William LeDent
Acting Teacher, Actor, Assistant Director, Choreographer, Crew, Director, Location Scout, Production Assistant, Set Designer, Stage Director, Studio Teacher, Stunt Coordinator, Stunt Performer, Theatre Director and Voice Actor
Washington, D. C.
June 2015
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About William
Actor, Director, Stunt performer/Fight Choreographer, Acting Teacher, Production/Crew, Artist
For several years, he freelanced as a commercial artist and graphic designer in print media and photography, as well as in fine art including portraits and murals. (See artwork.) Anxious to further his other great love in theater, he started at a local college (Grossmont) where he took on several leading roles and a total of nine plays in three years, including Shakespeare (for which his studies included period dance), Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde and a variety of musicals.
William then transferred to the world-renowned theater program at UCLA, studying both acting and voice. He also focused heavily on movement training, and added martial arts to his repertoire, resulting in an intense, very physical brand of stagecraft. Furthering this interest, he continued his personal-training work, with clients including an NFL defensive back and Alexander professor Jean Louis Rodrigue, with whom he later worked to create the character movements for the morlocks in the 2002 remake of “The Time Machine” with Guy Pierce. (See production shots.) It was also at UCLA that he began to immerse himself specifically in Shakespearean theater. After a focused course of study, he completed a summer program in Stratford-on-Avon in the UK.
Following some post college work in student and independent films, he returned to the east coast to earn his MFA at the Academy for Classical Acting* (ACA) through George Washington University. At ACA, intense physical training continued, with movement class, stage combat and extensive weapons training. William can now (pretend to) kill you with a dizzying array of both medieval and modern weapons, and do so with expert skill, convincing fluidity, and historical accuracy.
ACA’s demanding curriculum also incorporated serious academic study, including LeCoq masque, intensive period history courses, speech and dialect work and detailed analysis of Shakespearean texts, bringing a more nuanced and mature quality to his work. He has remained back east, currently in the Washington, DC area.
The last few years he has branched into film and television. This year he has two major projects premiering. A film version of King Lear (Role of Duke of Cornwall) set to release in late 2015 and a lead role of John D. Rockefeller in Clash of the Titans; a Historical series following the titans of industry in America which is set to air in late July 2015.
He also works with DC Stunt Coalition as a teacher and performer. The DCSC will be performing in SPARTA CON this August in Maryland.
Unique traits: Classically trained Shakespearean Actor and Scholar. Stunt Performer and sword fighter. Fine artist. Cinematography. Dialects and International Pronunciation Alphabet.
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Credits
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Clash of the Titans (
2015 )
Television by Discovery John D. Rockefeller (Lead) -
King Lear (
2015 )
Film by Van Gough Productions Duke of Cornwall -
King Lear (
2010 )
Theater by The Shakespeare Theater Company Curran/Knight -
Titus Andronicus (
2008 )
Theater by Illinois Shakespeare Festival Lucius -
Don Giovanni (
2007 )
Theater by Washington National Opera/Kennedy Center Swordsman -
A Haunting: The Exorcism if Cindy Sauer
Television by Destination America Jason (Lead)
Education
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George Washington University
(2006-2007) -
University of California - Los Angeles
(2006-2007)
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