New Zealand: Tony Wolf

email: tonywolf@gmail.com

A veteran of the martial and performing arts, Tony Wolf has worked as a
martial arts instructor, professional wrestler and fight director/stunt
co-ordinator. Between 1988 - 1994 he developed his
original Wolf System of performance/combat exercises, which has been taught
to actors, martial artists, stunt performers and stage combat specialists
throughout the world.

Tony's fight direction and action design have been featured in over two
hundred feature film, television, theatre, opera and ballet productions. 
Between 1998-2000 he served as the Fighting Styles Designer for Peter
Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, creating a series of fantasy martial
arts and fighting systems for the eight major character types featured in
the movies. In 2002 he toured Japan performing fights for the Washington
Opera Company's production of Otello, starring Placido Domingo.

Tony regularly teaches a range of master-classes and seminars for martial
arts associations, universities, stunt teams, acting academies and
performance conferences throughout New Zealand, Australia, the USA, Canada
and Europe. He serves as the editor for the EJMAS Journal of Manly Arts, a
scholarly online journal focusing on the martial arts and combat sports of
the Victorian and Edwardian eras, and in 2005 he edited the Bartitsu
Compendium, a complete history of E.W. Barton-Wright's "New Art of Self
Defence".
 

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