Credentials
- Location: London, Hertfordshire
- Nationality: British
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The first female fight director on Equity’s Register, Alison de Burgh has been one of the foremost Fight Directors in the UK, counting, amongst many hundreds of credits, work for the RSC, National Theatre, Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne and nearly every repertory theatre in the country. She has also worked extensively with, amongst others, the National Youth Theatre, the Royal College of Music, Trinity Laban and Arts Ed on student productions. She is also an Intimacy Co-Ordinator.
Most recently Alison has been Archery Advisor on the original stage production of The Hunger Games.
Some of her many Theatre credits include: Playhouse Creatures (Orange Tree/Bath); Paranormal Activity; Withnail & I (Birmingham Rep); The Crown Jewels; The Man in The White Suit (West End); The Shawshank Redemption; The Da Vinci Code; Dial M for Murder; My Cousin Rachel; What’s In A Name?; The Girl on the Train (UK Tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hull Truck); Blackmail (Mercury, Colchester); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); Gin Craze (Royal & Derngate); The Last King of Scotland (Sheffield Crucible); Jubilee (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Ladykillers (Lyric Belfast); Elephant (Birmingham Rep); Intemperance (New Vic); The Sweet Science of Bruising (Southwark Playhouse); A View From the Bridge and The Scotsboro Boys (Young Vic); A Small Family Business (National Theatre) and It’s A Mad World My Masters (RSC).
Film work includes: Mindhorn; The Wall of Lyon; Being Othello; Mine; The Dark Room; Ghost Story; Stubborn and Spite; Four; Respect; Promises, Promises.
Fights for Television include: Lemon La Vida Loca; Maestro; The Hour; The Eleventh Hour.
Alison also has an extensive list of stage fight credits for Opera which includes: Tosca, Carmen, La Fanciulla del West and Barber of Seville (Holland Park Opera), Rigoletto, Carousel, Romeo and Juliet, Don Giovanni (Opera North), Don Giovanni, Knight Crew, Euryanthe (Glyndebourne Opera), The Handmaid’s Tale, The Trojans at Carthage (English National Opera), La Boheme (Scottish Opera), Sweetness and Badness (Welsh National Opera), Florentine Tragedy, Gianni Schicci (Greek National Opera), Varjak Paw (The Opera Group).
She regularly works with the Royal College of Music on fights for their opera productions.