Giselle Chatelain (She/Her/Hers)

Giselle M. Chatelain:  is currently running workshops at Children's Shakespeare Theatre and will be choreographing their spring 2022 Hamlet. She is training with Jacqueline Holloway and assisted her at the Strasberg Institute. She has served as fight choreographer for The Country Husband (Unfringed Festival); I Hope They Serve Beer on Broadway (Gorilla Rep), Beauty and the Beast (JPAS), Camelot (Rivertown Repertory Theatre  & Slidell Little Theatre), and Romeo and Juliet (Hedgerow Theatre).She is a member of The Complete Theatre Company. Giselle also spent 2 years as an Acting Fellow at Hedgerow Theatre in Rose Valley, PA. She served as Assistant Managing Director for the 2012 & 2013 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, and has stage managed productions of Broken, Where I Come From (KRT) and A Kidsummer Night’s Dream (JPAS). She has also worked as the Office Manager at KRT, Box Office Manager at JPAS, & Theatre Instructor at The Children’s Theatre of New Orleans.Audiobooks: The Tiny Spider; Penelope Bovine Dreams Big; Elivs; Escape from Dragon Dungeon; Zebi's Dream; Mama, I Want to See God; Last Night, When I Prayed; Lumi the Light Learned to Shine; Iloray: A Mermaid Story; Iris Before the Storm; Nocturnal Animals Part 3, An Amish Love Reclaimed; Nine KIngs : Episodes 1 & 2; I Will Always Love YOu: A 9/11 Story; Carrie Sue's Diary: A Thriler..  Film & Television: Jamie in the YouTube webseries American Kirare-Yaku, Lt. Sandra Parker in Necrosis Inc.: Requiem; Off-Broadway: Carny/ensemble in Woyzeck Musical Deathmetal (Gorilla Rep.) NY: Marcy in Group Hug, Val in An Impossible Love, A Mrs. Codier in Close it Down; Wife in Collision with Cake (Manhattan Rep), Sally December/Lady Snowflake in Soul Samurai, Tilly in She Kills Monsters (York College), Attendant in Iphigenia in Aulis (UTC # 61 & La Mama), Aellin in First to Draw to Blood (Mortal Folly Theatre), Regional Theatre: Mrs. Fezziwig/Mrs. Cratchit in A Christmas Carol; Fate 3 in Mythunderstood (No. 11 Productions/KRT); Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Silk Dress Productions); Jo in A Taste of Honey, Charlotte in The Night of the Iguana, and Collette in Brewed (Four Humours Theatre Company).


Skill Proficiency History

Date Weapon Location Grade

Arte Violenta

Sep 26, 2023 Broadsword New York, New York Recommended Pass
Sep 26, 2023 Quarterstaff New York, New York Recommended Pass

Summer Sling '23 SPR

Aug 18, 2023 Small Sword Brooklyn, New York Recommended Pass
Aug 18, 2023 Broadsword and Shield Brooklyn, New York Basic Pass

Summer Sling SPR

Aug 21, 2022 Unarmed New York, NY, New York Basic Pass
Aug 21, 2022 Rapier and Dagger New York, NY, New York Recommended Pass
Aug 21, 2022 Single Sword New York, NY, New York Recommended Pass

Neutral Chaos Summer 2018

Sep 16, 2018 Broadsword New York, New York Recommended Pass

Swordplay R&D 17

Jun 14, 2017 Rapier and Dagger New York, New York Recommended Pass

Neutral Chaos Spring 2017

Jun 13, 2017 Quarterstaff New York, New York Recommended Pass

Swordplay SmS1 2017

Mar 18, 2017 Small Sword New York, New York Basic Pass

Neutral Chaos Fall 2016

Dec 18, 2016 Unarmed New York, New York Recommended Pass

SwordplayS&S16

Oct 1, 2016 Broadsword and Shield New York, New York Recommended Pass

Swordplay SiS1 2016

Aug 8, 2016 Single Sword New York, New York Recommended Pass

Swordplay KN1 2016

May 14, 2016 Knife New York, New York Recommended Pass

Swordplay

Jun 6, 2015 Knife New York, New York Basic Pass
Sep 27, 2014 Broadsword and Shield New York, New York Basic Pass
Jul 14, 2013 Rapier and Dagger New York, New York Basic Pass
Apr 14, 2013 Broadsword and Shield New York, New York Basic Pass
Nov 18, 2012 Quarterstaff New York, New York Recommended Pass
Sep 23, 2012 Single Sword New York, New York Basic Pass
May 13, 2012 Broadsword New York, New York Recommended Pass
Mar 24, 2012 Knife New York, New York Basic Pass

Swordplay, NYC

Jul 13, 2014 Broadsword New York, New York Recommended Pass
Jul 13, 2014 Rapier and Dagger New York, New York Recommended Pass
Jul 13, 2014 Unarmed New York, New York Recommended Pass
Jul 13, 2014 Small Sword New York, New York Recommended Pass
May 31, 2014 Single Sword New York, New York Recommended Pass
Apr 13, 2014 Unarmed New York, New York Basic Pass
Feb 23, 2014 Knife New York, New York Basic Pass

Louisiana Tech Stage Combat Workshop

Apr 24, 2011 Small Sword Ruston, Louisiana Basic Pass
Apr 24, 2011 Quarterstaff Ruston, Louisiana Basic Pass