Branden Huldeen

About

Specialties: New Work Development (musicals and plays), dramaturgical work, not-for-profit performing arts management, creative collaboration and strategic planning

Experience

• Barrington Stage Company (10 yrs 6 mos)
  • Artistic Producer; Associate Artistic Director
    May 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 3 mos

  • Artistic Associate and Director of New Play Development
    Feb 2016 - May 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Downtown Pittsfield Inc (8 yrs 7 mos)
  • Board Member
    2018 - Present · 8 yrs 7 mos

  • Board President
    May 2020 - May 2024 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• Visiting Professor at Molloy University
  Dec 2015 - Feb 2016 · 3 mos

  Professor- "The Composer Project- Cole Porter" (Left position to take new job at Barrington Stage Company)

• New Works Director/Festival Producing Director at National Alliance for Musical Theatre
  Feb 2008 - Feb 2016 · 8 yrs 1 mo

  I oversaw the New Works Programs for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre and help our 200+ members grow and deepen their new works programs. I was also the Producing Director of the NAMT Festival of New Musicals which has, since 1989, presented the top 8 new musicals in the field to an industry-only audience every fall in New York City. During my time at NAMT, I worked with over 100 writers on over 65 new musicals in connection to the Festival of New Musicals.

• Visiting Professor at COLLABORATIVE ARTS PROJECT 21 INC
  May 2015 - Nov 2015 · 7 mos

  Professor- Song Analysis Professor and Director of final musical- "Collaborative Musical Project": co-taught students on the creation of their own original musical and directed that musical at the end of that semester.