FIGHT LAB INSTRUCTORS

Nathania is a Filipino-Canadian actor, choreographer, director, writer and producer and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and Education from Concordia University of Alberta. She is grateful for the incredible opportunities to intensively train as an actor in different mediums abroad. Training with such Schools and Companies like the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art(London), SITI Company(New York), Zen Zen Zo (Melbourne), Diavolo Dance (Los Angeles), Rapier Wit (Toronto), DynamO Théâtre (Montreal) and Second City (Chicago). Nathania has a profound love for physical theatre. She is President on the Board of Directors and an apprentice with The Academy of Fight Directors Canada. Nathania is the Artistic Director of Affair of Honor and has had the pleasure to Fight Direct for companies like Caravan Theatre, Project X Theatre Under the Stars (Kamloops,BC), Pi Theatre, Suitcase In Point (St. Catherine's,ON) and Urban Ink Productions.

Jackie T. Hanlin is an actor, fight choreographer and producer hailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She received her BA in Drama from Bishops University in 2015, and moved to Vancouver where she began her stage combat studies and work with her fight/producing partner Nathania Bernabe, co-founding Affair of Honor. Jackie is currently an apprentice with The Academy of Fight Directors Canada. Since 2015 she has had the pleasure of being an actor, choreographer, writer and producer within Affair of Honor, producing Qui Nguyen’s Soul Samurai (Vancouver Fringe festival 2017/18) in which the fight and movement design received a Jessie Nomination in 2018, Karen Basset’s Heroine (Edmonton Fringe Festival 2018), House of Arms: an improvised fight episodic (2018), Playthings (Edmonton Fringe Festival 2019/Presentation House Theatre 2021), Fairlith Harvey’s Kill The Ripper (Presentation House Theatre/Rio Theatre 2022) Jovanni Sy’s The Five Vengeances (Shadbolt Centre for the arts 2022) and Multi-Vs (Edmonton Fringe 2023/rEvolver Festival 2024).

Mike is a local theatre educator, performer, and director. His extensive
Shakespeare teaching experience includes working with Bard on the Beach since 1997; ongoing professional development with Bard as well as virtually with Folger
Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.; Shakespeare in the Classroom
workshops with Oregon Shakespeare Festival; guest director of six Shakespeare productions with Smithers Secondary and one recently with Sentinel Secondary;
workshop Leader at the Good Will Shakespeare Festival in Vernon, B.C.; and numerous ongoing Shakespeare workshops throughout the Lower Mainland Homelearning community. Mike is also one of the creators and directors for Mortal Coil Performance Society and the Ghost Train in Stanley Park. As a performer, he has worked with many of the city’s theatre companies and has
been fortunate enough to tour throughout North America and overseas. He also serves as an adjudicator of Speech Arts at festivals throughout British Columbia
and Alberta. Mike is a multiple Jessie Award nominee and recipient, and a
graduate of the Studio 58 Professional Theatre training program.