Introduction

Nick Hutchison is a director, actor, and lecturer. A resident of London, his work covers television, film, theatre, voice-over and radio, working for the BBC, ITV, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, and Shakespeare's Globe.

Nick has recently directed Twelfth Night at the McCoy Theater in Memphis Tennessee, ( nominated for 9 Ostrander Awards); Wilton's Vintage Christmas at Wilton's Music Hall in London (Time Out 4*); On The Shore of the Wide World for Mountview Academy and Cymbeline and Love's Labour's Lost for RADA. He has directed The Taming of the Shrew at Wilton's, Much Ado About Nothing for the Folger Theatre in Washington DC, Crimes of the Heart in London, and Love's Labour's Lost and The Importance of Being Earnest for the American Shakespeare Center in Virginia. He has directed numerous shows for RADA and Mountview, and will return to Memphis in 2013 to direct As You Like It. More directing >>

As an actor he played John in the movie About A Boy and Barry in Golden Years with Ricky Gervais on Channel 4; Pinworth in the movie Restoration and the lead in Little Big Mouth for ITV. He has recently appeared in Miss Potter with Renee Zellwegger, Who Gets the Dog? with Kevin Whately for ITV, and in Vent on Radio 4. More acting >>

He was for six years an assessor for the National Theatre’s Connections Programme; he is a judge of the ESU’s Shakespeare on the Platform competition, he is on RADA and Mountview’s audition panels, and directs for the RADA Shakespeare Summer Course. He is a Chairman of the Accreditation Panel of the NCDT, visiting and assessing Drama Schools throughout the UK.

Nick lectures on Shakespeare for Shakespeare's Globe in London; for the University of Cambridge Summer School; and for colleges and universities from Germany to Texas, from Oxford to Los Angeles. More lectures >>