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Theatre Arts Department: Brenda Hubbard

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Brenda Hubbard, MFA

(Professor & Performance Head)

hubbardb@cwu.edu
(509) 963-1660
McConnell Hall, Room #108

Vita

BRENDA HUBBARD has more than 35 years of experience as a professional actor, director and artistic director, having worked with some of the leading theatres in the nation including The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, The Empty Space Theatre, Tacoma Actors Guild, Salem Repertory and San Jose Repertory Theatre, to name several. A graduate of the Professional Actor Training Program at the University of Washington, she also earned her MFA in directing from the University of Portland after working professionally in regional repertory theatre for 15 years. A member of the Actor's Equity Association since 1978 and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists since 1975, Hubbard has appeared in hundreds of radio and television commercials, as well as several feature films and television shows. In the summer of 2007 Brenda played the role of Lucille Cadeau, in Alan Ayckbourn's House and Garden for Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, a part that required her to learn 45 pages of dialogue in French and without any training or back ground in the language. Summer of 2008 found her directing Bad Dates for Salem Repertory Theatre. In addition to her professional career, Brenda has been an esteemed member of the theatre faculty at Central Washington University for over 17 years, where she serves as the Head of Performance. In March 2009 she appeared as an Equity Guest Artist performing the role of Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie for Columbia Basin College. During the summer and fall of 2009 her work as director was showcased at the IFCC Theatre in Portland, in the new, feminist performance piece that explores the sexual fantasies of women, Inviting Desire, which toured to critical acclaim in Canada appearing at three Fringe Festivals. This production was produced by Dance Naked Productions with creator/actor/producer Eleanor O'Brien and ensemble. Fall of 2008 Hubbard directed Two Gentlemen of Verona and in fall of 2009 she directed Stop Kiss, both for Central Theatre Ensemble. For the 2010-2011 season she will be working for Central Theatre Ensemble once again, directing the robust Restoration Comedy, The Country Wife by William Wycherley, written in 1675.




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Theatre Arts Department
400 E. University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926
963-1760
email: caull@cwu.edu
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