say Tai Chi Speed?
  • Viking Sword and Shield
  • Rope vs. Rapier
  • Paddy Crean SiS
  • Fighting With A Smile
  • Abandon and Flow
  • Scimitar
  • Smallsword
  • Broadsword
  • Rope vs. Rapier
  • Paddy Crean Single Sword
  • SS and Cloak
  • Close Quarters Brutality, Chicago Style
  • Aggressive Smallsword
  • Case of Rapiers
  • Lightsaber Story vs. Flair
  • Avoid With Style
  • Shillelaghs
  • Vulgar Art vs. True Art
  • Broadsword
  • Smallsword and Cloak
  • Flash, Fun, and Fierce
  • How Shakespeare Fought

ADVANCED Classes

  • Yoga R&D
  • Fighting For Shakespeare
  • Multi Strikes, Double Timing, Blind Throws
  • Scuola Gladiatori
  • Advanced Throws and Takedowns
  • QS vs. Double Sticks
  • Rapier and Dagger
  • Stupid Sword Tricks 16
  • Smallsword a la Suddeth
  • Knife
  • Multi-strikes, Double Timing and Blind Throws
  • Multi strikes and Double Timing
  • Advanced Sword & Shield: Compound Combination Work
  • Yoga R&D

LECTURES, PANELS and DISCUSSIONS

  • Movement Professional
  • Chicks Unite!!! Women of the SAFD
  • Sword Maintenance