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CHRISTOPHER DUVAL
 
MFA Acting, University of California Irvine
BA Theatre, California State University Fullerton
 
Senior Instructor of Stage Combat - Dueling Arts International
Actor/Combatant - Society of American Fight Directors
1st Degree Blackbelt - Aikido
 

Christopher is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Idaho, where he teaches acting, movement, and voice / speech.

He was a member of company at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for a decade appearing in over 1700 performances in 26 productions.  Productions at OSF include such roles as Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, both of the Dromio's in Comedy of Errors, Autolycus in The Winter's Tale, Yepikhodov in The Cherry Orchard, Somerset in Henry VI Parts I, II, III, Sheriff in The Trip to Bountiful, and Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night.

Christopher has also worked as an actor and/or fight director at South Coast Repertory, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Orange County , California Youth Theatre - John Anson Ford Theatre, Riverside Civic Light Opera, and the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.  He has had the opportunity to work with such directors as Libby Appel, Bill Rauch, Tony Taconne, Lisa Peterson, JR Sullivan, Kathleen Conlin, Paul Barnes, Jim Edmondson, Ellen Geer, Peggy Shannon, Michael Addison, Penny Metropolus, Robert Cohen, Eli Simon, David Chambers, Martin Benson, Mark Rucker, Barbara Damashek, and Tim Bond.

He has been an adjunct instructor, guest instructor, director, or fight director at such institutions as California  State  University Fullerton, California Institute of Technology, Southern Oregon University, Southern Utah University, Chapman College, El Camino College, Irvine Valley College, Pomona College and at many other high schools, colleges, and university programs throughout the west.

Christopher is recognized as a Senior Instructor of Stage Combat with Dueling Arts International and holds Actor/Combatant status in all eight weapons with the Society of American Fight Directors. In addition, he is an active student of Aikido, a martial art in which he holds a 1st degree blackbelt.  He is particularly interested in the study of the physical life of the actor.  He continues to study and research various movement, stage combat, acting, and voice/speech disciplines in his work as a teacher, fight director, director, and actor.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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