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Charles Ney
Charles "Chuck" Ney is a professor of acting and directing in the Department of Theatre & Dance. He has been artistic director at Idaho Repertory Theatre, Manhattan Clearing House, and Mary Moody Northen Theatre. Prior to coming to Texas State he was chair at the University of Idaho and taught at St. Edward’s University.
Chuck has directed at the Kennedy Center (Top Girls), Illinois Shakespeare Festival (Comedy of Errors), Texas Shakespeare Festival (Cymbeline), Idaho Repertory Theatre (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Two Booths and a Lincoln, Lost in Yonkers), Mary Moody Northen Theatre (Medea, Chicago, Fences, The Threepenny Opera, Playboy of the Western World), and Zachary Scott Theatre Center (On Golden Pond). His Texas State directing credits include Much Ado About Nothing, Going after Cacciato (world premiere of Romulus Linney’s adaptation of Tim O’Brien’s novel of the same title), A Little Night Music, Transposing Shakespeare, and Tongue of a Bird. Acting credits include Henry Boyd in The Two Lives of Napoleon Beazley (for which he was nominated for outstanding lead actor – Austin Circle of Theatres) and Nonno in Night of the Iguana.
Since 2004 he has traveled to Shakespeare theaters coast to coast, interviewing over 50 artistic directors and directors about their working methods and productions. He has written articles for American Theatre on his work and is presently working on a book, Directing Shakespeare in America.
His PhD is from the University of Illinois. His MFA in directing is from Southern Methodist University where he took an additional year’s training in their MFA acting program. His BFA is from Illinois Wesleyan University.
