CV
Height: 6ft 2in | Eye Color: Brown | Hair Colour: Black
Spotlight profile: www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/1577-4500-0450
www.imdb.com (Kevin McCurdy - stunts)
Music videos: www.youtube.com/TheKevinMcCurdy
Showreels: www.youtube.com/TheKevinmccurdy
23 yrs Equity Registered Fight Director (choreographed for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, feature films, music videos, West End shows, tours)
29 yrs Registered Stage Combat tutor
Fight & Action performer
Actor (Trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama 1988-1991)
Academy of Performance Combat (APC) Co- Founder & Chairman
APC Stage Combat Senior Instructor
APC Examiner
Resident Fight Combat tutor at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (started Easter 2005)
recent credits
Billy Elliot The Musical / Fight Choreographer / Curve Theatre
Sister Act / Fight Choreographer / Jamie Wilson Productions
A Midsummer Night's Dream / Fight & Movement Choreographer / Insane Root
Jitney / Fight Choreographer / Old Vic Theatre
The Barber Of Seville / Fight Choreographer / Nevill Holt Opera
The House Of Shades / Fight Choreographer / Almeida Theatre
Hamlet (US production) / Fight Choreographer / Almeida Theatre
Gunpowder / Fight Choreographer / Layered Reality
In Rehearsals: Guardians Of The Galaxy: Secret Cinema; Les Misèrables; Operation Julie
Training
Acting: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Fight training: Equity Register of Fight Directors / International TaeKwonDo Federation / British Academy of Fencing / British Academy of Dramatic Combat / International Order of the Sword and the Pen
Special Skills
Fight Direction
Equity Registered Fight Director of 23 yrs. Have choreographed for stage, television and film in UK, Europe, USA
Stage Combat
Stage combat instructor for 29 yrs
Academy of Performance Combat Stage Combat Senior Instructor
Martial arts:
1st Dan ITF Taekwondo;
1st Dan Kickboxing;
Corda Azul (Blue cord) Capoeira;
Over 20 years of experience and knowledge of various arts including Tai chi chuan (Yang style), aikido, judo, muay thai, boxing, wing chun, MMA
Swordplay:
Sport fencing: proficiency awards to Gold standard sabre & foil. Fighting experience in epeé
Historical sword: (rapier & transitional; smallsword; great / longsword: single, hand and a half); cutlass; falchion
shield and cloak systems; case of rapiers
Knowledge of katana
Knife Fighting:
(sparring, 'kills', disablement, anatomy work)
Practical knowledge of:
staff (bo and jo), eskrima, spear
gun handling (trained in USA under the National Rifleman's Association to Basic Level Instructor level to train individuals in pistols, rifles, shotguns)
Full credits can be seen on linkedin.com/kevmccurdy