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 The Taming of the Shrew at Wilton’s Music Hall in London, Much Ado About Nothing for the Folger Theatre in Washington DC; Dolly West’s Kitchen for RADA; and Every Man In His Humour for BADA. He directed Crimes of the Heart in London, and Love's Labour's Lost and The Importance of Being Earnest for the American Shakespeare Centre in Virginia. He is currently directing Man of Mode for Mountview, devising a site specific show for Wilton’s based on the writings of Henry Mayhew, and in Spring 2011 he is to direct Twelfth Night in Memphis, Tennessee. 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; The Altogether with Martin Freeman, and appeared in Who Gets The Dog? with Kevin Whately for ITV. 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 >>