STAGE COMBAT & INTIMACY DESIGN

Christina Gorman began her stage intimacy and combat choreography career with 2013's  HAPPY NOW for Shattered Globe, and has since gone on to create fights and/or intimacy staging for over 20 productions at theaters including Steppenwolf, A Red Orchid, Steep, Northlight, Griffin, Lifeline and Shattered Globe.

In addition to studying under lauded stage combat instructors such as  Richard Ryan, ​Roger Bartlett, Neil Massey, Patrick Kelly, Nick Sandys
Chuck Coyl, and John Tovar, Christina has received her SAFD certifications in Unarmed combat, Knife, Small Sword, Single Sword, Quarterstaff, Broadsword and Shield, and Rapier and Dagger.

Christina also completed a prestigious IDC (the Intimacy Directors and Coordinators Association) stage intimacy workshop where she studied with industry leaders such as Ashley White, Dan Granke, Adam Noble, and has taken a 1 day workshop with IDC Executive Director Tonia Sina.​

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"Credit goes to Christina Gorman for her realistic fight choreography. She makes the violence quite believable, which is difficult
given the close proximity to the audience"
(TRUE WEST/ Shattered Globe)
~ CHICAGO THEATRE REVIEW 
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"Kudos to actors and fight choreographer Christina Gorman for their handling of the harrowing yet comically extreme stage violence"
(TRUE WEST/ Shattered Globe)
~ CHICAGO READER 
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​  "Christina Gorman’s work as fight choreographer was clearly helpful"
(TRAITOR/Red Orchid)
~ CULTURE VULTURE

"A precision-drilled ensemble... with a verbal dexterity matched by their physical mastery of Christina Gorman's full-contact violence"
(BRILLIANT ADVENTURES / Steep)
~ WINDY CITY TIMES​

"Adjacent to the violence is oddball humor...kudos to the production team including fight choreographer Christina Gorman"(POMONA/ Steep)
~ SPLASH MAG
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"The violence clearly disturbed some in the audience...
and might well be triggering. Please be warned." 
(POMONA/ Steep)
~ CHICAGO TRIBUNE 

​​"The show’s fight scenes (choreographed by
Christina Gorman) are superbly done"
(IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT/ Shattered Globe)
~ CHICAGO SUN TIMES 

 "The fights designed by Christina Gorman are horrifying"
(IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT/ Shattered Globe)
~ CHICAGO CRITIC

"Of special note was the fight Choreography (Christina Gorman) and in this case, the fighting was not all just fighting, but story-telling and keeping the audience at an intense level."
(WASTWATER/ Steep)
​~ AROUND THE TOWN