RICK SORDELET, Co-founder

Jim Vagias (Producing Artistic Director, American Theater Group) has been involved in the entertainment industry since 1983.  A former attorney, Vagias founded American Theater Group in 2012 with industry professionals Joe Mancuso and Rick…

Rick Sordelet is a Fight Directors and co-creator with his son of Sordelet INC, an exciting combat company bringing over thirty years of action movement experience for television, film and stage.  www.sordeletinc.com. Seventy+ Broadway productions include Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Waiting for Godot/ No Man's Land and Tina. His credits also include more than 60 first-class productions on five continents in hundreds of cities around the world, including Ben Hur Live both in Rome and the European Tour. ( www.benhurlive.com )  

Rick has been fight director at our country’s best regional theaters across the U.S. for shows ranging from Sam Shepard to William Shakespeare.  He has had dozens National Tours running across the United States and North America.  He is also a stunt coordinator for television and film with over 1000 episodes of daytime television and numerous feature films including RESPECT the Aretha Franklin Story. 

Rick has been teaching stage combat for Yale School of Drama for twenty-two years, as well as for the famous William Esper Studio in NYC. Rick, with his partner David Blixt, runs an electronic publishing company called Sordelet INK.

Also a writer, Rick has penned numbers screenplays purchased by Legendary Films, Bad Hat Harry Productions and Fox Studios.  His plays have been produced in NYC, NJ and with STREAM ON a new streaming platform devoted to new works for the staged shown on you devices.