Stephen Marc Beaudoin

FROM opera director to singer/actor; from cultural critic to nonprofit arts administrator; Stephen Marc Beaudoin is becoming increasingly recognized for the creative originality and unusual versatility in his singular career that includes professional work across the US as a singer, actor, writer, stage director, producer and arts administrator.
NOTED by the Boston Globe for his “plaintive, attractive timbre” as a tenor, Stephen Marc Beaudoin has worked as a professional singer and actor in Boston and Kansas City, performing in multiple award-winning productions of Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera” (New Repertory Theatre), Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music” (Lyric Stage Co. of Boston), “Nixon in China” (Opera Boston) and the original musical “Cinderella Rocks!” (Gold Dust Orphans), as well as productions with Boston Playwrights Theatre, Hand2Mouth Theatre, American Heartland Theatre and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, where in 2005 he premiered his one-man show, “Franz Schubert: A Life.”
IN concert settings, Stephen Marc Beaudoin has appeared as a tenor soloist in a wide range of works including the Schnittke Requiem, Hildegard von Bingen Ordo Virtutem, Stravinsky Mass, Haydn Mass in Time of War, Mozart Requiem and Buxtehude Membra Jesu Nostri. As part of the Beaudoin/Wade voice and guitar duo with guitarist David Wade, he has been presented at venues including The Boston Athenaeum, King’s Chapel, the historic Gibson House and Arlington Street Church. Also a strong advocate of new music, Beaudoin has sung in world premiere works by composers including Daniel Pinkham, Michael Wartofsky, Malcolm Peyton, David Leisner, Felipe Lara and Shawn Crouch, and helped produce and sang in the world premiere of Martin Near’s “Six Characters in Search of an Opera,” hailed by the Boston Banner as an “engrossing and distinctive new work.” For five years he sang in the professional choir at historic King's Chapel, Boston, under the direction of Heinrich Christensen.
BEAUDOIN has an increasingly active profile as a stage director, with credits including critically-acclaimed productions of Handel’s “Acis and Galatea” (“an admirable, delightful production,” Richard Dyer, Boston Globe) and an original staged concert titled “Filthy/Rich” (“imaginative and disarming,” Boston Globe), both with Vox Consort. Also with Vox, he directed a rare staging of the J.S. Bach “St. John Passion” in collaboration with acclaimed choreographer Lorraine Chapman, and collaborated with visual artist Michael Dowling on his singular Medicine Wheel installation at the Boston Center for the Arts, honoring World AIDS Day. Beaudoin has also directed opera scenes for New England Conservatory and Opera Boston, and worked as an assistant director on “L’etoile” with Opera Boston (Scott Edmiston, director) and “Abduction from the Seraglio” with Opera Omaha (Sam Helfrich, director).
AS an arts journalist and critic, Beaudoin has contributed reviews and feature articles to a variety of print and online media, including Willamette Week, Bay Windows, South End News and EDGE Boston - he also keeps a blog, "From Every Corner," at http://fromeverycorner.blogspot.com.
Active also as an arts administrator, Beaudoin most recently was for two years the Executive Director of Vox Consort, a critically-acclaimed professional Boston early music ensemble. During that same period, he was the Assistant Director of The Fenway Alliance, a consortium of 22 cultural and academic institutions in Boston's Fenway neighborhood, during which time he managed and produced the popular Fenway Cultural District "Opening Our Doors!" community cultural festival. Beaudoin has also held positions with American Composer's Forum New England and Boston Gay Men's Chorus, and has worked as a consultant for a range of small to midsized arts organizations across the country, including Chamber Music Northwest, New England Light Opera and Animus Ensemble.
Beaudoin is currently focusing his creative energies on his new classical manband, FourScore (Ben Kinkley, Ben Landsverk, Brian Francis, Stephen Marc Beaudoin), which debuts August 19 + 25 in Portland, Oregon. (see myspace.com/fourscorepdx for more details)
STEPHEN MARC BEAUDOIN is a 2002 graduate, with Distinction in Performance honors, of the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied voice with Susan Fisher Clickner. He is currently classical music and dance critic for Willamette Week, a member of the professional chamber choir of Portland's Trinity Episcopal Cathedral: Trinity Consort, and an active member of the NEC Alumni Council. Beaudoin is currently a resident of Portland, Oregon.
Check me out at "From Every Corner" - arts life, queer life, nightlife, my life, seven days a week: http://fromeverycorner.blogspot.com
Selected press quotes:
“Beaudoin wants to shatter stereotypes and make classical music hip for his generation,” Keith O’Brien, The Boston Globe, November 16, 2005
"Stephen Marc Beaudoin sang the Shepherd with a plaintive, attractive timbre,” Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe, December 4, 2001
“Beaudoin is an accomplished tenor,” Thomas Garvey, Bay Windows, November 12, 2004
“Beaudoin’s show [is] breaking new ground... ” William Henderson, InNewsweekly, September 4, 2005 (on “Franz Schubert: A Life”)
"Among the Northwest's finest singers..." James McQuillen, The Oregonian, November 6, 2006
"Tenor Stephen Marc Beaudoin offered his psalms with expressiveness and crisp diction." James McQuillen, The Oregonian, March 12, 2007