Nick Hutchison is a theatre director, lecturer, educator and actor. He is on the Higher Education faculty at Shakespeare’s Globe, an Associate Tutor at RADA and Drama Fellow and Course Leader at LAMDA.
Since 2022 he has delivered a seminar at the National Symposium for Classical Education in Phoenix, Arizona, (for the last two years collaborating with Sir Jonathan Bate on a seminar on Textual Variations in Shakespeare), and he has lead workshops on Marlowe, Welles and Shakespeare’s Sonnets for Rhodes College, Memphis. He has recently directed The Provoked Wife by John Vanbrugh for LAMDA, and will again be Associate Director for the RADA 8-week Acting Shakespeare course, which he has co-lead for over a decade.
Nick lectures and writes on original Shakespearean staging practice for the Globe Theatre, and for theatres and universities worldwide; he had a paper published in the 2014 Shakespeare Bulletin on character in Twelfth Night, a chapter in Routledge’s 2019 How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, and a chapter in their 2020 publication: Why The Theatre?
He is currently developing a film script of Twelfth Night with the director Mike Hoffman; working on a book about Shakespeare for a general readership; and developing a TV proposal about Shakespeare with Libertayo Productions in Brooklyn. Nick is also on the RADA audition panel, and has acted as an advisor to LAMDA for their Shakespeare Examinations.
Nick Hutchison is a theatre director, lecturer, educator and actor. He is on the Higher Education faculty at Shakespeare’s Globe, an Associate Tutor at RADA and Drama Fellow and Course Leader at LAMDA.
Since 2022 he has delivered a seminar at the National Symposium for Classical Education in Phoenix, Arizona, (for the last two years collaborating with Sir Jonathan Bate on a seminar on Textual Variations in Shakespeare), and he has lead workshops on Marlowe, Welles and Shakespeare’s Sonnets for Rhodes College, Memphis. He has recently directed The Provoked Wife by John Vanbrugh for LAMDA, and will again be Associate Director for the RADA 8-week Acting Shakespeare course, which he has co-lead for over a decade.
Nick lectures and writes on original Shakespearean staging practice for the Globe Theatre, and for theatres and universities worldwide; he had a paper published in the 2014 Shakespeare Bulletin on character in Twelfth Night, a chapter in Routledge’s 2019 How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, and a chapter in their 2020 publication: Why The Theatre?
He is currently developing a film script of Twelfth Night with the director Mike Hoffman; working on a book about Shakespeare for a general readership; and developing a TV proposal about Shakespeare with Libertayo Productions in Brooklyn. Nick is also on the RADA audition panel, and has acted as an advisor to LAMDA for their Shakespeare Examinations.
Nick lectures internationally on Shakespeare and Early Modern Theatre practise, including giving the Kennedy Shakespeare Lecture at University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, seminars at the National Symposium for Classical Education in Phoenix, Arizona, (for the last two years in tandem with Sir Jonathan Bate on Textual Variations in Shakespeare), and lectures at the University of Dallas, Rhodes College Memphis, Mary Baldwin University in Virginia, for the British Studies at Oxford and the Virginia Project at Oxford programmes, and for the Patterson School of Accountancy at Ole Miss on the economics of Shakespeare. In the UK he lectures regularly for Education in Action for their English A-Level and GCSE courses in London and Warwick.
Nick’s acting work covers television, film, theatre and radio. He played John in About A Boy, and, among other films was in Miss Potter, 102 Dalmatians, Fierce Creatures, The Bounty and Restoration. On TV he appeared in The Last Place on Earth; A Touch Of Frost; Lady Chatterley's Lover; The Cinder Path; Harry; Into The Fire; Jupiter Moon; The Perfect Match; Little Big Mouth; and Fortysomething. In the theatre Nick has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, in London’s West End and at Shakespeare’s Globe, as well as at many regional UK theatres. On radio he was in two series of the award-winning Vent, and numerous episodes of Something Understood. He is also an experienced voice-over artist.
Nick devised and directed A Crag Path Christmas, a site-specific celebration at the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall in 2019 with a West End star cast and guest appearances from Richard Curtis, Tim McInnerny and Griff Rhys Jones.
He devised and directed Now I am Alone for the Tmu-na Theatre as part of the Tel Aviv Shakespeare Festival, which came to the Bread and Roses Theatre in London; he devised and directed Noël Coward's Christmas Spirits at the St James' Theatre studio for a critically acclaimed sell out run, (5*, Libby Purves Theatre Cat, 4* What’s On Stage); and a charity gala performance of Never Such Innocence at Australia House: an evening of poetry, prose and music from WWI with John Julius Norwich and Tim McInnerny in the cast. He directed As You Like It and Twelfth Night at the McCoy Theater in Memphis Tennessee, (both nominated for 9 Ostrander Awards); Wilton's Vintage Christmas at Wilton's Music Hall in London (Time Out 4*); The Taming of the Shrew at Wilton’s Music Hall, Much Ado About Nothing for the Folger Theatre in Washington DC, Pinter’s Short Measures (Cheltenham Everyman), Crimes of the Heart in London, and Love's Labour's Lost, Much Ado About Nothing and The Importance of Being Earnest for the American Shakespeare Center in Virginia.
Nick directed a rehearsed reading of Massinger’s The Renegado at the new Attenborough Theatre in Sussex University for the Globe’s Read Not Dead on tour; Beaumont and Fletcher’s The Coxcomb at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre, Massinger’s The Little French Lawyer at Gray’s Inn Hall, and Daniel’s The Queen’s Arcadia at Christ Church Great Hall.
For Drama Schools he has directed As You Like It, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Winter's Tale and All's Well That Ends Well for the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s residency at the Globe (on which he was Course Leader); Dolly West’s Kitchen, The Wonderful World of Dissocia, Playhouse Creatures, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, The Comedy of Errors, Our Country’s Good, As You Like It, Macbeth, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Measure for Measure, Henry VIII, Pericles, Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Merry Wives of Windsor for RADA, and for Case Western Reserve University’s residence at RADA he directed Brecht’s “lehrstucke" :The Measures Taken, Lindbergh's Flight, The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent and The Trial of Lucullus. For LAMDA Nick has directed Julius Caesar, Troilus & Cressida, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost, As You Like It, John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s A Whore, Susanna Centilivre’s The Bassett Table, Hannah Cowley’s The Belle’s Stratagem and Aphra Behn’s The Lucky Chance.
Nick’s directing work for other drama schools includes The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Recruiting Officer, The Man of Mode, On the Shore of the Wide World, Lady Windemere’s Fan and The Art of Success (Mountview Academy); and Every Man in His Humour, Our Country’s Good, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew and Pericles (BADA).
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