Also, they're connected to an incorrect author profile on Goodreads. I am married to the Richard Gilbert who co-authored this book and he definitely has not traveled the work publishing books about houseplants. This is his first book (with his co-author, David Bareford, who has written one other book and is correctly linked). Below are their bios from the book:
About the Authors
Richard Gilbert, Ph.D. Richard Gilbert’s career as a theatrical violence designer spans over three decades. In that time, he has designed violence for over four hundred productions. He has taught stage combat at every level, from classes for professional actors and four credit courses at university theater programs to private lessons and classes and workshops at high schools, summer camps, and even elementary schools. He has worked on films and developed online content, though his focus has always been theater. Richard has a deep interest in historical martial arts, and he became one of the first fight choreographers who studied actual historical combat and put realistic historical combat on stage rather than the pseudo-Hollywood fencing that was the norm when he was first training.
In the last decade Richard branched out into academia, earning a master’s degree from The University of Chicago and a Doctorate from Loyola University Chicago, with a focus on dramatic theory and representations of violence. While he had already taught many classes at universities as a teaching artist, his academic study gave him better tools to improve his stage combat pedagogy, and to examine how the violence he designs works within the theatrical enterprise. Richard has presented several papers at academic theater and humanities conferences where he has begun to mark out a reputation as a scholar at the intersection of theory and practice in theatrical violence.
David Bareford David began his theatrical training at American Conservatory Theatre Academy in San Francisco and went on to earn a Theatre B.A. from Northwestern College of Iowa. He began studying stage combat in 1990 under David “Pops” Doersch and in the following year began his first foray into violence design. In 1996 he moved to Chicago and met Richard Gilbert and began their long collaboration, which spanned 16 years, over 200 co-designed productions, and dozens of private classes, workshops, and collegiate classes in stage combat taught together.
In 2012, David moved to the Pacific Northwest, where he continues to design violence and teach stage combat. In the last ten years, he has also branched out into directing and playwriting, and has had his scripts produced in several theaters in Washington state, California, Iowa, and New Jersey. In 2017, he launched the Violence Design Lab podcast, a 40-episode series which reached over 5,000 downloads, nearly a third of which were from the HEMA and theater communities in Australia. It remains available on Apple Podcasts.
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Also, they're connected to an incorrect author profile on Goodreads. I am married to the Richard Gilbert who co-authored this book and he definitely has not traveled the work publishing books about houseplants. This is his first book (with his co-author, David Bareford, who has written one other book and is correctly linked). Below are their bios from the book:
About the Authors
Richard Gilbert, Ph.D.
Richard Gilbert’s career as a theatrical violence designer spans over three decades. In that time, he has designed violence for over four hundred productions. He has taught stage combat at every level, from classes for professional actors and four credit courses at university theater programs to private lessons and classes and workshops at high schools, summer camps, and even elementary schools. He has worked on films and developed online content, though his focus has always been theater. Richard has a deep interest in historical martial arts, and he became one of the first fight choreographers who studied actual historical combat and put realistic historical combat on stage rather than the pseudo-Hollywood fencing that was the norm when he was first training.
In the last decade Richard branched out into academia, earning a master’s degree from The University of Chicago and a Doctorate from Loyola University Chicago, with a focus on dramatic theory and representations of violence. While he had already taught many classes at universities as a teaching artist, his academic study gave him better tools to improve his stage combat pedagogy, and to examine how the violence he designs works within the theatrical enterprise. Richard has presented several papers at academic theater and humanities conferences where he has begun to mark out a reputation as a scholar at the intersection of theory and practice in theatrical violence.
David Bareford
David began his theatrical training at American Conservatory Theatre Academy in San Francisco and went on to earn a Theatre B.A. from Northwestern College of Iowa. He began studying stage combat in 1990 under David “Pops” Doersch and in the following year began his first foray into violence design. In 1996 he moved to Chicago and met Richard Gilbert and began their long collaboration, which spanned 16 years, over 200 co-designed productions, and dozens of private classes, workshops, and collegiate classes in stage combat taught together.
In 2012, David moved to the Pacific Northwest, where he continues to design violence and teach stage combat. In the last ten years, he has also branched out into directing and playwriting, and has had his scripts produced in several theaters in Washington state, California, Iowa, and New Jersey. In 2017, he launched the Violence Design Lab podcast, a 40-episode series which reached over 5,000 downloads, nearly a third of which were from the HEMA and theater communities in Australia. It remains available on Apple Podcasts.