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J David Brimmer

J. David Brimmer, Violence Specialist (Fight Master, SAFD) has choreographed some stuff (selected Broadway: Spring Awakening; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; Grace; Speed the Plow; Thérèse Raquin; Long Day’s Journey into Night; NY premieres: Hold on to Me Darling; Futurity; Gloria; Punk Rock; An Octoroon; Mr. Burns; Blasted; The Whipping Man; Bethany; The American Pilot; Blackbird; Bug; Killer Joe; as well as The Red Bull Theatre’s productions of The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi and The Changeling), worked at some wonderful venues (NY Public Theater, Metropolitan Opera, MTC, LCT3, TFANA, TBTB, Signature Theatre, MCC, Soho Rep, Ars Nova, The Vineyard, The Geffen Playhouse, ART, Yale Rep, The Guthrie), and collaborated with some great folks--writers (David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Ethan Coen, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Simon Stephens, Martin McDonough, Tracy Letts), directors (Joe Chaikin, JoAnne Akalaitis, Darko Tresnjak, Ethan McSweeney, Sarah Benson, Wilson Milam, Joe Mantello, Joel Schumacher, Ken Russell, Franco Zeffirelli), and performers (America Ferrera, Cynthia Nixon, William H. Macy, Andre Braugher, Laura Linney, Jeremy Piven, Raul Esparza, Elizabeth Moss, F. Murray Abraham, Keith Carradine, Kathleen Chalfant, Rumer Willis, Stephen Rea, Ciaran Hinds, Ed Asner, Richard Thomas, Reed Birney, Michael Shannon, Jesse Eisenberg, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, Kerry Condon, Alison Pill, Zosia Mamet, Jeff Daniels, Paul Rudd, Keira Knightly, and Sir Patrick Stewart). “Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.” G. Fox