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JEFF A.R. JONES is a Movement Coach/Instructor, and is certified by the Society of American Fight Directors as a stage combat Certified Teacher, Fight Director, and Theatrical Firearms Instructor. He also works as an Intimacy Coach. He has staged fights and intimacy for theatre, opera, film, web, and ballet companies including Virginia Stage Company, Asolo Conservatory Theatre, Playhouse on the Square, Virginia Shakespeare Festival, North Carolina Theatre, ManBites Dog Theatre, Duke University, Florida State University, William Peace University, Burning Coal Theatre Company, North Carolina Opera, Virginia Opera, Opera Illinois, Sarasota Opera and Carolina Ballet for shows such as Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Richard III, Titus Andronicus, Henry IV, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Rover, Extremities, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, American Buffalo, Dracula, Noises Off!, Hookman, West Side Story, Peter Pan, Sweeney Todd, The Wild Party, Pippin, Assassins, The Fantastics, Birdy, Cloud 9, Angels in America, Mr. Burns, Otello, Pagliacci, Cold Mountain, Carmen, Messiah, and Don Quixote, to name some favorites. He has worked with such notable actors, directors, and choreographers as Eileen Brennan, Michael Pitt, William Wise, Lynne Taylor-Corbett and Robert Weiss. As a teacher, he has taught stage combat and/or movement at the Elon University, William Peace University, Duke University, FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, Florida State University, UNC-Chapel Hill Professional Actor Training Program, Virginia Governor’s School of the Arts, Springer Theatre Academy, and Legend of Daniel Boone in addition to his ongoing private classes in Raleigh, NC through his company, the Stage Combat Academy of NC. He has taught at the Paddy Crean International Workshop in Edinburgh, Scotland and at regional workshops in Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Williamsburg, Virginia Beach, as well as sessions at the Southeast Theatre Conference and North Carolina Theatre Conference. He has taught History of Combat classes in middle and high schools in Tennessee and Florida. He assisted South Africa’s Marie-Heleen Coetzee in converting competitive African Stick Fighting into a theatrical combat form. He has performed fight scenes on stages in North Carolina, Maine, New York, Virginia, Memphis, Florida, and Las Vegas. He has done motion capture work for several video games including Paragon for Epic Games. His fight direction has received rave reviews in both The Washington Post and The New York Times.