Kaitlyn Farley

Teaches at NYC Stage & Screen Combat

Certified Instructor: Unarmed & Saber

Kaitlyn strives to stay well versed in various unarmed and weapons combat systems. Her acting, music and dance background assist in her approach to all combat. She loves to teach, inform, create and collaborate with new and innovative artists while using violence and fight performance to enhance and tell our stories. 

Kaitlyn began her combat career in 2013 with NYCSS and her current favorite weapons are spear, chain and longsword.  In 2017 she trained intensively with ASCA in Sydney Australia, gaining her certification as an advanced combatant and basic instructor with their company. Kaitlyn is on faculty as a Stage Combat Instructor with The New York Conservatory for the Dramatic Arts and assists at The Tom Todoroff Conservatory. She has worked on a multitude of short films and indie projects throughout NYC as both a fight choreographer and combatant and is also a producer, assistant choreographer and star of her own action series, The Hunted: NYCSS. CREDITS: Has worked with Hudson Warehouse NY, for their past three seasons as a Fight Director and Assistant Fight Director working on recent productions; Hamlet, Antony & Cleopatra & The Merry Wives of Windsor. She is also the new resident Fight Director for RudeGrooms NYC based in Queens, having worked on Romeo & Juliet, and receiving acclaim for her violence in their production of The Changeling. Other notable favorites are Neverwhere (US premiere) adapted from the Neil Gaiman novel with Red Monkey Theatre Group and BFF; a dark comedy (Off-Broadway).