Fight Direction/ Stunt Coordination:
                     Art of Combat, inc. Resume Page for...
 
John Lennox
Fight Director
Email: jxnbard@gmail.com

Website: www.johnlennox.info

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www.lennoxacademy.net

Phone: 517-414-9814
 

 
FIGHT DIRECTION/ STUNT COORDINATION:

FILM/ TELEVISION:

Auteur Theory 2010 Prod. Company name withheld (NDA)
Squire Bill 2010 Independent Film
A Criminal Case of Christmas 2010 Independent Film

Dog

2007

Dead Mouse Productions

King Lear

2005

Independent Film

Richard III

2004

Independent Film

The Model Father

2003

Rebel Pictures

Henry V

2002

Independent Film

Macbeth

2001

Independent Film

China

2001

Jazzy Tam Films

Solace 9

2000

Solace 9 Films

STAGE:

Combat Therapy 2010 Access Theatre, NYC
Message From Kansas 2009 Spring Arbor University

Let's Fight About It

2009

Access Theatre, NYC

The Many Deaths of Shakespeare

2009

Centenary College

Tape

2009

Centenary College

You May Go Now

2009

Centenary Stage Company (Equity)

It's A Wonderful Life

2008

Wayne State University

Rosencrantz and Guildernstern Are Dead

2008

Wayne State University

Hamlet

2008

Wayne State University

Jane Eyre

2008

Lansing Community College

As You Like It

2007

Wayne State University

Macbeth

2007

Lansing Community College

The Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged

2007

Wayne State University

Dracula

2007

Spring Arbor University

Tom Jones

2007

Wayne State University

'Tis Pity She's A Whore

2007

California State University- Bakersfield

The Miracle Worker

2007

Rochester College

The Many Deaths of Shakespeare

2006

Lansing Community College

That Championship Season

2005

Wayne State University

No Feare Shakespeare

2005

Wayne State University

Julius Caesar

2005

Wayne State University

Hamlet

2005

Lansing Community College

House of Desires

2005

Lansing Community College

Lifting the Vail

2005

Spring Arbor University

Gideon

2005

Spring Arbor University

Picnic

2005

Lansing Community College

I Hate Hamlet

2005

Lansing Community College

Titus Andronicus

2005

Sunsets With Shakespeare

Macbeth

2005

Sunsets with Shakespeare

Anna Lucasta

2005

Wayne State University

Evita

2005

Wayne State University

Merry Wives of Windsor

2005

Wayne State University

I Hate Hamlet

2005

Wayne State University

The Love of the Nightingale

2004

Lansing Community College

No Fear Shakespeare

2004

Wayne State University

Meeting in Munich

2004

Spring Arbor University

House Of Bernarda Alba

2004

Wayne State University

Message From Kansas

2004

Spring Arbor University

Kentucky Cycle

2004

Wayne State University

You Can’t Take It With You

2004

Lansing Community College

Lovers and Executioners

2004

Wayne State University

Desdemona: A Play About A Handkerchief

2004

Wayne State University

Macbeth

2004

Wayne State University

Dream On Monkey Mountain

2004

Wayne State University

All’s Well That Ends Well

2003

Lansing Community College

Dracula

2003

Spring Arbor University

Much Ado About Nothing

2003

Wayne State University

Marisol

2003

Wayne State University

Rashomon

2003

Lansing Community. College

The Pony Express

2003

Missouri Western State College

Medea

2003

Wayne State University

Good Night Desdemona/Good Morning Juliet

2002

Midland Theatre Guild

Death and the Maiden

2002

Wayne State University

No Place To Be Somebody

2002

Wayne State University

The Grapes of Wrath

2002

Lansing Community College

The Three Musketeers

2002

Lansing Community College

The Tempest

2001

Lansing Community College

Romeo and Juliet

2001

Sunsets With Shakespeare

The Runner Stumbles

2001

Center Stage

Two Buffalo Fight

2001

Jackson Civic Theatre

Romeo and Juliet

2000

Lansing Community College

SubUrbia

2000

Lansing Community College

Taming of the Shrew

2000

Lansing Community College

Taming of the Shrew

2000

Outing Productions

Revenge of the Space Pandas

1999

Lansing Community College

Much Ado About Nothing

1999

Lansing Community College

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

1999

Jackson Civic Theatre

Stage Combat Exposition

1999

Michigan Shakespeare Festival

Comedy of Errors

1999

Lansing Community College

The Odyssey

1999

Lansing Community College

A Mid-Summer Night's Dream

1998

Lansing Community College

Miracle Worker

1998

Jackson Civic Theatre

Prisoners

1998

Lansing Community College

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

1998

Clark Lake Players

Measure for Measure

1998

Lansing Community College

Stage Combat Exposition

1998

Michigan Shakespeare Festival

As You Like It

1998

Michigan Shakespeare Festival

Amalia

1998

Western Community. Arts Center

I Hate Hamlet

1997

Jackson Civic Theatre

I Hate Hamlet

1997

Lansing Community College

Macbeth

1997

Lansing Community College

Amalia

1997

Western Community Arts Center

The Comedy of Errors

1996

Lansing Community College

Threepenny Opera

1996

Michigan Theatre

Twelfth Night

1995

Michigan Theatre

Fear and Misery/ Third Reich

1995

Michigan Theatre

A Mid-Summer Night's Dream

1995

Jackson Shakespeare Festival

Oliver!

1995

Michigan Theatre

The Fall of the Amazons

1995

Michigan Theatre

Babes in Toyland

1993

Michigan State University

Romeo and Juliet

1992

Michigan State University (Class)

Company

1992

Grand Rapids Civic Theatre

Shenandoah

1992

Clark Lake Players

A Heart For A Heart

1990

Western Michigan University

Cabin 12

1989

Western Michigan University

Lone Star

1988

Western Michigan University

Dylan

1987

Western Michigan University

Mike's Day Out

1987

Jackson Community. College

Little Mary Sunshine

1986

Clark Lake Players

Summer and Smoke

1986

Jackson Community. College

 
TEACHING:
The Shenandoah Project - Stoughton, Wi
Workshops: Unarmed Theory, Close Quarter Knife, Bowie Knife, Tomahawk- 2010
AoC Intensive Workshop - NY, NY
Classes: Unarmed, Knife, Fight Direction Theory & Practice- 2010

Ferris State University- Big Rapids, Mi.
Classes: Hand to Hand, Rapier, Tomahawk & Knife- 2009

School of European Swordsmanship- Helsinki, Finland
Classes: Bowie Knife, Boarding Actions- 2009

AoC Intensive Workshop - London, England
Classes: Unarmed, Knife, Theory & Practice, Sword & Shield, Spear- 2009

AoC Intensive Workshop - NY, NY
Classes: Unarmed, Knife, Fight Direction Theory & Practice- 2009

The Shenandoah Project - Shenandoah, Va
Workshops: Unarmed Theory, Fight Direction - 2009

California University of Pennsylvania - California, Pa.
Workshops: History of Personal Combat- 2009
Demos: Longsword, Rapier, Sword & Buckler, Knife, Smallsword, Backsword

S.W.A.S.H.- Royal Armouries, Leeds, England
Workshop: Bowie Knife, Boarding Actions - 2009

Paddy Crean International Art of the Sword Workshop - Banff, Canada
Workshop: Principles of Unarmed Combat Theory, Boarding Actions, Tomahawk and Longknife - 2008-2009

California University of Pennsylvania - California, Pa.
Workshops: Boarding Actions for Stage
Demos: Boarding Actions- 2008

The Shenandoah Project - Shenandoah, Va
Workshops: Stealing Time, unarmed vs. Knife - 2008

R.C. Annie- London, England
Boarding Actions, Bowie Knife, Cabala and the Cube- 2008

Alte Kampfkunst- Wuppertal, Germany
Boarding Actions, Bowie Knife, Cabala and the Cube- 2008

Macdonald Academy- Edinburgh, Scotland
Boarding Actions, Bowie Knife, Cabala and the Cube- 2008

California University of Pennsylvania - California, Pa.
Workshops: French Foil
Demos: History of Dueling- 2008

California University of Pennsylvania - California, Pa.
Workshops: Boarding Actions
Demos: I.33 Sword and Buckler, Italian Longsword, German Longsword, Giocco Stretto- 2007

The Shenandoah Project - Shenandoah, Va
Workshops: Biomechanics, Boarding Actions - 2007

The Mariner's Museum - Newport News, Va.
Demos: Boarding Actions - 2007

California State University-Bakersfield - Bakersfield, Ca.
Workshop: Hand to Hand, Knife, Rapier, Military Sabre - 2007

Rochester College - Rochester, Mi.
Workshop: Hand to Hand - 2007

Paddy Crean International Art of the Sword Workshop - Banff, Canada
Workshop: Biomechanics, Boarding Actions - 2007

Michigan Youth Theater - Holly, MI

Workshop: Knife Combat, Rapier - 2005, 2007.

Workshop: Hand to Hand: Street Fighting / Aikido / Karate - 2005, 2007.

International Swordfighting and Martial Arts Convention - Detroit, MI
Workshops: Cabala and the Cube, Boarding Actions- 2009

Workshops: German Smallsword, Cabala and the Cube, Unarmed vs. Knife, Boarding Actions-     2008

Workshops: Biomechanics, Boarding Actions - 2007

Workshops: Naval Smallsword, Boarding Actions - 2006

Workshops: Military Sabre, Boarding Actions - 2005.

Workshops: Military Sabre, Doyle Smallsword (w/ Maestro Jeannette Acosta-Martínez) - 2004.

Workshops: Military Sabre, Katana - 2003.

Workshops: Italian Rapier for Stage & Screen (w/ Maestro Ramón Martínez),

Hutton's Sabre, Katana - 2002.

Workshops: Military Sabre, Katana - 2001

Workshops: Military Sabre, Katana - 2000

Wayne State University - Detroit, MI

Workshop: Hand to Hand: Street Fighting / Aikido - 2005.

Lansing Community College - Lansing, MI

Workshop: Hand to Hand: Street Fighting / Aikido - 2004.

Various Universities & Colleges in Michigan

Workshops: The RE:Action System and Choreography for Film, Teaching Assistant to Tony Wolf - 2003, 2004.

Adrian College, Lansing Community College, Michigan State University, Rochester College, Spring Arbor University, Wayne State University, Western Michigan University

Western High School - Jackson, MI

Workshops: Longsword, Rapier, Smallsword, Duelling Sabre - 2003.

Gallowglass Academy - Leaf River, IL

Workshop: Italian Longsword for Stage & Screen - 2003.

Alma College - Alma, MI

Workshop: Italian Rapier for Stage & Screen, Theatre Dept. - 2003.

Lecture & Demonstration: Italian Longsword, History Dept. - 2003.

Lecture & Demonstration: Italian Rapier, History Dept. - 2002.

Midland Theater Guild - Midland, MI

Workshops: Rapier, Longsword - 2002.

Michigan State University - East Lansing, MI

Independent Study Instruction: Romeo & Juliet - 1992.

 
CERTIFICATIONS:
 
Art of Combat, inc.
Fight Director & Head of Home Chapter (Lansing, MI)
Historical Maritime Combat Association
Instructor
Historical Martial Study Society
Instructor
School of Two Swords
Expert Level Knife Instructor
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
Oakland Press "Opie" Award Nominee- Best Stage Combat
2005
I Hate Hamlet- Wayne State University
Oakland Press "Opie" Award Winner- Best Stage Combat
2004
Macbeth- Wayne State University

COMBAT EDUCATION:
 
Subject(s)
Year
Instructor(s)
Italian Rapier
Duelling Sabre
2002, 2003, 2004
Maestro Ramón Martínez
RE:Action System
Combat Choreography for Film
2003, 2004
Tony Wolf
Italian Longsword
17th & 18th Century Broad/Backsword
2002
Maestro Paul Macdonald
Firearms Training
(.38 Revolver, 9mm Semi-automatic Pistol, Riot Gun, M-14, M-16, Black Powder Navy Colt Pistol)
2000
William Lennox & Howard Strauss
Meyer Rapier Technique
2000
Stefan Dieke
Advanced Rapier for Stage & Film
1999
Anthony DeLongis & Bob Chapin
Smallsword
1999
Roberta Brown
Rapier & Dagger
1999
Payson Burt
Choreographing Multiple Opponents
1999
T.J. Rotolo
Filipino Martial Arts
1999
Lavonne Martin

PRIMARY WEAPONS STYLES:
 
German Two-Handed Sword
English / Scottish Broadsword
Italian Longsword
(Hand and a Half Sword)
Epée
Foil
Rapier
Italian Rapier
Italian Rapier
& Dagger

Italian Rapier & Cloak

Boarding Axe/Tomahawk

Military Infantry Sabre
Duelling Sabre
Scimitar
Katana
Wakizashi
Bowie Knife
Dagger
War Hammer
Pole Axe
Hand Axe
Smallsword
Quarterstaff
Cutlass
Close Quarter Knife
 
Firearms Training:
 
9mm Semi-automatic Pistol
.38 Revolver
Black Powder Navy Colt Pistol
M-14
M-16
Riot Gun
 
Martial Arts Training:
 
Aikido

Western Grappling/ Unarmed

Karate
 
MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS:
Independent Fight Directors Guild
 

International Order of the Sword and Pen
Association for Historical Fencing
 

Historical Maritime Combat Association


DIRECTING EXPERIENCE:

The Many Deaths of Shakespeare

2009

Centenary College

It's A Wonderful Life

2008

Wayne State University

The Many Deaths of Shakespeare

2006

Lansing Community College

I Hate Hamlet
2005
Lansing Community College
The Birds
2005
Lansing Community College
The Rosier Players
2004
Michigan Theatre
Rashomon
2003
Lansing Community College
The Three Musketeers
2002
Lansing Community College
The Tempest
2001
Lansing Community College
Othello
2000
Lansing Community College
I Hate Hamlet
1997
Lansing Community College
Threepenny Opera
1996
Michigan Theatre
The Comedy of Errors
1996
Lansing Community College
The Fall of the Amazons
1995
Michigan Theatre
Oliver!
1995
Michigan Theatre
A MidSummer Night's Dream
1995
Jackson Shakespeare Festival
Fear and Misery/ Third Reich
1995
Michigan Theatre
Twelfth Night
1995
Michigan Theatre
Babes in Toyland (A.D.)
1993
Mich. State University
Snoopy!
1987
Clark Lake Players
Mike's Day Out
1987
Jackson Community College

ACTING EXPERIENCE:

FILM/ TELEVISION:

Dog

Dog, Jake

Dead Mouse Productions

The Model Father

Virgil

Rebel Pictures

China

Tournament Fighter

Jazzy Tam Films

Domino's Training Video

Customer

Domino's

Captain Galaxy The Movie

Ensign Droopy

Independent Film

Industrial Video

Thief

Radisson Hotels

Who Really Discovered America?

Columbus

Lansing Local Cable

STAGE:

The Many Deaths of Shakespeare

Professor Goodfellow

Lansing Community College

Taming of the Shrew

Vincentio

Michigan Shakespeare Festival

Much Ado about Nothing

Borachio

Michigan Shakespeare Festival

Camelot

Mordred

Jackson Civic Theatre

The Tempest

Ariel

Michigan Theatre Players

Everyman

Strength

Michigan Theatre Players

A Mid-Summer Night's Dream

Puck

Jackson Shakespeare Festival

The Scams of Scapin

Scapin

Michigan Theatre Players

Twelfth Night

Antonio

Michigan Theatre Players

Of Mice and Men

Curly

Clark Lake Players

The Misanthrope

Oronte

Western Michigan University

Balm In Gilead

David

Western Michigan University

Biloxi Blues

Sgt. Toomey

Western Michigan University

Dylan

Dylan

Western Michigan University

A Hatful of Rain

Johnny

Jackson Community College

See How They Run

Rev. Humphrey

Jackson Community College

Peer Gynt

Peer Gynt

Jackson Community College

True West

Lee

Jackson Community College
 
 
 

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