About the Instructor: John Patrick Hayden is an SAFD Advanced Actor Combatant with extensive experience performing, choreographing, and teaching stage combat for theatre and film for over 23 years He is also a Broadway and regional theatre actor with recurring and guest roles on Netflix and Hulu and a filmmaker with  films awarded in the festival circuit and a feature screenplay he cowrote optioned. His work across stage, screen, and fight direction informs an integrated approach to performance where movement, character, and narrative are inseparable.