Fight Master Dale Girard not only teaches actors how to break boards with their bare hands, but might just teach them more about storytelling than any collegiate acting class.  Dale Girard is an award-winning Fight Director, as well as a professional Stunt Coordinator, Director, Martial Artist, Actor, Educator and Author. With over 35 years' experience in professional theatre, opera, and ballet, Dale has staged more than 275 Equity and AGMA productions across the US and Canada, as well as having over 500 additional professional, semi-professional and university fight directing credits. As a stunt coordinator and action artist, Dale has brought his creative vision to over 100 projects in Film, Television and Commercials, and was even set on fire and performed a flaming high fall for the halftime show of Superbowl XXIX.

Dale earned the Honorary Fight Master status with Fight Directors Canada (FDC), honorary membership in the Russian Guild of Stage Movement Directors and is currently one of only 20 Fight Masters with the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD), the largest organization of stage combatants in the world.

On this week's episode of The Actor's Instrument, Dale and Hassiem discuss why Shakespeare always said "they fight" and not "a fight". This discussion contains loads of storytelling tips for actors!