An actor, director, scholar and fight director, Borden (Assistant Professor of Practice) teaches a variety of performance and academic classes. He earned his B.A. degree from Simon Fraser University and his M.F.A. in Acting and Directing from the University of Missouri - Kansas City. He will soon defend his Ph.D. in Theatre Studies from Florida State University, writing on the theatre of the Restoration and early eighteenth century. He has published and presented on a variety of topics, including Elizabethan theatre, the performance of Shakespeare, historical and modern stage combat, and translating and performing ancient Greek drama. He has previously taught at the University of Missouri - Kansas City, Florida State University, the North Carolina School of the Arts, and Grand Valley State University in Michigan. Recent production credits include playing Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream and the title role in Macbeth for Pigeon Creek Shakespeare, and directing Cymbeline for the Grand Valley Shakespeare Festival. He is also a Certified Teacher of Stage Combat with the Society of American Fight Directors, and has staged fights for numerous plays all around North America and the Caribbean.