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Stage director - Live Action Designer

Ran Arthur Braun

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Biography Highlights

 
 

Ran Arthur Braun is one of the world's most sought-after stunt coordinators and action designers. He has worked on more than 370 live productions so far with most leading opera houses and festivals.
 
Specializing in large-scale events led him to collaborate world-wide with major production companies, including venues in Asia and the Middle East. He also enjoys a long-standing collaboration with the Bregenz Festival, where he has worked for more than 21 seasons.
Ran Arthur Braun has also made a name for himself as a director and set designer: he won the 2014 Music and Theatre Prize for Best Set Design, he was also voted 2015 Director of the Year for his production of L’enfant et les sortilèges, both in Poland. He has been a member of Dmitri Tcherniakov's production team since 2017.
He teaches stage fighting at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in London, the Centre de Perfeccionament Plácido Domingo in Valencia, the Bolshoi in Moscow, Opera Studio Warsaw , Volksoper Wien and the Opera Studio in Amsterdam. 
 

 
 

Ran also manages Action Actors for film, television and stage projects, with recent work provided for Lucas Films, Disney, Amazon Prime, Play Station and Balich Wonder Studio.
Winner of ‘Opernwelt’ 2022 and 2023 award for production of the year, as a member of the artistic team of Christof Loy and Dmitri Tcherniakov, with whom they also won Best Production in the International Opera Awards in 2024. Known as the concierge of Action! His network provides various services including stunt gear, equipment and special effects, providing services worldwide for some of the industry's biggest shows.
Future work includes working as Artistic Producer for various productions and events in collaboration with ShowTalentNetwork.

 
 

Stage Photos

 

Trailer :The Black Rose - Live Stunt Show

Trailer :The Black Rose - Live Stunt Show

Fight Rehearsal - Bregenz Festival - Ernani

Fight Rehearsal - Bregenz Festival - Ernani

Solar

Klangwolke Festival

Solar

Klangwolke Festival

Klangwolke 2022 - Flyboard

Klangwolke 2022 - Flyboard

Turandot

Oper im Steinbruch

Turandot

Oper im Steinbruch

Riyadh Season Parade

Stunt Coordiantor and Action Designer

Riyadh Season Parade

Stunt Coordiantor and Action Designer

Christian Jost - Egmont

Theater an Der Wien

Christian Jost - Egmont

Theater an Der Wien

Black : White - Abstract Action

Black : White - Abstract Action

Peter Herbert - Trans Maghreb - Interactive Opera

Bregenzer Festspiele

Peter Herbert - Trans Maghreb - Interactive Opera

Bregenzer Festspiele

Donizetti - L'elisir d'amore

Teatr Wielki Poznan

Donizetti - L'elisir d'amore

Teatr Wielki Poznan

 

Reviews & Press

 
 

Gounod - Roméo et Juliette

.....fights requiring from the singers the agility of stuntmen. No doubt, he knows how to do it
 

News Day

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The direction of actors is extremely neat and efficient, the two duels of the third act in particular, are settled with a striking realism
 

- Forum

 These were now powerfully and convincingly choreographed by Ran Arthur Braun: I have never seen them so "lifelike" on an opera stage - bravo! 
 

- Waldemar Kamer , Online Merker

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Wagner - Das Rheingold

...Ran Braun’s compelling choreography and use of space created convincing movement befitting mythological characters.
 

- Opera News

Prokofiev, S. - War and Peace - Action Designer

The war scenes.......are all grippingly staged
 

- Antoine Lévy-Leboyer , Seen and Heard International

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intoxicating movement of the many actors with virtuosity Staged
 

- Michael Vieth , Bachtrack

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.... displays energetic choreographic and cinematographic ability to organize the complex machinery for individual and collective movement of such large groups and so many props.  Very visual scenes, such as the waltz at the New Year's Eve dance or the terrible roar of the huge and angry crowd on stage, whose force is such that one has the impression that it is going to invade the auditorium and spill into the audience, attest to of an accomplished sense of orchestration. 
 

Opera World

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Bellini, V. - Norma - Choreographer

 Perfectos los movimientos escénicos de Ran Arthur Braun y óptima la dirección de actores. 
 

- Magda Ruggeri Marchetti , codalario.com

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Every gesture feels well orchestrated, organised...the melee combat is really well choreographed by Ran Arthur Braun, one of the most sought after action designers in the world
 

- Simona Sagone , Radiocitta fujiko

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Elegant and dynamic choreography of the masses (mostly fighters).
 

- Valentina Anzani , GDM

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Verdi - Ernani - Fight Choreography

.... like a Tarantino blockbuster sends dozens of people into battle at the same time, including precisely orchestrated stunts.
 

- Florian Bock

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Dafür kämpfen sie mit Worten, ihre Gefolgsleute mit Fäusten und Messern. Stuntleute besorgen das akrobatisch choreografiert, bisweilen fast balletthaft. Blut fließt aber nicht – es spritzt. Bevorzugt auf unschuldig weiße Wände. Quentin Tarantino lässt grüßen.e de Beer nimmt Anleihen bei der Ästhetik des zeitgenössischen Kinos und wählt artistische Action, um die Vierecks-Geschichte zu erzählen.
 

- Klaus-Peter Mayr

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Rimsky-Korsakov, N. - Christmas Eve - Live Action Designer

The highlight of the production is the use of aerial acrobatics. Right at the beginning, the witch and devil ride into heaven from the smoking chimney of a roof. The blacksmith's flight through the air to the tsar's court also takes place before the astonished eyes of the audience, and the activities of the pagan spirits and deities also take place at dizzying heights. The performance is worth attending just for the bravura flight choreography of dancers and singers on thin wire ropes (stunt coordination by Ran Arthur Braun).
 

- Michael Demel , deropernfreund.de

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Teatr Wielki Poznan - L'enfant et Sortilege & Rossignol

Ran Arthur Braun was expected to add a pinch of madness in the opera. Like it was done a year ago, when he staged "Cyberiada" by K. Meyer....Now he proved that his imagination has no limit. Always based on physical theater and virtuosity
 

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Birgitta Festival - Haydn - The Creation

The (Festival's) high point was in the hands of the Israeli-born director Ran Arthur Braun. The experience was fantastic! The director's intention was to create a universal view and experience the totality, in which, while listening and looking at the same time, the person feels his own smallness, but also exaltation of existence...Large-scale production with 100 people on stage (Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Risto Joost, the Latvian State Choir, soloists....Stunt Performers.....), focused on illusions and usage of all the senses, with music as the form of expression, together with movement, light - yes! .....It was a complete theatrical sensation.
 

Estonian Press

Haydn’s The Creation is rarely performed as a staged work, but this interpretation by the energetic Israeli director and choreographer Ran Arthur Braun made good use of the scaffolding behind and above the stage to turn the performing space into something resembling the illuminated margins of a Blake manuscript, or the crowded ceiling of a frescoed Baroque chapel. The three soloists were flown from wires, both above the stage and down the length of the auditorium, maintaining their composure (and their intonation) while being winched up and whizzed along on zip-wires. Their costumes included 18th-century coat and breeches, embellished with multicoloured wings, while other performers (drawn from street-players, Parkour experts, breakdancers and fire-jugglers) cavorted at floor level.
 

- Simon Rees , Bachtrack