Paddy Crean 2026
Instructors
Emilie Guillaume
Belgium
Emilie Guillaume is a Belgian actress, stunt performer, fight choreographer, and combat teacher.
After graduating in acting from IAD (Institut des Arts de Diffusion), she combines acting with physical storytelling. She has developed her expertise through intense practice in martial arts, fencing, acrobatics, and tricking, including two years at the China Circus School in Beijing. She also attended the Paddy Crean Workshops in Canada several times and recently trained twice with the Jackie Chan Stunt Team.
Emilie works across films (La petite reine, Kika), circus( Nofit State), and theater, choreographing and performing in numerous productions such as Jeanne d’Arc, Zorro, Kung-Fu, the Knights Table... She teaches fight choreography and acrobatics for actors at IAD and keeps up a daily training routine in wushu, wing chun (black belt), fencing, tricking, boxing, silat, and wrestling.
Her work is fueled by a deep passion for movement as a powerful tool for expression and emotion.
Enric Ortuño
Enric Ortuño is Co-Director of Moving Body Arts, working as a Fight Director and IDC-certified Intimacy Director/Coordinator across stage and screen in the UK and EU. His journey began in Spain, where he completed a BA in Musical Theatre and toured as an actor before specialising in stage combat. He is a BASSC Stage Combat Teacher and an SCD Stage Combat Teacher, and holds an MA in Movement Direction & Teaching from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, where he combined his skills in fights, movement, and teaching.
In 2018, Enric became one of the first working intimacy professionals in the UK certified by IDC. His Intimacy Director and Coordinator credits include productions for Netflix, Disney+, Amazon, Apple TV+, BBC, Paramount, and the West End.
He is the Lead Stage Combat and Intimacy Tutor at Drama Studio London and delivers workshops internationally.
Jared Kirby
USA
Jared Kirby has been involved in Combat for Screen & Stage and Western Martial Arts for 25 years. He teaches in New York City (and the metro area) and has choreographed fights Off-Broadway, Nationally, in London and Sydney.
As a Fight Coordinator, Jared has worked with stars such as Peter Sarsgaard, Steve Guttenberg, Cameron Douglas and has trained performers on hit shows.
Jared currently teaches fencing at SUNY Purchase, Sarah Lawrence College, the prestigious Tom Todoroff Conservatory and NY Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. He is a Master of Arms (Maestro d’Armi) through the Martinez Academy of Arms.
Jared is the editor and one of the translators of “Italian Rapier Combat”, the first complete, professional translation of Capo Ferro, the editor for “The School of Fencing” by Domenico Angelo and annotated by Maestro Jeannette Acosta-Martínez as well as “The Gentleman’s Guide to Duelling” released in February 2014 and a reprint of Donald McBane’s “The Expert Swordsman’s Companion” released in January 2017. Most recently, Jared has co-authored “Staging Shakespeare’s Violence” with Seth Duerr and a 2nd edition of “Italian Rapier Combat” in 2021.
Jessica Erin Bennett
USA
Jessica is an Atlanta based Stunt Professional, Intimacy Director & Coordinator with credits such as: stunt doubling Billie Eilish on Swarm, Intimacy Coordinating shows such as The Big Door Prize, Swarm, & upcoming The Idea of You, Intimacy Direction for Nashville Rep's Fences and Nashville Symphony's The Jonah People, & Stunt Coordinating the Never Hike Alone Series & You're Killing Me on Showtime. Jessica is also a founding member & Key Operations with Intimacy Professionals Education Collective (IPECIntimacy.com).
Todd Campbell
Canada
Todd Campbell has been practicing the art of stage combat for over thirty years. A certified Fight Master with Fight Directors Canada, he has created violence for over one hundred theatre and film productions. Todd was a resident fight director at The Stratford Shakespeare Festival for four seasons where he worked on such critically acclaimed productions as Cymbeline, Twelfth Night, Camelot, Dangerous Liaisons and Zastrozzi to name a few. An avid student of historical European martial arts, he has spent his career as a fight director trying to infuse theatrical violence with more historical realism. He has had the great opportunity to train with some of the leading experts in historical martial arts and has used this knowledge to create fights that are not only safe and tell the story of the play but are also martially sound.
He is a founding member of the award winning Riot Act stunt team and teaches at Rapier Wit in Toronto.
Yarit Dor
United Kingdom
Yarit is the Co-Director of Moving Body Arts, working as a Movement Director/Coach, Fight Director, and IDC-certified Intimacy Director & Coordinator across theatre, dance, opera, television, and film. She is an Associate Artist of Shakespeare’s Globe, a BASSC Stage Combat Teacher, and was awarded a Fellowship by Rose Bruford College in recognition of her contribution to the development of intimacy direction and coordination in the UK entertainment industry.
Her creative credits span leading companies, including the Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, and major West End musicals such as Hamilton, Hadestown, A Strange Loop, Fiddler on the Roof, and Why Am I So Single. In dance and opera, she has worked with Rambert, Punchdrunk, English National Opera, and the Royal Opera House.
Yarit also leads Moving Body Arts’s educational activities and teaches at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Shakespeare’s Globe Higher Education, and the National Opera Studio.