Other Stage Combat Workshops

Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD)

Workshops that hire SAFD instructors as faculty (or are organized by SAFD affiliated folks) .

We’d like to recognize the work of Kate Lass in helping to compile this list.

You can find an updated spreadsheet she keeps here!

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• The Central Illinois Stage Combat Workshop and Teacher Trainer (Macomb, IL), aka “CISCO” (mid May)

• The Mentoring Advanced Combatants Intensive (Bloomington, IN), aka “The MAC” (late May)

• Chaos Combat Intensive (Washington, CT) (mid June)

• The SAFD National Stage Combat Workshop (Ruston, LA), aka “The National” (late July)

Regional Weekends

• Winter Wonderland Workshop (Chicago, IL) (early Jan)

• The Tourist Trap Stage Combat Workshop (Orlando, FL) (late Jan/early Feb)

• The “LA Slay” Stage & Screen Combat Workshop (Los Angeles, CA) (Early Feb)

• The Left Turn Stage Combat Workshop (Albuquerque, NM) (mid Feb)

• Cease and Desist SCW (Cincinnati, OH) (early March)

• Virginia Beach Bash (Virginia Beach, VA) (late March)

• The Stage Combat Workshop at Louisiana Tech University (Ruston, LA), aka “The Boil” (Easter weekend)

• The Dark Corner (Greenville, SC) (late April)

• The Fredricksen Stage Combat Intensive (Ann Arbor, MI) (early May)

• A-Town Throwdown (Atlanta, GA) (Memorial Day weekend)

• Brawl of American (Saint Paul, MN) (Memorial Day weekend)

• Mid-Atlantic Melee (Columbia, MD) (Early June)

• Capital Combat (Austin, TX) (early June)

• Raid on the River (Tri-Cities, WA) (mid June)

• Delaware Down & Dirty Stage Combat Workshop (Wilmington, DE) (early Aug)

• New York Summer Sling (New York City, NY) (mid-late August)

• The Seattle Sockeye (Seattle, WA) (late August)

• Texas Intensive Stage Combat Workshop (Huston, TX) (Labor Day weekend)

• Prairie Rose Regional Stage Combat Workshop (Des Moines, IA) (mid-October)

• Scenic City Slam (Chattanooga, TN) (Mid-October)

• The Philadelphia Stage Combat Workshop (Philadelphia, PA), aka “The Cheesesteak” (mid November)

• The Lone Star Smash (Dallas, TX) (early December)

british academy of stage and Screen Combat (BASSC)

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• The British National Stage Combat Workshop (Lamorbey Park, Sidcup, United Kingdom), aka “The British Nationals” (summer)

Fight Diriectors CANADA (FDC)

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• The National Certification Conference (Location Varies), aka “The (Canadian) National” (summer)

• FDCNext: Multiple locations in non-nationals years (summer)

The international order of the sword and the pen (IOSP)

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• The Paddy Crean International Workshop (Banff, Alberta), aka “The Paddy” (early Jan every other year)

Society of Australian Fight Directors incorporated (SAFDi)

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• SAFDi National Stage Combat Workshop (Location Varies), aka “The Australian Nationals” (early August)

Nordic Stage Fight Society (NSFS)

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• NSFS Summer Workshop (Location Varies) (July)