Rob Najarian
Lecturer (Stage Combat)
BA, Bowdoin College; MFA, The Shakespeare Theatre's Academy for Classical Acting at George Washington University. Training in movement for contemporary and classical theatre based on the work of Lecoq and Grotowski. Specialist in the combat arts, having studied, instructed, or performed theatrical violence internationally in Italy, Switzerland, England, France, Australia, Canada, and the Untied States. Member of the Society of American Fight Directors, The International Order of the Sword and Pen, and the United Stuntman Association. Guest instructor at the American Repertory Theatre, Emerson College, Boston Conservatory, and Brandeis University. Fight choreography/consulting for numerous productions at professional theaters, colleges, and high schools in the Northeast, including Don Quixote for the Boston Ballet. Appeared in many plays in New England for such companies as Foothills Theatre, Speakeasy Stage, Boston Theatre Works, Stoneham Theatre, and The Underground Railway Theatre. Massachusetts State Certified EMT-B: Instructor of EMT Practical Skills at Northeastern University.