John Paul Scheidler

Fight Director

Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA).

Spring 2025 Season:

Fight Choreographer for The Comedy of Errors (2025).

PREVIOUSLY WITH ASC:

Fight Director: The Merry Wives of Windsor (2024), The Importance of Being Earnest (2024), Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors (2024), Macbeth (2024), Eurydice (2023), As You Like It (2023), Hamlet (2005), The Tempest (2006), Macbeth (2006), and more.

Director: Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!) (2019, 2018, 2017).

Actor: Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2004), Tybalt/Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet (2007), Polixenes in The Winter’s Tale (2007), and more.

OTHER THEATRE:

Heritage Repertory Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, NYC Opera, and company member with Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers for three years.

EDUCATION:

MFA, University of Virginia.

BA in Drama and Dance, Western Michigan University.

Biography:

John Paul Scheidler is a professional actor, fight choreographer, and director with membership in Actor’s Equity Association and teacher certification from the Society of American Fight Directors. He has worked professionally with the American Shakespeare Center, Heritage Repertory Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, NYC Opera, and was a company member with Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers for three years.

His education includes an MFA from the University of Virginia and a BA in Drama and Dance from Western Michigan University. He currently chairs the Mary Baldwin University Theatre Department.