Laine
Flores
Actor, Fighter, Educator
Laine Flores is a Brooklyn-based performer and fight director with a passion for classical texts, immersive entertainment, and devised theatre. With her unique background in neuroscience, she is able to approach her craft as an actor from the inside, out, and from the outside, in - pulling from the philosophies of Stanislavsky and William James to inform her understanding of the mind-body connection for performance.
Long story short: Joan of Arc changed my life
I had never held a sword before, and suddenly I was thrust into a rehearsal room with a rapier in my right hand and a dagger in my left, playing Joan de Pucelle in an adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry VI.
And I fell in love.
Thanks to the tutelage and support of Fight Masters, Certified Teachers, and many other talented individuals, I now hold eight weapon certifications through the Society of American Fight Directors, and the rank of Advanced Actor/Combatant.
I work as a fight director all around New York, and as a teaching assistant at Arte Violenta in the West Village.