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So you want my arts job: Fight Director

Nigel Poulton is an award-winning, internationally renowned fight director, weapon and movement specialist, stunt performer and actor. He shares some of his secrets.

26 Aug 2019 12:00

Richard Watts

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Nigel Poulton is an award-winning, internationally renowned fight director, weapon and movement specialist, stunt performer and actor, with expertise in classical, historical and adaptive swordplay, firearms, edged weapon use, kinaesthetic movement processes and combat systems.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts