Casey Kaleba

Casey Kaleba has worked as an educator, choreographer, creative consultant, and director.  He has arranged violence and intimacy for opera, musical theatre, and stage for nearly 600 productions with professional, community, and academic theatres. That work includes shows at the Guthrie Theatre, Spoleto Festival USA , Ford's Theatre, Northern Stage, Folger Theatre, Signature Theatre, Round House Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Glimmerglass Festival, Virginia Repertory Theatre, Rorschach Theatre, Wolf Trap Opera, Washington National Opera, Olney Theatre Center, and Signature Theatre. Casey has staged fights for knights, musketeers, princesses, zombies, wolves, pirates, ninjas, and at least one alien tentacle, and he served for several years as an audition choreographer for Marvel Universe Live and on the YouTube show Men At Arms: Reforged.  A Certified Teacher and Fight Director with the Society of American Fight Directors, Casey is a five-time Helen Hayes nominee for his choreography. 

As a historian Casey’s work focuses on the production and reception of staged violence, particularly on the early modern and Victorian English stages.  He has presented papers for the Theatre and Performance Research Association, Mid-American Theatre Conference, Nineteenth Century Studies Association, and American Society for Theatre Research.  Casey has taught extensively, including Catholic University, the University of Mary Washington, Gallaudet University, Montgomery College, and Johns Hopkins University.  He also teaches stage combat and intimacy for the University of Maryland’s Opera program.
 

Education/Training:

Ph.D., Theatre History and Performance Studies, University of Maryland

MA, Theatre History, University of Maryland

BA, Theatre and Dance, James Madison University

Research Expertise:

Theatre History
Stage Combat