J. Steven White, Fight Director

Banquet keynote speaker, J. Steven White, has directed fight scenes for many actors ranging from Denzel Washington to Madonna. As a teacher for 24 years, he worked for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the American Conservatory, Theatre, and the New York Shakespeare Festival. He has directed fights in more than 100 professional productions for ballet, film, and theatre. His fight direction for Broadway includes After The Fall (Peter Krause; Bombay Dreams, A View from the Bridge (Anthony LaPaglia), Cyrano de Bergerac (Frank Langella), Uncle Vanya (Derek Jacobi) and The Tempest (Patrick Stewart). For New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theatre: Macbeth (Alec Baldwin), Anthony & Cleopatra (Vanessa Redgrave), Cymbeline (Liev Schreiber and Michale Hall) among others. Currently, he also serves on the faculty of the Graduate Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Shakespeare Lab at the Public Theatre.