Candace Hudert

Projects I'm Dreaming On

AKA productions I could direct tomorrow

NEW WORKS by YOU????

I adore developing new works and exploring the worlds that contemporary playwrights are making! I want comedies. I want mess. I want politics. I want righteous gay fury and comforting adventures and fantastical situations beyond our current comprehension. I want to collaborate with YOU on what you're working on right this very moment!!!But, if I had to pick works that have already been written...

Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine

I am a geek for musicals forever and always, and Into the Woods is near and dear to my heart. Just in the first song, we learn so much about how these messy people relate to their parents. The entire rest of the show is them learning things they never knew about their parental figures, then figuring out how they can (or no longer can) have relationships with those guardians. Plus, the show is funny as all get out.

Pride and Prejudice by Kate Hamill

In Lizzie and Darcy's world, marriage is a game, but what if it was a sports game. This would be a very "sporty", poppy, and athletic production; less focused on gender and hoity-toity-ness and more concerned with the competition of our suitors.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

I have at least two versions of this show living in my head.
My personal favorite is reading this as a text where the two leads are desperately out of place and constantly told who and what they are, despite their confusion at these outside assertions. I read this as a trans narrative. When confronted with the presence of their own world not adding up, they have to break out of it, or else they'll keep repeating and repeating and repeating... They must break out.And my extra weird version is a procedurally generated version of the show, really putting the RNG in RnG.

Girls by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I think about this play every day. I was deeply, deeply touched by this show. Working on any of Jacobs-Jenkins' plays would be a delight.

My work is clown and queer; it seeks to challenge and stretch what is expected or known into a kinder, more caring, more attentive, and more inclusive space than the world at large.
It needs to exist so I can.
I make work that imagines a brighter world, that reflects what I see around me, and refracts it to emphasize the absurdities of day to day life of a working class, queer, white, southerner. I want to make work that makes you laugh and cry at the same time and makes you wonder, is this the way that things actually have to be? Why?