Fight Director and University Professor Darrell Rushton has been a Certified Teacher since 2007, a Theatrical Firearms Safety Instructor since 2010, and a SAFD member since his first workshop; the 2000 NSCW. He has taught stage combat both regionally and across the country at The Mid-Atlantic Melee, the Cease and Desist, Allegany Alley Fight, Rumble in the Rockies, Seattle Sockeye, Winter Wonderland Workshop and the NSCW. 

He has been Fight Director for numerous productions at Frostburg State, Ball State University, the Cumberland Theatre, West Virginia Public Theatre, and National Tours with Windwood Theatricals.  He has also been a guest artist at West Virginia University, The University of Oklahoma, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, and Marshall University.

Darrell is a SDC Associate Member, and a Union Member of SAG/AFTRA and AEA with acting credits in New York, Washington, DC, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Florida and Maryland.  Most recently, he choreographed the fights for The Play that Goes Wrong and This Side of the Dirt at The Cumberland Theatre, and was both Fight Director and Director of Taming of the Shrew and Loves Labors Lost there as well. (2023 & 2025)