Based in New York City, Chuck has directed opera productions at 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 Santa Barbara, Caramoor Opera, Berkshire Opera, Piedmont Opera, Connecticut Opera, and Shreveport Opera among others. He has directed award winning theatre productions * in New York and regionally, including The Pearl Theatre, Chester Theater, The Children’s Theatre Festival of Houston, New City Theatre, and Chicago's Fox Valley Shakespeare Festival.
In addition to directing, Chuck 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 as well as created and instructed specialized classes on Acting and Movement for singers. He was a professor at the University of Houston School of Theatre, at Cornish College of the Arts and is an annual Adjunct Faculty Artist at North Carolina School of the Arts Theatre Department and Fletcher Opera Institute. Chuck also uses his enormous experience as a performer, director, and coach in his many Master Classes and private coachings at various Professional Artist Training Programs for singers and actors, and he has directed productions at San Francisco Opera's Merola Program, CCM Opera Theatre, AVA Opera Theater, BU Opera Institute, USC-Thornton Opera, and Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater. In 2008, Chuck was a guest professor of Advanced Acting at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and will be a Guest Stage Director at Indiana University Opera Theatre in 2009.
For 7 years Chuck was Artistic Director of Seattle's The Immediate Theatre: a physically based company committed to the creation of visually exciting dramatic works. Chuck’s specialty in movement 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.
Acting roles 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 his own Immediate Theatre. He has also served as Movement & Combat Director at the Alley Theatre, Houston Ballet, Intiman Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle Opera, Group Theatre, and Seattle Shakespeare Festival.
Upcoming productions in 2008 include directing a new production of Hansel and Gretel at Opera Cleveland. In 2009 he will direct a new production of Cendrillon at IU Opera Theatre, and will revive his La Bohème at Sacramento Opera.
* Chuck Hudson's 2002 off-Broadway production of SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER received one of the Joe A. Callaway Awards from The Actors Equity Association.
Management:
Robert Lombardo & Associates