In addition to teaching theatre to Northwestern students, Dr. Hubbard is a pop culture critic, performer of one-man shows, and frequent participant in fringe theatre festivals in Minnesota and Kansas City.
Award winner
Dr. Hubbard won a fellowship offered by the Kennedy Center American Theater Festival, which paid for him to spend two weeks at the O’Neill Critics Institute. The institute—a summer program of the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, Connecticut—is a boot camp for aspiring drama critics. Professional drama critics from major newspapers across the country present workshops during the institute, and participants review plays premiering at the festival, with those reviews critiqued by the drama critics.
Author, playwright and director
A favorite genre of Dr. Hubbard is solo performance, perhaps the oldest form of storytelling. He is the author of two books and several autobiographical one-man shows. Among his solo shows are How Helicopters Figure in My Dreams, Grace Notes, Dancing with Jimmy, and A North Dakota Carol, which he has performed at fringe festivals, high schools, colleges, churches and community centers across the country—including New York City, Baltimore and Kansas City. He also directs both on and off campus, and recently directed for the Shakespeare in Paradise theatre festival in the Bahamas.
Think Christian
One of Dr. Hubbard’s loves is aesthetic criticism, or the opportunity to critically examine art—especially from a Christian perspective. He does a lot of dramatic criticism in general, but his favorite client is ReFrame Media, an electronic media ministry of the Christian Reformed Church. Among ReFrame Media’s projects is Think Christian, a faith and pop culture blog. A frequent contributor, Dr. Hubbard appreciates the blog’s Reformed approach to popular culture and relishes the opportunity to dig deeply into movies and TV shows that he cares about.
Fringe festivals
Fringe theatre is produced outside of main theatre institutions and often features small-scale productions that are non-traditional in style or subject matter. Originated in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1947, they are open-access, democratic festivals with acts sometimes chosen by lottery. Dr. Hubbard has presented his one-man shows at fringe festivals in Minneapolis and Kansas City.
