Jenny Male (she/her) is a Fight Director, Certified Teacher, and Fight Master with the Society of American Fight Directors. She has created fight choreography for DC/Baltimore theatres such as Studio Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Constellation Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Rep Stage, Olney Theatre, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Everyman Theatre, ArtsCentric, Imagination Stage, Factory 449, and Adventure Theatre.  

 Jenny directed the outdoor drama Tecumseh! from 2014 to 2017 and for many years served as its Fight Director and Dance Choreographer.  Other professional directing credits include Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Scioto Society), My Fair Lady, As You Like It (Ozark Actors Theatre), Into The Woods, Evil Dead: The Musical, Urinetown, The Secret Garden, The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and [title of show] (Red Branch Theatre Company), Peter Pan (Children’s Theatre of Charlotte), and How I Became a Pirate (Adventure Theatre).

 She holds an MFA in Theatre Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University and is Associate Professor of Theatre at Howard Community College. Two of her HCC productions, Argonautika and Medea, were chosen to perform for the American College Theatre Festival (Region 2). Jenny has created several stage combat shows at HCC including Love Hurts, We Could Be Heroes, and A Little Fight Music.  She has also taught stage combat classes and directed shows at Stevenson University and Towson University.

 Jenny is one of the coordinators for the Mid-Atlantic Melee and has taught at other regional SAFD workshops such as the Tourist Trap, Summer Sling, The MAC, Virginia Beach Bash, Scenic City Slam, Fight Director Training Workshop, Philadelphia Stage Combat Workshop, and Louisiana Stage Combat Workshop.  Jenny first attended the National Stage Combat Workshop in 1998, and she was delighted to teach many years later at the NSCW in 2022 and 2023.  She is a recipient of the SAFD President’s Award and served on the Governing Body as the Certified Teacher Representative (2019-2021).