"Movement is in the body and acting is in the moment"
- Andrew Dylan Ray
"There is difficult and there is dangerous, but there is never impossible"
- Jake Guinn
Rat Pack Productions is a stage combat and stunt company founded by Andrew Dylan Ray and Jake Guinn. The company consists of 7 members who have all trained under Fight Master Mark “Rat” Guinn and who share similar views on the art of stage violence. As fight directors, Rat Pack Productions pushes the audience’s expectation of staged violence all the while creating a fun, safe environment for the actors to explore their physical performance on a deeper level. As educators of stage combat, Rat Pack Productions is a collection of some of the finest up and coming talents within the Society of American Fight Directors and continue to evolve the way stage combat and movement performance is taught to the actor. Rat Pack Productions’ long term goal is to be a fully operational, self sustaining professional theatre and professional training facility. Our focus is to give our students premier stage combat and movement training opportunities while producing the most original and innovative movement based performances in theatre. Rat Pack Productions also travels, teaching workshops, directing fights and acting with other professional companies, colleges and universities across the country. Rat Pack Productions has coordinated and performed stunts, stage combat and other various forms of movement based performance from coast to coast.
