Eugene Solfanelli SAFD CT
SAG-AFTRA
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SAFD Certified Teacher
MFA Acting Brooklyn College
BA Education St. Joseph's College
Over 25 years Martial Arts Teacher and Practitioner
Certified Personal Trainer-ISSA, NESTA
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Fight Director/Choreographer
Stunt Performer/Coordinator
Actor/Combatant/Martial Artist
Personal Trainer
Writer/Director
Certified in Theatrical/Film Firearms Safety
Professional Bio
The first show Eugene Fight Directed was in 2001. The majority of his fight directing credits can be found off Broadway and on the regional theater stage, but he has presented stunt and fight work on TV (CBS, Spike, A&E) and has been the Stunt Coordinator on a few TV pilots and Feature Films that are in pre-production. He has also booked acting/combatancy/fight directing work with SONY Entertainment. He has fight directed many shows at Brooklyn College and is brought in as a consultant whenever one of his students is in a department production containing any physical, fight or stunt work. He has also been the fight director and choreographer for shows at other colleges and CUNY schools.
In June 2015 Eugene booked the fantasy feature film "Tower of Silence". He was the Stunt Double for Mark Evans (Lake Placid 3) as well as a Utility Fighter and Stunt Performer as a member of the BlackGuard. The film has a scheduled release date for 2016.
In December 2015 Eugene booked role of Mohawk and will be Co-Starring on the FOX TV series Gotham. The episode aired on March 14th, 2016.
In October of 2017 Eugene worked once again as a stuntman on the set of Gotham, getting shot and killed as one of Falcone's thugs.
In October 2016 Eugene Stunt Coordinated and guest starred as Maxwell in the made for TV movie Wholly Broken.
Eugene has been a professional fight director, fight choreographer, stage combatant and stuntman, since 2001. The majority of his credits have been found off Broadway and on the regional theater stage but he has also been seen in TV commercials and on TV series.
Eugene has been a professional actor since 2001.
For further details see CV or Production Experience below
Acting Resume available upon request
Production Experience:
Professional:
Big Dogs
Choice Studio Group Productions
LA's Bouncer
Stunt Coordinator: Corey Pierno
Wholly Broken
Choice Studio Group Productions
Stunt Coordinator/Maxwell
Gotham Episode 411 "Queen Takes Night"
FOX TV Productions
Falcone Thug
Stunt Coordinator: Norman Douglas
Gotham Episode 214 "This Ball of Mud and Meanness"
FOX TV Productions
Mohawk (Co-Starring Role)
Director: John Behring
Stunt Coordinator: Norman Douglas
2nd Unit AD: Rachel Lovine
Tower of Silence (feature to be released in 2017)
Palmarium, LLC
Stunt Double for Mark Evans (Groth)
Utility Stunts and Fights:BlackGuard
Stunt Coordinator: Joe Travers
2nd Unit A.D. Corey Pierno
CBS Morning Show-The Last Samurai promo
CBS Television
Featured Combatant during the weather segment
Stunt Coordinator: Casey Fatchett
Memoirs of Father Driscal (TV Pilot)
Shoestring Productions
Stunt Coor./Combatant
Hunter vs. Yeti (video game promo)
Sony Entertainment
Stunt Coordinator./Dr. Wilson
Dreams of the Youth (feature film in pre-production)
Mind the Art Entertainment
Stunt Coor./Combatant/Stuntman
Broken Crayons (feature short)
Cinematica Poetica
Fight Trainer/Stunt Coor.
In the Movie: The Karate Kid
A&E Television
Combatant
Legacies by Meron Langsner
BC One Act Festival
Fight Director/Combatant
Beauty and the Beast (GA)
CCHS
Stunt Coor./Combatant
The Unlikely Adventures of Race McCloud Private Eye*
Chernuchin Theater (ATA)
Fight Director/Combatant
The Pell
Pulse Ensemble Theater
Combatant
Man of La Mancha
Spotlight Players
Fight Director/Combatant
Edith Stein (Both NY and Boston Productions)*
Legorian Players
Fight Director/Combatant
Four and Twenty
Gi60: International Play Festival
Fight Director/Choreographer
Moon Over Buffalo
Spotlight Players
Fight Director
The Attack of the Phantom Filmmaker's New Empire (Award-winning Star Wars Fan Film)
San Diego Comic Con ('04)
Fight Choreographer/Combatant
*Equity Showcase
College/University Fight Direction:
Brooklyn College BFA Acting Program Fight Director:
Rough Magic
Dir. Rose Bonczek
Mauritius
Dir. Jolie Tong
As Bees in Honey Drown
Dir. Jolie Tong
Comedy of Errors
Dir. Ray Verta
York College BFA Acting Program Fight Director:
She Kills Monsters
Dir. Jessica Pecharsky
St. Joseph's College BA Acting Program Fight Director:
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Dir. Tom Hoefner
As You Like It
Dir. Tom Hoefner
The Crucible
Dir. Tom Hoefner
Fools
Dir. Tom Hoefner