Chuck Hudson has directed for major opera companies worldwide, including Cape Town Opera, Minnesota, Cincinnati, Florida Grand, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Austin Lyric, Hawaii, Boston Baroque, Seattle, Wolf Trap, Santa Barbara, and the San Francisco Opera Center. His theatre directing credits include acclaimed productions in New York and at regional institutions such as The Pearl Theatre, The Chester Theatre, Cape May Stage, The Children’s Theatre Festival of Houston, New City Theatre, and Chicago’s Fox Valley Shakespeare Festival. His work has been featured in American Theatre Magazine and Classical Singer Magazine.

A dedicated educator and mentor, Hudson co‑created Seattle Opera’s Young Artist Program, where he directed productions and developed acting and movement curricula for singers. He has taught extensively at universities, conservatories, and professional training programs in the United States and Europe and served for nearly two decades as a Master Teacher with San Francisco Opera’s Merola and Adler Fellows programs. His international work includes engagements in Australia and New Zealand, including the Australian premiere of Goetz’s opera based on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. He also founded a certificate program for opera stage directors at Ithaca College and maintains a private coaching practice in New York City.

Hudson specializes in movement drawing on a background in gymnastics and formal training at the Marcel Marceau International School of Mimedrama in Paris. One of only three Americans to receive Marceau’s diploma, he is the only American appointed to teach at the school and performed with Marceau on his 1991 European tour. He is a former Artistic Director of Seattle’s Immediate Theatre and has performed extensively with the Seattle Shakespeare Festival.