Affair of Honour began in 2015 with Nathania Bernabe and Jackie T. Hanlin creating staged fights to perform for events and fundraisers throughout the city of Vancouver. Now both certified fight instructors with Fight Directors Canada. They have worked as Fight Directors for Theatre companies across Canada including Pi Theatre, Urban Ink, Touchstone Theatre, Ruby Slippers,Caravan Farm Theatre, Bishop’s University, Studio 58, University of British Columbia, Capilano University, University of the Fraser Valley, Instant Theatre, Shuswap Theatre Society and multiple independent films while also holding their own workshops and private coaching sessions. 

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       They debuted their first theatre production of Qui Nugyen’s Soul Samurai, at the Vancouver Fringe Festival Dramatic work series in 2017, and again at The Nest (formerly Studio 1398) in 2018, the remount received a Jessie Nomination for fight and movement design. They developed and produced an improvised fight episodic inspired by Romeo and Juliet titled House of Arms in 2018. That same year, Heroine by Karen Bassett toured from Vancouver to the Edmonton International Fringe Festival. August 2019 saw the company's first original written work Playthings, that premiered using Pacific Theatre as a venue before touring to the Edmonton Fringe Festival. Playthings was slated for the 2020 rEvolver Festival which was unfortunately cancelled due to COVID-19. With Playthings, Affair of Honour received their first artist in residency with Presentation House Theatre (PHT). Playthings was a part of PHT's 2020/21 Season and mounted in April 2021 and is now being curated for touring for Theatre for Young Audiences. In November 2020, they worked with writer, director and producer Fairlith Harvey to workshop her original piece Kill the Ripper, and performed and fight directed in its world premiere in June 2022. They worked with writer Roselyn Kelada-Sedra in April 2022 on a new play called Sister Warriors, which had a Developmental Residency with Suitcase in Point Theatre Company in St. Catherines, ON.

 

In 2022, they took a big leap forward working with Jovanni Sy, producing, acting in and designing fight choreography for his original script and Kung fu epic, The Five Vengeances at The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby, BC. In early 2023 they travelled to Bishop's University in Lennoxville, QC where they were the guest instructors and guest directors of the senior production of She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen. In April 2023, they partnered with DynamO Théâtre in Montreal, Quebec to hold a skill exchange of acrobatic research for stage combat, they are invited back with DynamO in April 2026 to share more stage combat.

 

August of 2023 saw their return to the Edmonton Fringe festival where they wrote and performed a new work called Multi-Vs. Multi-Vs is the second original work by founders Nathania and Jackie that was performed again for the 2024 rEvolver Festival with Up In The Air Theatre. It also toured to Fundy and Halifax Fringe in the summer of 2025. In the fall of 2025, Nathania and Jackie developed their own adaptation of The Musketeers and directed the production at Bishop’s University in November. They are excited to develop it further for it’s Affair of Honour world premiere. In the meantime, Multi - Vs is hitting the road again at to play at Bishop’s University, the Halifax 2026 Drama Fest and presented by the Vancouver Fringe at the Waterfront Theatre in June 2026. Nathania and Jackie are currently preparing for their 10 year anniversary show, V - City, slated to make its world premiere in November 2027.

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