New York City Action Actors Academy
featuring Action Scene Combat: Martial Arts & Fight Choreography for Film & Television

NYCAAA and the ASC are the Training Grounds for the Action Actor. No need to dream of having an Action film and television career. Now with the New York City Action Actors Academy and Action Scene Combat these dreams are possible. Founded by Demetrius Angelo, a 25 year veteran of the Martial Arts and Fitness industry and 10 year Independent Film fighter/ fight choreographer, the ASC program was developed to efficiently train actors to perform choreographed fight scenes in 5 – 6 weeks at 4 hours per week.

Action Scene Combat training is for the purpose of preparing actors to have a competitive edge in today’s action oriented film and television industry. Blockbuster films like The Matrix, Bulletproof Monk, Lord of the Rings, Resident Evil 2, Cat Woman, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, as well as Television shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Stargate Atlantis, Alias and the like have all established the birth of a new genre of actors, the Action Actor.
Unless you are Jackie Chan or Jet Li, there will always be a need for Stunt Doubles and Stunt Professionals. In the tradition of the Chinese Opera School and more presently, the likes of Jennifer Garner, Wesley Snipes, Kelly Hu, The Rock, Halle Berry and Zhang ZiYi, the Action Actor is capable of doing limited stunt work and fight choreography, maximizing individual on-screen time and production efficiency.
The ASC (Action Scene Combat) curriculum lays a firm foundation for those interested in being able to perform limited stunt work and fight choreography in today’s film and television industry with a competitive edge. The ASC offers three levels of certification, each building on the prior and advancing the capabilities of the practitioner.
The NYCAAA and ASC offers the following curriculum in 3 levels for the Action Actor:
Martial Arts for Cinema - Fight Choreography - Action Reaction
Action Acrobatics - Action Actors Conditioning - ASC Weapons
(Click below for information on the Instructors and each level of the curriculum)

INSTRUCTORS              LEVEL 1              LEVEL 2              LEVEL 3