When people ask how I started doing stage combat, I simply tell them this: Joan of Arc changed my life.

I had never held a sword before that callback, and not long after my name appeared on that cast list, I suddenly I found myself thrust (no sword pun intended) into a rehearsal room full of carefully orchestrated chaos with a rapier in my right hand and a dagger in my left. I fell in love, and I've never looked back. 

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Laine is a Brooklyn based actor and educator with a passion for immersive, classical theater. Notable experience includes teaching, choreographing, and directing at the New York Renaissance Faire, choreographing for an immersive, educational children's event at the Met Opera, and serving as a teaching assistant at the Philadelphia Stage Combat Workshop. 

In the classroom, Laine has worked as a teaching assistant for Fight Master Michael G. Chin at Pace University, and currently works with CT Jacqueline Holloway as an assistant at Arte Violenta in New York.