Stage Director, Master Teacher
There is much talk at the Met these days about the importance of recruiting “singing actors” instead of “park and bark” performers. Vivien Schweitzer, New York Times: September 24, 2009
My master classes are designed to develop the techiques of those who intend to make their living from a career in the Performing Arts. I believe in aiding a performer not just to be accidentally or sproradically creative, but to be Successfully Creative: structuring independence by developing the skills that allow artists no longer to need constant supervision and direction. My particular focus is to explore performance techniques from a unified physical, dramatic, and vocal standpoint. This is a true marriage of Voice, Acting, and Movement Techniques, creating singing as a consequence of movement, movement that is nourished by vocal techniques, and creating the “Behavioral Life” of a character in action.
Acting is a whole area that’s been underemphasized in voice training…Their stage Guru? Chuck Hudson [whose] classes have also given [the singers] a safe place in which to make mistakes, learn through them, and to be comfortable… on stage. Holly Johnson, Seattle Opera’s Young Artist Program in Sforzando Magazine
…The American theatre abounds in skillful movement teachers, fight choreographers, specialists in mime and modern dance and classical commedia, as it does in stage directors full of novel interpretive ideas. But not one in a hundred possesses, as does Hudson, the ability to infuse movement with intelligence, to make ideas flesh. Roger Downey, Seattle Weekly