RICHARD II: King Richard II

LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST: Armado/Cupid/Death

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Fight Choreographer & Captain

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Jon Beal: Shakespeare Theater Company: As You Like It; Chicago Shakespeare Theater: As You Like It, SS! Macbeth; Northlight Theatre: Georgina and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley; The Hypocrites: All Our Tragic, Dracula; Lyric Opera of Chicago: Macbeth, Faust, Bel Canto, Otello, Siegfried, Die Walkure, Das Rheingold, The Barber of Seville, Rigoletto, A Streetcar Named Desire, Hansel and Gretel; Haymarket Opera Company;  Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra, Tamerlano. TV: Chicago PD. MFA from the Academy at Shakespeare Theatre Company; BA from Columbia College Chicago.

Jon has been fight directing and doing blood/gore design for over fifteen years. DC credits include Folger Shakespeare Theater, ExPats Theater, Keegan Theater, Catholic University of America. Chicago credits include Goodman, Paramount Theater, The House, Victory Gardens, The Hypocrites, BoHo Theater, Steep Theater, Theatre Wit, KoKandy Productions, Haymarket Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Muse of Fire Theatre Company, and TimeLine Theater - Jeff Award for Best Fight Direction 2019 / Jeff Award Nomination 2017.