Ian Claar is a lighting designer and staged violence & intimacy choreographer and has been involved in theatre and the performing arts for 15 years. He has a degree in Design and Technical Theatre from Christopher Newport University, is an Actor/Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors and is the Managing Director of the Noble Blades, stage combat troupe. He is also a proud member of I.A.T.S.E, local 22.
Previous designs include Ada and the Engine (Avant Bard), Matilda (Levine Music Theatre), Overtures (Signature Theatre), Grand Concourse (Prologue Theatre), My Father’s Dragon (Synetic), Topographies (Human Landscape/Space Time Dance), and Anon(ymous) (Theatre Prometheus).
Previous fight directions include Einstein’s Wife (ExPats Theatre), Suddenly Last Summer (Avant Bard), The Game’s Afoot (Reston Players), She Kills Monsters (DC International School), Or, (Theatre Prometheus), The Lion King, Jr. (Encore Stage&Studio), and Superior Donuts (Reston Players).