Jen Pan

In 2025, Jen is teaching:
Swiss Army Staff (Open - Staff)
Wing Chun Kung Fu: Deny the Defense (Intermediate - Unarmed)
Learning Choreo Faster (Open - Single Sword)
Unarmed Foundations (Beginner - Unarmed)
Fencing Tactical Wheel (Open - Two-handed Sword)
Threats and Opportunities (Intermediate - Single Sword)

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Jen (she/they) is a fight and intimacy director, movement teaching artist, actor, stunt performer, and occasional creative based in metro-Detroit, MI. Their work has been recently featured on the stages of Detroit Public Theatre, Obsidian Theatre Festival, University of Michigan SMTD, Oakland University, Eastern Michigan University, and Croswell Opera House.

They’re a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD), co-founder and lead instructor of Theatrica Gladiatoria (academy for stage and film combat in Ypsilanti, MI - www.fightglad.com), and co-coordinator of the annual Mitten Mayhem Stage Combat Workshop in October (www.mittenmayhem.com).

​Jen is passionate about lifelong learning, trauma-informed pedagogy, intimacy and consent work, and greater BIPOC and LGBTQ+ representation in the arts.