Philip d’Orléans

Fight Director

Philip is a successfully established Fight Director, working across theatres and screens.

Philip is a member of the Equity Register of Fight Directors, and of the teaching and examining staff of the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat. He has worked throughout Europe and America, alongside his regular teaching commitments for RADA, Drama Studio London and other drama schools and universities.

His recent theatre credits include: Nutcracker for The New Vic Theatre, Peter Pan at The London Palladium, and continuous management of the fights for The Kite Runner (UK Tour), The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC), and Murder on the Orient Express (UK tour).

Further theatre credits include: Measure For Measure and Hamlet (The Globe), The Kite Runner (Broadway), Ravenscourt (Hampstead Theatre), Shakespeare in Love (Norwegian National Theatre), The Prince and the Pauper, Richard III, Henry VI and Bartholomew Fair (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), For Services Rendered and Stitchers (Jermyn Street Theatre), Botticelli in the Fire (Hampstead Theatre), Brassed Off (Northern Broadsides), Richard III (The Rose Theatre Blenheim), Twelfth Night, Merry Wives of Windsor, Murder on the Orient Express (UK tour), Romeo & Juliet (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Henry V (The Rose Theatre York), Agreed (Glyndebourne Opera), Merry Wives of Windsor and King Lear (Shakespeare’s Globe), Andrea Chenier (Royal Opera House), Simon Boccanegra (Greek National Opera), Romeo et Julietter (Korea National Opera), Titus Andronicus (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Outsider (The Print Room),

Brighton Rock (Theatre Royal York), Il Trovatore (Royal Opera House).

Philip’s screen work includes films for Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures and documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4. Recently he was Sword Master for Lockwood & Co.