Director, Dramatic Workshop for Singers
Based in New York City, Chuck Hudson has directed opera productions with major international companies, including Minnesota Opera, Cape Town Opera (South Africa), Florida Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, San Francisco Opera Center, Wolf Trap Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Sacramento Opera, Opera Cleveland, Opera Santa Barbara, Caramoor Opera, Berkshire Opera, Piedmont Opera, Connecticut Opera, and Shreveport Opera. He also has directed award-winning theatre productions in New York and elsewhere, including the Children's Theatre Festival of Houston and Chicago's Fox Valley Shakespeare Festival.
In addition to directing, Mr. Hudson continues to focus on his work with young professional artists. He is a co-creator of Seattle Opera's Young Artist Program, a national post-conservatory-level training program, where he directed productions and created and instructed specialized classes on acting and movement for singers. Formerly a professor at the University of Houston School of Theatre and at Cornish College of the Arts, he is an adjunct faculty artist at North Carolina School of the Arts Theatre Department and Fletcher Opera Institute. Mr. Hudson also leads masterclasses and private coaching sessions at various professional artist training programs for singers and actors, and has directed opera productions at several universities and conservatories. Last year he was a guest professor of advanced acting at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
For seven years Mr. Hudson was artistic director of Seattle's Immediate Theatre, a company committed to the creation of visually exciting dramatic works. His specialty in movement stems from his background in gymnastics. One of just three Americans to have received a diploma from the Marcel Marceau International School of Mimedrama in Paris, he is the only American to teach at Marceau's School. Mr. Hudson performed with Marceau on his 1991 European Tour and in Klaus Kinski's film Paganini. He also studied at the Paris School for Theatrical Fencing and was awarded an honorary diploma from the French Academy of Arms.
Mr. Hudson's acting credits include Orsino in Twelfth Night, Brutus in Julius Caesar, and Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew with the Seattle Shakespeare Festival, and Caliban in The Tempest with Immediate Theatre. He has also served as movement and combat director at the Alley Theatre, Houston Ballet, Intiman Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle Opera, Group Theatre, and Seattle Shakespeare Festival.