Biography

Edgar Landa is a faculty member at the USC School of Dramatic Arts and the School’s resident fight/violence instructor and fight director. He is a long-standing member of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., where he serves on the faculty as a fight and text instructor and has worked extensively in its nationally recognized education programs.

Landa creates violence and mayhem for theatres small and big including the Ahmanson, Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre, South Coast Repertory, San Diego Rep, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Getty Villa, Cornerstone Theatre, The Theatre @ Boston Court, Shakespeare & Company, Tennessee Shakespeare Company and many others. Additionally, he is an actor and director and can often be found working within the vibrant Los Angeles intimate theatre community and beyond.

Landa is a proud SDC, SAG and AEA member (and supporter of the L.A. intimate theatre community). He is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab & the Directors Lab West and is a graduate of the USC School of Dramatic Arts.