ARTIST AVATAR
FIGHT DIRECTOR AND INTIMACY DIRECTOR
Adam Noble
United States

About

Biography

Adam Noble is a movement specialist with over 25 years of experience in theater, opera, and film. He is the former movement instructor for the Butler Studio, and this 2024-25 season serves as fight director for Breaking the Waves and fight director and intimacy director for Tannhäuser. In the 2023-24 season, he served as fight director and intimacy director for Parsifal, Madame Butterfly, and Don Giovanni. Additional HGO engagements include serving as the company’s fight director and intimacy director for The Wreckers, La traviata, and Romeo and Juliet (2022); Werther, The Marriage of Figaro, Salome, and Tosca (2023); Carmen (2021); and Don Giovanni (2019). He also served as fight director for Rigoletto (2019) and Julius Caesar (2018). Notable credits include The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Alley Theatre, Opera Carolina, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, Dayton Opera, the Public Theatre, and more. Noble is the co-founder and artistic director of the Dynamic Presence Project, a theater company focused on the revitalization and proliferation of movement theater and embodied physical storytelling. He teaches movement both nationally and internationally, and has choreographed the physicality, violence, and intimacy for well over 200 productions. As the Associate Professor of Acting & Movement at the University of Houston, he serves as Head of the MFA acting program. He is also the resident Fight Director & Intimacy Specialist for The Alley Theatre. 

 

Repertoire

Fight Director and Intimacy Director:

DON GIOVANNI 2018-19

CARMEN 2021-22

ROMEO AND JULIET 2021-22 (Mainstage and Miller Outdoor Theatre)

LA TRAVIATA 2022-23

THE WRECKERS 2022-23

THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO 2022-23

WERTHER 2022-23

TOSCA 2022-23 

SALOME 2022-23

PARSIFAL 2023-24

MADAME BUTTERFLY 2023-24

DON GIOVANNI 2023-24

Fight Director:

JULIUS CAESAR 2017-18

RIGOLETTO 2019-20

 

Actor:

Captain Lawson: A COFFIN IN EGYPT (World premiere)