Rick Sordelet and Christian Kelly-Sordelet are Fight Directors and creators of Sordelet Inc., an exciting and award-winning combat company bringing over fourty years of action movement experience to the NYC-based theatre community.

Their 80+ Broadway productions include Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Tina - The Tina Turner Musical, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Pirates! The Penzance Musical, Waiting for Godot/No Man’s Land, and Picnic. Their credits also include more than 60 first-class productions on five continents in hundreds of cities around the world including Ben Hur Live both in Rome and the European Tour.

Rick and Christian have been fight directors at our country’s best regional theaters across the U.S. with shows ranging from Sam Shepard to William Shakespeare.

They have had dozens National Tours running across the United States and North America.

Both Rick and Christian are stunt coordinators for television and film with over 1,000 episodes of daytime television and numerous feature films.

Rick has been teaching stage combat for Yale School of Drama for twenty years, as well as the William Esper Studio in NYC.

Christian teaches Stage Combat at HB Studio, CCNY, and CUNY Harlem.

Rick, with his partner David Blixt, also runs an electronic publishing company called Sordelet INK.

 

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