Christopher Elst

A prominent member of several national theater organizations, including secretary and certified teacher, Society of American Fight Directors; associate instructor, Dueling Arts International; intimacy director in training, Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, and an advocate for safe practices in theaters nationwide, Christopher Elst has performed, directed, and designed violence, movement, and intimacy for professional theaters across the country, including Ogunquit Playhouse, First Stage Children’s Theatre, Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival (now The REV), Next Act Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Skylight Music Theatre, The Milwaukee Rep, and now, Door Shakespeare! Favorite roles include John Wilkes Booth (Assasins, Windfall Theatre), Winston Smith (1984, Bad Example Productions), Teddy Roosevelt (Newsies, Skylight Music Theatre), and Charles the Wrestler (As You Like It, Optimist Theatre.) He thanks his friend, Marcy, for the opportunity to show his personal fight skills at this level and to challenge the skills of his castmates, and his wife, Marcee, for late nights and “joint locks.”