Philadelphia Stage Combat Workshop

10/15/2025

Returning to the PSCW is FD/CT Sean Michael Chin!

Sean Michael Chin (he/him) is an international fight director and combat performer based in NYC. Notable work includes The Good John Proctor (Bedlam), black odyssey (Classic Stage Company), Jane Anger (Shakespeare Theater Company), and Medea (Greek National Opera & Lyric Opera of Chicago). Earlier this year he made his Broadway debut serving as Assistant Fight Choreographer for Othello at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. He is a Certified Teacher and Fight Director with the Society of American Fight Directors, and an Associate Choreographer with SDC.

Sean teaches stage combat at Pace University and Muhlenberg College, and has also taught for organizations such as the National Stage Combat Workshop, Neutral Chaos, Arte Violenta, Theatrica Gladitoria, and Stage Combat Deutschland.

https://www.philascw.com/register

10/12/2025

Nigel Semaj is coming to the PSCW! They're pretty rad, you might want to get in here.

philascw.com/register

Nigel Semaj (they/them) is a DC native and Baltimore-based director, movement director, writer, and educator. They are an Assistant Professor of Performance at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where they teach primarily movement styles and physical theatre techniques. Nigel’s work speaks to those who have been attuned to sound the banshees’ wail. For those whose lives have been touched by deep grief. Their adaptation work include 10,000 Moor (an adaptaion of Titus Andronicus), For Hylas (an adaptation of the Hercules’ myth), and Call Me By Any Other Name…Just As Sweet (a q***r deconstruction of Romeo and Juliet). Their choreography blends language and gesture, with credits across theatre, opera, and film, including Beethoven’s Fidelio, Bryony Lavery’s Slime, and new plays such as AJ Clauss’ SALTY and more recently VOYAGES Chapter 7 at The National Aquarium in Baltimore MD. Upcoming projects include the serpent under’t, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. They are the inaugural Artist-in-Residence at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where they are developing a new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People.

10/01/2025

Happy Spooktober, everybody. Registration for this year's PSCW is live, so if you want to be in Philly the week before Thanksgiving, we'll be extremely excited to see you!

There's still plenty more info to come but we'll start off with an important one: our Friday Historical Combat Workshop will feature the return of out good friends at Live Blade PTK!

In an effort to help make training more readily available, we would like to provide an opportunity for our community to help one another. We know many folks in our industry have been struck hard by financial hardship in the wave of COVID-19, and we all come from various economic backgrounds, none of...

10/01/2025

Hey, do you wanna come to the Philly Stage Combat Workshop this year?

The good folks at Live Blade PTK are coming to the Philly Stage Combat Workshop this year.

https://www.philascw.com/register

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCytgDMX_Qs

G**o Jenna demonstrates transferability from blade to empty hand. How you train is how you survive. That's her natural speed, no tricks. www.livebladeptk.com

09/03/2025

There's a little under two weeks left if you'd like to apply to be on staff for the PSCW this year!

Follow this link, and face some dreaded paperwork:

https://www.philascw.com/workshop-staff

08/15/2025

Once again, we're on the search for folks who would like to be onstaff for the Philadelphia Stage Combat Workshop.

The PSCW runs the week before American Thanksgiving, Nov 21-23.

Come carve the turkey!

https://www.philascw.com/workshop-staff

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