artist profile

Alison De Burgh

THEATRE

Alison has worked extensively in the theatre, regularly creating fights for productions at Derby Playhouse; the Byre Theatre, St. Andrews; the Belgrade, Coventry; the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield; Dundee Rep and the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh. She has regularly worked on productions with drama students at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and was Fight Master at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art from 1996 – 2005.

Other Theatre credits include:

2010 THE CRITIC Jonathan Church Chichester Festival Theatre  
2010 THE DEVIL INSIDE HIM Elen Bowman National Theatre of Wales  
2010 PRIVATE LIVES Richard Eyre Bath Theatre Royal/Vaudeville Theatre  
2009 PETER PAN Jemima Lovic Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh  
2009 PETER PAN David Turner The Curve Theatre, Leicester  
2009 MRS KLEIN Thea Sharrock Almeida Theatre  
2009 SPEAKING IN TONGUES Toby Frew ACT Productions    
2009 BLACK ALBUM Jatinder Varma National Theatre    
2009 THE KING & I Raymond Gubbay Ltd Royal Albert Hall    
2009 DEADLY MURDER David Taylor The Mill at Sonning    
2009 ROMEO & JULIET Bill Buckhurst Shakespeare’s Globe    
2009 MACBETH Carl Heap National Theatre Education    
2008 WOMAN FALLING OVER Emma Bernhard National Theatre Studio    
2008 ROMEO AND JULIET Neil Bartlett Royal Shakespeare Company    
2008 SNAKE IN THE GRASS Alan Ayckbourn Stephen Joseph Theatre    
2008 HARPER REGAN Marianne Elliott National Theatre    
2008 SUGAR DADDIES Robin Herford The Mill at Sonning    
2007 THE DYSFUNCTIONALZ Tamara Harvey Bush Theatre    
2007 OTHELLO Raz Shaw Salisbury Playhouse    
2007 THE SWING OF THINGS Adam Barnard Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough    
2007 HENRY V Jonathan Munby Royal Exchange, Manchester    
2007 THE PENELOPIAD Josette Bushell Mingo Royal Shakespeare Company    
2007 AS YOU LIKE IT Bill Buckhurst Stafford Castle    
2007 A CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL Tim Luscombe The Mill at Sonning    
2007 VICTORIA WOMEN BOXERS (workshop) Helen Eastman NT Studio    
2007 THE DUMB WAITER Harry Burton Sonia Friedman Productions    
2007 ROMEO & JULIET Carl Heap National Theatre Educational Tour    
2006 PETER PAN Roger Redfarn First Family Entertainment    
2006 THERESE RAQUIN Marianne Elliott National Theatre    
2006 BENT Daniel Kramer Trafalgar Studios    
2006 EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED Rachel O’Riordhan Hampstead Theatre    
2006 GOBBO Wils Wilson National Theatre of Scotland    
2006 UNDER THE BLACK FLAG Roxanne Silbert Shakespeare’s Globe    
2006 DONKEYS YEARS Jeremy Sams Comedy Theatre    
2006 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Marianne Elliott Royal Shakespeare Company    
2006 MELODY Lorne Campbell Traverse Theatre    
2005 CORAM BOY Melly Still National Theatre    
2005 SEPARATE TABLES Alvin Rakoff The Mill at Sonning    
2005 AS YOU LIKE IT David Lan Wyndhams Theatre    
2004 THE EARTHLY PARADISE Robert Delamere Almeida Theatre    
2004 CRUEL AND TENDER Luc Bondy Chichester Festival Theatre    
2004 THE GENTLEMAN FROM OLMEDO Jonathan Mumby Watermill Theatre    
2004 THE VENETIAN TWINS Jonathan Mumby Watermill Theatre    
2004 TREASURE ISLAND Kenny Ireland Belgrade, Coventry    
2004 PIAF Tim Sheader Crucible, Sheffield    
2003 PETER PAN Dominic Hill Dundee Rep    
2003 ORIENTATIONS Michael Walling Border Crossings    
2003 TALES FROM THE VIENNA WOODS Richard Jones National Theatre    
2003 HOBSON’S CHOICE Richard Jones Young Vic    
2003 DIMETOS Ben Ormerod Gate Theatre    
2003 AS YOU LIKE IT Gregory Thompson Royal Shakespeare Company    
2002 A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE Kenny Ireland Centreline    
2002 THE DISTANCE FROM HERE David Leveaux Almeida Theatre    
2002 DR. FAUST US David Lan Young Vic&    
2002 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Richard Jones Royal Shakespeare Company    
2001 STREET CAR TO TENNESSEE Timothy Sheader Young Vic    
2001 A RAISIN IN THE SUN David Lan Young Vic    
2001 SIX CHARACTERS LOOKING FOR AN AUTHOR Richard Jones Young Vic    
2000 ROMEO & JULIET Kenny Ireland Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh    
2000 THE SHAUGHRAUN Mark Lambert Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh    
2000 AS YOU LIKE IT Michael Grandage Crucible Theatre, Sheffield & Lyric Theatre    

OPERA includes

2010 CARMEN Jonathan Munby Opera Holland Park  
2010 KNIGHT CREW John Fulljames Glyndebourne Festival Opera  
2010 LA BOHEME (revival) Stuart Laing Scottish Opera  
2009 TOSCA Stephen Barlow Opera Holland Park  
2008 FLORENTINE TRAGEDY/GIANNI SCHICCI John Fulljames Greek National Opera, Athens  
2008 VARJAK PAW John Fulljames The Opera Group  
2008 ROMEO AND JULIET John Fulljames Opera North  
2006 DARDANUS Robert Chevara Royal Academy of Music  
2006 SWEETNESS & BADNESS Jonathan Munby Welsh National Opera  
2005 ROMEO & JULIETTE Olivia Fuchs British Youth Opera  
2005 DON GIOVANNI Olivia Fuchs Opera North  
2004 LA BOHEME Stuart Laing Scottish Opera  
2003 LULU Richard Jones Frankfurt Theatre  
2003 THE TROJANS AT CARTHAGE Richard Jones English National Opera  
2003 THE HANDMAID’S TALE Phyllida Lloyd English National Opera  
2003 THE TROJANS Richard Jones English National Opera  
2002 EURYANTHE Richard Jones Glyndebourne Festival Opera  
2001 MORNING TO MIDNIGHT Richard Jones English National Opera  

FILM

2001 FOUR Large Beast Productions    
1998 RESPECT Oz Hutchins Cari Films  
1997 PROMISES, PROMISES Katherine Windfield Student Film for YTV  

Qualifications

Alison has an MA in Historical Research from Birkbeck College (University of London). She underwent a three-year apprenticeship to Professor Roy Goodall, a founding member of the British Academy of Dramatic Combat, and was Equity’s first female Fight Director. Since 1999 she has sat on the Committee of the Equity Register of Fight Directors.

She is a member of the Worshipful Company of Fletchers and is Archery Coach to the Royal Company of Archers (historically the Queen’s bodyguard in Scotland).

Alison is a British Academy of Fencing Coach and Royal Toxophilite and Former British Ladies Long Bow champion.