Ray’s first brush with fighting started at fourteen years of age as Jose the Muleteer attacking Don Quixote with a 16th century rake! Since that time, Ray has worked his career as a singer, actor, teacher and fight director. Ray is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors. He obtained his BFA in Performing Arts at Adelphi University in Long Island, NY. He has worked as an actor for over 20 years in New York. He has taught at North Carolina School of the Arts, Harlem School of the Arts and urrently teaches stage combat and basic theater movement at his alma mater. Credits include Rattlestick Theater Company’s “Boise”, New Perspective Theater’s OOBR-winning “Taming of the Shrew” (played Petrucchio), Inwood Hill Shakespeare Festival’s “Treasure Island”(as Long John Silver) and “Three Musketeers”(as Athos). Ray is a member of Actor’s Equity and Screen Actors Guild.