JOHN  HUDSON   email:  [email protected]   Artistic  director  and  dramaturg,  The  Dark  Lady  Players  

Education   • M.A.  Shakespeare  and  Theatre,  The  Shakespeare  Institute,  University  of   Birmingham  (with  Merit).   • M.Sc.  Management,  London  School  of  Economics  and  Political  Science.   • B.A.  Sociology,  University  of  Exeter,  (First  Class  Honors)  summa  cum  laude.       Presentations  and  Workshops   (2015)  Workshop  on  Allegorical  Shakespeare  (planned)   (2014)  New  School  for  Social  Research,  talks  on  Shakespeare  and  Lanier   (2012)  Jewish  Community  Center,  Shakespeare  and  the  Roman  Jewish  War.   (2012)  West  Park  Church,  Shakespeare’s  Annunciations  to  the  Virgin  Mary   (2011)  The  Lotos  Club  Literary  Society,  New  York     (2010)  CUNY/  City  College,  talk  on  Hamlet’s  Apocalypse   (2010)  Pace  University,  The  Left  Forum,  talk  on  Shakespeare   (2009)  Eastern  Connecticut  State  University,  University  Lecture  on  ‘Who  Wrote   Shakespeare?’  and  departmental  workshop  on  the  meaning  of  As  You  Like  It.   (2009)  Kennedy  Center  American  College  Theater  Festival,  Region  1,  invited   presentations  on  Shakespeare.   (2009)  Jewish  Community  Center,  Shakespeare  and  Theater  Workshop.   (2008)  ManhattanTheaterSource,  Shakespeare  Symposium.   (2008)  Lecture  at  Shakespeare  Oxford  Society.   (2008)  SUNY/  Stony  Brook  University,  Shakespeare  Workshop.   (2008)  New  York  University,  Pedagogy  Conference,  Shakespeare  Presentation   (2007)  The  Shakespeare  Authorship  Trust,  London,  Shakespeare  Workshop.   (2007)  The  Smithsonian,  Washington  Shakespeare  Festival,  Talk  and  staged   demonstration  on  A  Midsummer  Night’s  Dream.     Plays/Productions/Adaptations   (2014)  Writing  Othello  Dir.  Jenny  Greeman,  New  Perspectives  Theater   (2012)  Exploding  the  Western  Canon,  Figment  Festival,  June.  Dir  Melissa  Annis   (2012)  Midsummer  Madness  Dir.  Jenny  Greeman,  Central  Park   (2011)  Shakespeare’s  Gospel  Parodies  dir.  Jenny  Greeman  review  at   http://www.nytheatre.com/showpage.aspx?s=shak13272   (2010)  Hamlet’s  Apocalypse,  ManhattanTheatreSource  dir.  Jenny  Greeman   work  sample  at  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDO6rXcemas   (2009)  Festival  of  Short  Plays  on  Amelia  Bassano  Lanier   (2009)  Shakespeare’s  Three  Virgin  Marys  (Ophelia,  Desdemona  and  Juliet),   ManhattanTheaterSource    dir.  Jenny  Greeman.   (2009)  John  Hudson  and  Jenny  Greeman  The  Shakespeare  Show,  Radio  play.   (2008)  As  You  Like  It;  the  Big  Flush,  Midtown  International  Theater  Festival,  dir.  Stephen   Wisker,  Asst.  director  Jenny  Greeman.   1

 (2007)  A  Midsummer  Night’s  Dream;  A  Comic  Jewish  Satire,  Abingdon  Theater,  New   York,  dir.  Mahayana  Landowne,  asst.  director  Jenny  Greeman.   (2006)  The  Fall  From  Paradise,  an  adaptation  of  the  York  Mystery  plays,  Recycle  Festival,   dir.  Melody  Brooks  and  performed  by  New  Perspectives  Theater.     Publications   (2015)  Encyclopedia  entry  on  Lanier  for  Project  Continua  (in  press)   (2014)  Shakespeare’s  Dark  Lady  (Amberley  Publishing,  Stroud,  UK)   (2011)  ‘A  Midsummer  Night’s  Dream;  A  Religious  Allegory’  (5000  word  article  in   University  of  Birmingham  Journal  of  Literature  and  Language).   (2009)  John  Hudson  ‘Amelia  Bassano  Lanier;  A  New  Paradigm’,    (5000  word  article  in  a   special  issue  on  the  top  authorship  candidates),  The  Oxfordian.   (2009)  John  Hudson  ’A  Meta-­‐Theatrical  Staging  in  New  York  City;  Shakespeare’s  Virgin   Mary  Allegories’  University  of  Birmingham  Journal  of  Literature  and  Language.     (2009)  John  Hudson  ‘The  End  of  High  Concept  Shakespeare’,  (Clyde  Fitch  Report  (CFR)   invited  column).   (2009)  John  Hudson  ’Can  Innovation  Remake  the  Theater  industry?’  (CFR).    (2009)  John  Hudson  ’Shakespeare’s  Spoofs  of  the  Virgin  Mary’  (CFR).   (2009)  John  Hudson  ’Bottom’s  Dream  Becomes  Arden’s  Nightmare’(CFR).   (2009)  John  Hudson  ‘New  York’s  Shakespeare  Problem’  (CFR).   (2009)  John  Hudson  ‘Goats  and  Monkeys;  Why  did  Shakespeare  visit  Bassano?’  (CFR).   (2007)  John  Hudson  ‘Shakespeare’s  Plays  were  written  by  a  Jewish  woman;  Here's  eight   kinds  of  proof  Amelia  Bassano  was  the  real  Bard’  Jewcy.com     (2006)  John  Hudson,  Review  of  Queen’s  Company  production  of  The  Taming  of  the   Shrew,  SHAKESPEARE,  volume  2,  no.  2,  (2006)  222-­‐3.     Interviews/Reviews   (2014)  Review  of  Shakespeare’s  Dark  Lady,  Kirkus  Reviews.   (2010)  Michael  Posner  ‘Unmasking  Shakespeare’  Reform  Judaism  Magazine,  cover  story.   (2010)  Michael  Posner  ‘Was  Shakespeare  a  Woman?’  Globe  and  Mail.   (2010)  Stephanie  H.  Hughes  ‘The  Big  Six  Candidates’  Shakespeare  Oxford  Newsletter.   (2009)  Interview  ‘Does  the  Elizabethan  Understanding  of  the  Actor  as  Puppet  Unlock  the   Meaning  of  Shakespeare’s  Plays?”  NYPuppets.org   (2009)  News  program  on  Shakespeare’s  Three  Marys,  the  Jewish  Channel   (2008)  The  Dark  Lady  Discovery  pilot  15  minute    TV  Documentary  video  by  Mitchell  Riggs   (2008)  Michael  Posner  ‘Rethinking  Shakespeare’  The  Queen’s  Quarterly,  cover  story.   (2008)  Daniela  Amini  ‘Kosher  Bard:  Could  Shakespeare’s  plays  have  been  written  by  the   ‘Dark  Lady,’  a  Jewish  woman  of  Venetian-­‐Moroccan  ancestry?  John  Hudson  thinks  so’   New  Jersey  Jewish  News,  cover  story.   (2008)  Rebecca  Honig  Friedman  ‘Was  The  Bard  A  Beard?  A  Scholar  Argues  That   Shakespeare  Was  a  Jewish  Woman’,  The  Jewish  Daily  Forward.   (2007)  M.  George  Stevenson  ‘Dark  Lady  Players'  Midsummer’.    New  York  Theatrewire.         2