Board Of Directors

From IOSP

• BRAD WALLER, IOSP Founder; Chair
  Brad has been a teacher and fight director with The Shakespeare Theater (Washington DC). He has produced the International Paddy Crean Workshop with such cultural institutions as: The Shakespeare Theater, The Smithsonian Institution, The Folger Library, The Shaw Festival, The Stratford Festival (Canada), and the Banff Centre for the Arts. Brad is an internationally recognized scholar in 16th Century fighting systems, and was guest curator of the 1995 exhibit The Sword and the Pen at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
  Email: bwaller@iosp.org
• MICHAEL J. MENDELSON, Secretary; Vice Chair
  Michael, a practising attorney in Washington, DC, has been a member of the IOSP Board of Directors since 2001. He is also an accomplished practitioner of swordplay and the martial arts with over 15 years experience. Michael met Brad Waller in 1999, with whom he currently studies stage combat.
• RANDALL READE, Treasurer
  Randy is an attorney in Washington, DC, who served for 15 years at the U.S. Department of Labor. He graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo and Case Western Reserve University Law School in Cleveland, Ohio. He currently operates Zipzone Limited, a company selling U.S. and Canadian software to distributors in Asian countries. Randy also teaches piano and is on the Board of Directors of the Washington National Music Teacher's Association. He was formerly on the Board of Directors of Opera Music Theater International.
• PEPPE ÖSTENSSON, Member (SWEDEN)
  As Founder and President of Nordic Stage Fight Society, Swedish-born Peppe has worked as a teacher, actor and fight choreographer for theatre, television and film throughout Scandinavia. Beside founding the International Nordic Stage Fight Summer program in 1992, he has taught at a number of stage fight workshops in Estonia, Canada and USA , and was made Honorary Fight Master by Fight Directors, Canada in 2001. His credits include choreographing for The National Theatre in Norway and Malmbaletten in Sweden.
  Email: postenssen@iosp.org