Sadie Koopman and Clint Blakely in
"Romeo & Juliet", STCA 2024
dir. Alec Wild
Fights and Intimacy
As a Fight and Intimacy Director, I collaborate with the entire creative team to make safe and compelling stories on stage when the play reaches its physical heights.
I am honored to be an Advanced Actor Combatant with
the Society of American Fight Directors and have served as an Associate Instructor at several
National Workshops.
I am a Senior Member of the
where I work as both a stage combat and theatrical intimacy instructor and
I serve as Devil Isle Shakespeare's
"All hats off to Fight and Intimacy Director Bess Kaye. The simulated intimacy and violence were both appropriate and real, appearing dangerous... but not to the bodily harm of the performers."
- MD Theatre Guide, 2024
"With much of show's plot centered on physical and sexual violence, Bess Kaye's fight and intimacy choreography was truthful yet tasteful, presenting [the lead's] horrific acts with distilled detail."
- Unprofessional Opinion, 2024
"Of course, a fight game needs fighting, and the fight choreography by Bess Kaye... matches up perfectly with the bloody games they mean to invoke."
- MD Theatre Guide, 2024
