ABOUT
BRET YOUNT
Visual Storyteller Extraordinaire
Bret Yount is an Equity Register Fight Director, a Master Teacher with the BASSC and a Certified Teacher with the SAFD. He currently teaches at Ithaca College London Centre and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), Bret has been nominated for a 2025 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Fight Choreography for "King Lear"
Recent Theatre/Opera includes: Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night (RSC), Speed (Bush Theatre), Festen (ROH), East is South, The Harmony Test (Hampstead Theatre), Oliver! (Gielgud), King Lear (Wyndhams/The Shed, NYC), Dr Strangelove (Noel Coward), Quiet Songs (Pit, Barbican), 1984 (Theatre Royal, Bath), The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, (Minerva, Chichester) Abigail’s Party (Theatre Royal, Stratford East), Carmen (Glyndebourne), Machinal (Old Vic), The Hungry Body (Donmar Warehouse), The Witches (National Theatre), Cruel Intentions (The Other Palace), The Hunt (St Anns, NYC) My Beautiful Laundrette (Leicester Curve), Sleuth, Closure (Theatre Royal, Windsor) Shooting Hedda Gabler(Rose Theatre, Kingston), Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Crucible (NT and Gielgud), Mates In Chelsea, Hope Has a Happy Meal, Imposter 22 (Royal Court), Village Idiots (Nottingham Playhouse/Stratford East)
"Shadows become art, colors hold secrets, and textures come alive under his lens. At the heart of his craft lies an unwavering obsession with beauty in its most intricate, haunting, and surreal forms. Whether it's a high-fashion editorial or a brand campaign."