Instructors

James Binkley is a Senior Instructor with the Academy of Dramatic Combat and a member of the Society of Canadian Fight Directors.  He has over 200 professional production credits as a fight director including 10 seasons at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and 11 seasons at the Canadian Opera Company. He has worked throughout Canada with numerous companies including the Shaw Festival, Canadian Stage Company, Soulpepper, the National Ballet, the National Arts Centre, Obsidian Theatre Company, the Factory Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Big Art Productions in Montreal, and (r)evolution theatre in Vancouver.

He also works as an actor, stunt performer and stunt coordinator. His acting credits include Nikita, Flashpoint, Beauty and the Beast, The Border, and Heartstopper, credits as a stunt performer number well into the hundreds including Rookie Blue, Breakout Kings, Cinderella Man, RED, The Incredible Hulk, and Land of the Dead, and he has been the stunt coordinator for movies such as Cyborg Soldier, Adoration, Animal 2, and The Last Sect. 

Neil Adams is a graduate from the Humber College School of Creative and Performing Arts, a founding member of Violence in Motion, an instructor with the Academy of Dramatic Combat, fight director and stunt performer. He has taught with Steve Wilsher at Humber College while actively pursuing his stunt and acting career.  He has worked with the Canadian Opera Company, the National Arts Centre, Grand Theatre (Quebec), Ryerson University, Glendale S.S., and Wexford Collegiate.

Selected stunt credits: Suicide Squad, xXx: Return of Xander Cage, Flatliners, Kin,Designated Survivor, Salvation, American Gods, 11.22.63, Heroes: Reborn, Dark Matter, The Strain, Reign, Robocop, Played, and The Listener.

Stratford Festival 2017: Associate Fight Director of Treasure Island, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, Guys and Dolls, HMS Pinafore, School for Scandal, Timon of Athens, The Changeling

Blyth Festival 2014: Fight Director of Kitchen Radio and Stag & Doe

Canadian Opera Company 2014: Assistant Fight Director of Don Quichotte

Stratford Festival 2013: Assistant Fight Director of The Three Musketeers, Romeo and Juliet, Fiddler on the Roof, Blithe Spirit, Measure for Measure, Mary Stuart

Stage Combat Instructor at the National Theatre School in Montreal.

Select TV and Film Stunt Performer Credits: Dark Matter, Designated Survivor, 12 Monkeys, Murdoch Mysteries, Bitten, Reign, The Listener, XIII: The Series

Julia Dyan is a Toronto-based Actor, Fight Director, Stunt Performer and Stage Combat Instructor. She studied at Stella Adler School of Acting, Humber College Theatre Performance, and received her honours BA from The University of Guelph. She completed her Advanced Actor Combatant Certification with the Academy of Dramatic Combat and has since graduated to Instructor with the ADC. Julia is co-founder of Violence in Motion.

Selected Fight Direction/Assistant Fight Direction: Julius Caesar (Spur-of-the-Moment Shakespeare Collective), Macbeth/Richard III (Wolf Manor Theatre Collective), The Three Musketeers (Windsor University), Peter Pan (Glendale S.S.), Les Miserables (Wexford Collegiate), The Night Hart Crane Kissed Me (Toronto Fringe), Diabla Divina (Conqueso Creations/Caminos Festival), and shows with Humber College and Ryerson University.

Selected Stunts: The Umbrella Academy, Designated Survivor, Mouthpiece, Riviera,  Dark Matter, Saving Hope, FarCry 5, The Amazing Race Canada.

Selected Film/TV (acting): The Boys, Private Eyes, Nurses, Taken, Odd Squad, Awake (feature), Conviction, 88.

Selected Theatre (acting): The Birds and The Bees (Sudbury Theatre Centre), Wrong for Each Other (The Foster Festival), Crees in the Caribbean (Magnus Theatre), Komunka (Hooligans Theatre), Albertine in Five Times (Free Prod.).

Jamie Treschak is a Graduate of the University of Windsor’s Drama Program and founding member of Violence in Motion. After becoming an instructor with the Academy of Dramatic Combat, Treschak has gone on to teach at many schools including: Ryerson, Fanshawe College, St. Clair College, Brock University and the University of Windsor. Treschak has worked for Sibling Rivarly Fight Co., and Havoc Stunts.  He continues to fight direct and instruct stage combat for professional and independent theatres throughout the GTA, Niagara region and Windsor-Essex County. 

Fight Direction credits include: The Three Musketeers, Rashomon, As You Like It, Zastrozzi, Evil Dead: the Musical, MacBeth, Dangerous Liaisons, Goodnight Desdemona Good Morning Juliet and many more. 

Jennifer Dzialoszynski began her training with The ADC while studying at Ryerson University, where she graduated from the Acting Department of the Theatre School with a BFA, Honours.  Since graduation she has worked at theatres across the country, and continues to perform, fight direct, and teach.  Fight direction credits include shows at Ryerson University, Humber College, York University – Glendale College, Beacon Theatre, Toronto Fringe Festival, Toronto Summerworks Festival,  Shakespeare Bash’d and others. 

Acting credits include: Four seasons at The Shaw Festival, Mrs. Warren’s Profession (My Theatre Award Nomination), A Woman Of No Importance, Pygmalion, You Never Can Tell, When We Are Married, The Sea, Half an Hour, Harvey; The Three Musketeers, Antony and Cleopatra for The St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival; Hamlet (My Theatre Award Winner) for Shakepeare Bash’d; Jane Eyre, Gone with the Wind for The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre; Macbeth, The Taming of The Shrew for Canadian Stage; August: Osage County for The Citadel Theatre; Kindertransport (Dora Nomination) for The Harold Green Jewish Theatre; Hana’s Suitcase for The Grand Theatre among others. 

Her stunt performer credits include: Rogue, Dark Matter, Bitten, XIII The Series, Aaron Stone, Orphan, Child Wild and others.  Jennifer was the stunt coordinator for the films Picture Day (TIFF) and Public Service.

Ryan Tucker is an Instructor with the Academy of Dramatic Combat and stunt performer with Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. Ryan has taught at the Academy of Dramatic Combat Workshop and Conference, Lees-McRae College, Opera Carolina, and Queens University in Charlotte.

Fight directing credits include: Mystery of Edwin Drood, Oklahoma!, Beauty and the Beast, Night of Faith, and The Sunset Limited. Ryan has assisted Dr. Kara Wooten with Opera Carolina’s Romero Et Julietta and Wake Forest’s She Kills Monsters.  Ryan also holds a position as a fight coordinator and choreographer at Tweetsie Railroad Theme Park in Blowing Rock, North Carolina.

Julianne Dransfield is an actor and theatre creator from Milton, Ontario. She graduated from the University of Guelph with a B.A in Theatre Studies before attending Humber College’s Theatre Performance program. While at Humber, Julianne fell in love with the art of stage combat and is now a Basic Level Instructor with the Academy of Dramatic Combat and an Associate Stage Combat Instructor at Humber College and Ryerson University. Julianne is currently an Assistant Producer with Smoothieland Performance Projects, creating new theatre for young audiences. 

Selected Film/TV: Designated Survivor (SSE with Stunts), Stockholm (SSE with Stunts), Autopsy (Stunt Safety), Dark Matter (SSE with Stunts). 

Selected Theatre: The Team (Safe Words New Canadian Play Festival), Teach Her My Name (HamilTEN Festival), Albertine in Five Times (Freelance Prod.), Melancholiac (Bad New Days Performing Arts), Approaching Zero (Humber Theatre/Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace) and This Side of Heaven (Humber Theatre). 

 Brianna Love (she/her) is an Actor, Writer, and Fight/Intimacy Director based in Toronto—which is quite different from growing up in a small town with a single traffic light and cows in her backyard. She is a graduate of St. Clair’s Musical Theatre Program. When not on stage, in front of a camera, or dealing with writer’s block, Brianna can be found swinging a sword at Violence in Motion, which she co-founded.

Selected Fight Direction:  Icemen, The Play That Goes Wrong, Cats, Twelfth Night, Icemen, Into the Woods, She Kills Monsters, Don Giovanni, Johnathan Dove’s Flight, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Laurels, The Three Musketeers, The Heart of Robin Hood, Macbeth, West Side Story

Selected Teaching Credits: St Clair College, Fanshawe College, Sheridan College, Glenn Gould School of Music, University of Windsor, Brott Opera, University of Toronto Music, Violence in Motion, Lakefield College

Selected Theatre (Acting): Emma, Curious K (Kenton and Lise Productions); Alex, Nerves (Forgetful Poet Theatre); Cassandra, Cassandra (Short, Short Play Festival); The Lady, The White Stag (Short, Short Play Festival); Aggie, The Bucket(Storefront Festival); Universal Understudy, Evil Dead the Musical(Starvox Ent); Cinderella, Cinderella (Chrysler Theatre); Anna, Lucid Encore (Inkubation Project); Marianne, Riveter (WFT)

Nicole Moller is a Toronto-based Actor, Stunt Performer, Producer and Stage Combat Instructor with the Academy of Dramatic Combat. Since graduating with her BFA (honours) from TMU’s School of Performance, Nicole has performed in notable film, television and theatrical productions. She completed her Advanced Actor Combatant Certification with distinction at the ADC and teaches staged combat alongside Steve Wilsher and Kara Wooten at Humber College and TMU. 

Selected Stunts: Murdoch Mysteries, SkyMed, Rabbit Hole, Pins and Needles, Be Mine, Slasher: Ripper

Selected Film/TV: The Boys, Be Mine, My Husband’s Worst Mistake, A Room Without A View

Selected Theatre: Jane & Olivia: A Hollywood Ghost Story, Reefer Madness: Origins, The Crucible, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Peer Gynt, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

David Chinchilla (He/him)

2022: Associate Fight Director of Richard III and Hamlet, Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Stage combat

Instructor: National Theatre School; Etobicoke School of the Arts; Shakespearience, St. Andrews College.

Film/TV: Stunts (selected): The Boys, See, Killjoys, Reacher, Dark Matter, The Expanse, Frankie Drake, Mysteries, and Rabid. @davidchin088