Ashland Center for Theatre Studies
Theatre Teacher Training Faculty
Christopher DuVal
Christopher Duval is an actor and fight director with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) and a fight director and instructor at schools, colleges, and regional theatres. For the OSF 2009 season he is assistant fight director for Macbeth and fight director for Paradise Lost and All's Well That Ends Well. A member of Actors' Equity, he has worked for OSF on over 20 productions as a repertory actor. In addition, Chris has acted for such companies as the Utah Shakespeare Festival (three seasons), South Coast Repertory, Shakespeare Orange County (three seasons), Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, John Anson Ford Theatre, Riverside Civic Light Opera, and most recently in a production of UP at Syracuse Stage in upstate New York. As a stage combat instructor and fight director he has worked at a wide variety of regional theatres, high schools, colleges, and universities throughout the west. Representative employment has included teaching stage combat certification classes in Korea, fight directing Treasure Island at the Sacramento Theatre Company and fight directing as well as performing on an OSF cruise to Panama. He has also choreographed the fights for such productions as King Lear, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Richard III, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Oleanna, Private Lives, She Stoops to Folly, The Birds, Henry V, among many other classic and contemporary productions. He has trained with the Society of American Fight Directors, the Academy of Theatrical Combat, Dueling Arts International, and the International Order of the Sword and Pen (with instructors from Fight Directors Canada, New Zealand Stage Combat Society, Rendevous South Africa!, and the Society of Australian Fight Directors). He is a Recognized Full Instructor of Stage Combat with Dueling Arts International, an Actor/Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors, and a first degree Black Belt in Aikido. Chrishas served as an adjunct instructor for Movement for the Actor at Southern Oregon University and regularly guest teaches master classes, workshops and courses in Stage Combat, Movement for the Actor, and Acting. He holds a BA in Theatre Arts from California State University, Fullerton and an MFA in Acting from the University of California, Irvine.
In 2009 Chris will join Maggie McClellan to teach the a la carte course Stage Combat.
Chris is one of the instructors for the Theatrical Combat Workshop (certification).
