Robert "Tink" Tuftee

Tink has been involved in stage combat since 1980. In 1987 he became a certified Actor/Combatant in the SAFD and in 1997 achieved the rank of SAFD Fight Director.

He has performed and/or choreographed fights - swordplay, gunplay and hand-to-hand combat from a variety of historical periods - in professional and academic venues that include the Metropolitan Opera, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Circle Rep Lab, National Black Theatre Co., The LAB Theatre Co., Tiny Mythic Theatre Co, The Women's Project, Harlem School of the Arts, New York Renaissance Festival, La Mama, Pulse Ensemble (all in NY), the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat Summer Workshop (London), the University of Iowa and Riverside Theatre (IA), Downstage Theatre Co. (CT) and New American Theatre (IL).

He also choreographs for film, including the award-winning short, Alkali, Iowa, as well as the independent features Pizza, which recently premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and Light and the Sufferer.