BIOGRAPHY
U. Jonathan Toppo
A.R.T.: Othello. OSF (twenty-eight seasons, Resident Fight Director): Sense and Sensibility; Destiny of Desire; Oklahoma!; Snow in Midsummer; Henry V; Manahatta; The Way the Mountain Moved; Romeo and Juliet; The Book of Will; Love’s Labor’s Lost; Julius Caesar; Shakespeare in Love; UniSon; Off the Rails; Hannah and the Dread Gazebo; Henry IV, Part One; Henry IV, Part Two; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; The Odyssey; Hamlet; The Wiz; Richard II; Guys and Dolls; Fingersmith; Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land; Sweat; Pericles; Long Day’s Journey into Night; A Wrinkle in Time; The Comedy of Errors; Water by the Spoonful; Richard III; Into the Woods; Vietgone; Assistant fight director, 1994–2008; Resident Fight Director, 2008–2018. Broadway: Sweat (Drama Desk Award, Best Fight Choreography), Studio 54, Public Theater. Regional: Guthrie Theater; Portland Opera; Seattle Rep. Teaching: Certified associate instructor with Dueling Arts International.