Giselle Chatelain (She/Her/Hers)
Giselle M. Chatelain is currently running workshops at Children's Shakespeare Theatre and is their resident fight director, having choreographed Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Two Noble Kinsmen, Antigone (Jean Anouilh), & Scapin. She trains 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). Giselle 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: Riley/Walter/Jack in The Cruelty-Free Confessions of Hannah Blake, Marcy in Group Hug, Val in An Impossible Love, 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 |
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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 |