Renny Krupinski

Renny Krupinski is a British Equity Registered Fight Director, award-winning actor and writer as well as a director and teacher.

Born

In Essex and lived his formative years in and around London. He has been resident now in the NW for over twenty years.

Trained/Educated

Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, qualified fencing coach, senior grade in Iwama style Aikido.

Companies/Organisations

Theatre fights include: Currently he has directed fights for Coriolanus and Antony & Cleopatra at Shakespeare's Globe in London. 99% of all fights for Royal Exchange Manchester over the past seven years, all fights for Library Theatre Manchester over the past 14 years. Birmingham Rep (including the now infamous Behzti), Oldham Coliseum, Abbey Theatre Dublin; Lyric Belfast; Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse; West Yorkshire Playhouse; Basingstoke Haymarket (now appallingy due to close); Live Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; New Vic Stoke; Leicester Haymarket. The Three Musketeers (Young Vic); Twelfth Night (RSC); Les Miserables (1st UK tour, Germany, Belgium); The Postman Always Rings Twice in London's West End with Val Kilmer.

TV fights include

Love Lies Bleeding, Distant Shores, Blue Murder, The Bill, City Central, Elidor, A&E, Emmerdale, Brookside, Hollyoaks, Peak Practice and all the violence for Coronation Street over the past five years.

Television acting includes

A Touch of Frost, The Marchioness Disaster, The Falkland's Play, Beech Is Back, City Central, Elidor, Just Us, Silent Witness and the cult villain Sizzler in Brookside.

Renny is also the voice and face of OBLIVION at Alton Towers.

Theatre acting includes

Salieri /AMADEUS (twice), Capulet/ ROMEO & JULIET, Banquo/MACBETH, Launcelot Gobbo/ THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Arden/BARE national tour.

Directing includes

Romeo & Juliet, Bare, Katie Crowder, The Comedy Of Errors, Titus Andronicus, Arabian Nights & Lady Macbeth Rewrites The Rulebook.

Writing includes

Bare (Mobil Playwriting Award); D'Eon; Katie Crowder; Lady Macbeth Rewrites The Rulebook; 3 years on The Bill and many BBC Radio comedies.

Teaching includes

Master at arms at Manchester Metropolitan University since 1993. Previously also at: Academia Contemporânea Do Espectáculo, Porto, Portugal (1995 – 1998); Arden School of Theatre (1993 – 2001); Liverpool theatre school (2003). Guest workshops in Manchester; Atlantic College @ St. Donat's Castle, Wales; University of Mississippi; Gaeity Theatre Dublin; Live theatre, Newcastle.

Career Highlights

Having my first script accepted for television, playing Salieri in Amadeus, several Poker championship finals, the British Monopoly Championships 1977 and working with so many extraordinary people and managing to still be here after 30 years in the profession.

Personal

Last year Renny achieved a personal ambition by riding single handed across the Gobi Desert on a horse and spent the best part of a month living with nomads in Mongolia. Life changing and wonderful in possibly one of the last unspoilt Countries in the world. He has three children, two with Fragile X Syndrome … much misunderstood and largely unheard of. He supports the Fragile X Syndrome charity and any further information can be found at www.fragileX.org.

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