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
Noble Blades Stage Combat Troupe
where I work as both a stage combat and theatrical intimacy instructor and
I serve as Devil Isle Shakespeare's
Sadie Koopman and Clint Blakely in
"Romeo & Juliet", STCA 2024
dir. Alec Wild
"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
"All hats off to Fight and Intimacy Director Bess Kaye."
- MD Theatre Guide, 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
