Ian Claar is an award winning staged violence and intimacy choreographer as well as teaching artist and active member of the stage combat community. He has choreographed the fights, intimacy, and movement for productions through the DC Metro region at the professional, community, and academic levels; with styles involuting various martial arts, sword-play, grappling, found weaponry, and more! He has a passion for the art and technique of stage combat and stunt performance and is an advocate for the safe and skilled application and education of the art to all performing arts organisations, and especially to young performers.

Ian is a current Advanced Actor / Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors and 2024 FDW Candidate, a proud Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographer's Society, and the Managing Director of The Noble Blades stage combat troupe, out of Northern Virginia. He is one of the Founders and Coordinators of the Mid-Atlantic Melee regional stage combat workshop.

Production Fight Choreographer credits include: NextStop Theatre Company: A Midsummer Night's Dream.  Workhouse Arts Center: The Art of Murder.  Theatre Prometheus: Or,.  Victorian Lyric Opera: The New Moon, El Capitan.  Reston Players: Peter and the Starcatcher, Superior Donuts [WATCH Award], Time Stands Still, The Game's Afoot, Newsies, Cabaret.  Little Theatre of Alexandria: Key for Two, Mary Stuart.  Levine Music Thetare: Matilda.  Encore Stage & Studio: Lion King, Jr.  DC International School: Peter and the Starcatcher, Clue, She Kills Monsters. 

Photo Credit: FightGuy Photography