Jason Paul Tate is a New York City based director, choreographer and performer who has been fortunate enough to speak the speech at the Public's Delacorte, tread the boards at the Metropolitan Opera and to walk the planks of a Pirate stunt show. As a movement and fight director he has collaborated with world renowned acrobats, tango dancers and string musicians. Credits include the Edinburgh and New York Fringe, A.R.T., BAM, Classic Stage, Great Lakes Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Ars Nova, Rattlestick, and The Lost Colony. Jason is a proud member of SDC, a certified instructor of stage combat with the Society of American Fight Directors; and the co-founder of Neutral Chaos, LLC; a movement solutions company in DUMBO dedicated to training artists to tell physical stories. He moonlights as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice at his alma mater, Florida State University where he shares responsibilities in Theatre, Opera and Film.