Chuck Hudson
The Barber of Seville (2025) is Chuck’s fifth production at Minnesota Opera, and he has directed productions at major international companies including Cape Town Opera, Cincinnati, Florida Grand, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Austin Lyric, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Boston Baroque, Seattle Opera, Wolf Trap, Santa Barbara, and San Francisco Opera Center among others. He has directed award winning theatre productions in New York and regionally, including The Pearl Theatre, The Chester Theater, Cape May Stage, The Children’s Theatre Festival of Houston, New City Theatre, and Chicago’s Fox Valley Shakespeare Festival. Chuck’s work as a director was mentioned in the January 2011 Edition of American Theatre Magazine and the October 2018 Edition of Classical Singer Magazine.
Chuck also enjoys mentoring young professional artists. He was a co-creator of Seattle Opera’s Young Artist Program where he directed productions as well as created and instructed specialized classes on Acting and Movement skills for singers. He has directed productions at many universities, conservatories, and professional artist training programs in the USA and Europe and has been an annual Master Teacher at San Francisco Opera’s Merola and Adler Fellows programs for almost two decades. Chuck travels often to Australia to work with singers in Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth and directed the Australian Premiere of the German Opera by Goetz based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. The Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation also invited Chuck to work with their singers for several seasons in New Zealand. Chuck created a Certificate Training Program for Opera Stage Directors at Ithaca College and is in great demand as a private audition coach in New York City, coaching both opera and musical theater performers.
Chuck’s specialty in movement and Commedia dell’Arte comes from a background in gymnastics as well as being one of three Americans to have received a diploma from the Marcel Marceau International School of Mimedrama in Paris. He is the only American to be appointed to teach at Marceau’s School, and he performed with Marceau on his 1991 European Tour and in Klaus Kinski’s film Paganini. Chuck also studied at the Paris School for Theatrical Fencing and was awarded an Honorary Diploma from the French Academy of Arms and holds an Advanced Training Certificate in Applied Mythology from Pacifica Graduate Institute’s Extension and International Studies Program.
Chuck was Artistic Director of The Immediate Theatre in Seattle: a physically based company committed to the creation of visually exciting dramatic works. Acting roles include Orsino in Twelfth Night, Brutus in Julius Caesar, and Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew with the Seattle Shakespeare Festival, and Caliban in The Tempest with his own Immediate Theatre.
