THE OFFICIAL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN

David Blixt
(Festival Artistic Associate)

Festival Fight Director / Intimacy Designer / Physical Comedy Coordinator
AEA

David is is the resident Fight Director at the Michigan Shakespeare Festival, choreographing fights for most of Shakespeare's canon, including Macbeth, Henry V, Romeo & Juliet, Cymbeline, and Julius Caesar. Other fight direction credits include Steppenwolf (The Brother/Sister Plays), Drury Lane (Murder On The Orient Express, The DaVinci Code), The Marriott (Catch Me If You Can), The Shakespeare Theatre of Washington, DC (King Lear), Hope Summer Rep (Romeo & Juliet), Rivendell Theatre (Dry Land, Grizzly Mama), and The Artistic Home (Macbeth, Witch, Malapert Love). David’s recent intimacy work includes Hedda Gabler and By The Way, Meet Vera Stark at The Artistic Home, where he is an ensemble member.
His most recent cinematic violence was for the horror film Yellow Eyes and the dystopian film Nobody Fucking Leaves. With four Joseph Jefferson Award nominations for Fight Direction, David won the Equity Jeff for Writers Theatre’s production of Athena.
David is the resident Stage Combat Instructor at the Chicago High School For The Arts.
An MSF Artistic Associate since 2000, David has choreographed violence and intimacy for 43 MSF Mainstage productions.