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
5 National Workshops and counting.
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 am Devil Isle Shakespeare's
Eric Lane and Alina Collins Maldonado in
"Fire Work", Theater Alliance 2025
dir. Shanara Gabrielle
"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
"Fight director Bess Kaye stages a bloody and brutal finish that, seen up close in this tiny venue, feels shockingly like it’s happening in your lap."
- DC Theatre Arts, 2026
"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
