Colleen Kelly

Fight Choreographer

Spring 2025 Season:

Fight Choreographer for King Lear (2025).

Previously with ASC:

Fight Choreographer: Macbeth (2024), Measure for Measure (2008), The Comedy of Errors (2009), Titus Andronicus (2009), Hamlet (2011), and more.

Dance Choreographer: The Tempest (2006), The Winter’s Tale (2007), Romeo and Juliet (2007), The Rehearsal (2009), Henry IV, Part 1 (2009).

Director: The Taming of the Shrew (2003), Julius Caesar (2007).

Fight Director/Dance Choreographer: Antony and Cleopatra (2007), Much Ado About Nothing (2009), Romeo and Juliet (2010), Henry V (2011).

Other Theatre:

Alabama Shakespeare Festival (Headed the MFA/Professional Actor Training Program), The Old Globe Theatres and La Jolla Playhouse (Teaching and fight choreography), Denver Center Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Clarence Brown Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre.

Film & TV:

Dance choreography for the film Sommersby.

Fight direction for PBS’s television series Tell About the South.

EDUCATION:

M.F.A., Ohio University.
B.S. and M.A., Eastern Michigan University.

Publications and Teaching:

Articles in Theatre Symposium and The Fight Master.

Master teacher for NEA- and NEH-supported projects.

Directed productions at the University of Virginia, including Chicago and The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Past vice president of the Virginia Theatre Association and the Society of American Fight Directors.

Biography:

Colleen Kelly is Head of the Professional Actor Training Program in the Department of Drama at the University of Virginia. Previous work with the ASC includes performing in the 2010 Actors’ Renaissance Season, directing the 2006/2007 touring production of Julius Caesar, co-directing the 2002/2003 touring production of The Taming of the Shrew, and serving as movement coach, dance choreographer, and fight director for several ASC touring and resident productions.