Jason Paul Tate

Jason Paul Tate is a director, choreographer, performer, and special effects designer originally from Kentucky and now based bi-coastally in New York City and San Diego. He is known for creating abstract and deconstructed depictions of violence, and is passionate about consent-forward, radically inclusive theatre-making. Tate’s work has appeared onstage at the Metropolitan Opera, the Public’s Delacorte, and other notable NYC venues, including Ars Nova, BAM, Classic Stage, and Rattlestick Playwright’s Theatre. He was the fight choreographer for the world premiere of Watch Night, the inaugural production at PAC-NYC. Tate has also worked internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe, and in 24 states, including regional credits at A.R.T., Bucks County Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Florida Repertory Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, the Old Globe, On Site Opera, the Ordway, Pensacola Opera, River & Rail, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Theatre Lab, Tuacahn, and Virginia Stage Company. He is the resident fight director and SFX designer for the Tony-Award winning outdoor drama, The Lost Colony. As a guest instructor and professor, Tate has taught and choreographed productions for The New School, New York Film Academy, Hofstra University, Florida State University, the Asolo Conservatory, Coastal Carolina University, Ole Miss, Austin Peay State University, University of Kentucky, University of Central Florida, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Berea College, Transylvania University, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi and the University of North Carolina School for the Arts. Tate is the co-founder of Neutral Chaos, LLC, a movement solutions company offering classes in New York City, and the producing entity for several annual stage combat & stunt workshops across the country. He is on the advisory board of the Connecticut Theatre Exchange, and is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) and Actors’ Equity Association (AEA). He currently serves as the Vice President of the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD), with whom he is also a Certified Teacher and Fight Director.