Swords and Shakespeare Youth Summer Camp

Director: Alan Malone

Director Malone hails from Dublin, Ireland and has lived in the US since 1990. Alan was a cofounder of the Naples Repertory Theater in Naples, Florida before moving to Chicago in 1993 where he studied at Victory Gardens, Meisner Technique at the Actors Center, and stage combat at the Actors Gymnasium. He worked on more than 50 productions in Chicago as an actor, director, and fight choreographer.

In 2001, he was a member of the acting apprentice program at the Actors Theater of Louisville performing in Dracula and the SITI Co. production of Hayfever. He performed in the outdoor drama Blue Jacket and the western Shane in Ohio, the educational tour of The Tempest with the McCarter Theater in Princeton, New Jersey, and spent five years on tour performing in 44 different states with the theater company Poetry Alive! out of Asheville, North Carolina.

Since moving to Waterloo in 2009, he has designed fights for The Hobbit and Treasure Island and was also fight designer/assistant director for Beauty and the Beast at the Black Hawk Children's Theater. He was an animal control officer for Black Hawk County and is now the volunteer and educational coordinator for the Cedar Bend Humane Society.