Ted Huffman is a writer and director for the stage. He studied Humanities at Yale University before apprenticing at San Francisco’s Merola Opera program.
His recent work includes The Story of Billy Budd, Sailor (Aix-en-Provence Festival), We Are the Lucky Ones (Amsterdam, Ruhrtriennale), Eugene Onegin (Covent Garden), Street Scenes (Paris Opera Académie), L’incoronazione di Poppea (Aix-en-Provence Festival, Versailles, Cologne, Rennes, Valencia, Toulon, Nederlandse Reisopera), The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions (Manchester International Festival, Holland Festival, Ruhrtriennale, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Southbank Centre, Bregenzer Festspiele), Denis & Katya (Opera Philadelphia, Amsterdam, Montpellier, Hannover, Southbank Centre, Pittsburgh, Music Theatre Wales), 4.48 Psychosis (Covent Garden, Prototype Festival, Strasbourg), The Time of Our Singing (Brussels, St. Gallen), Svádba (Aix-en-Provence Festival, Luxembourg, Angers-Nantes, Ljubliana Festival), Les mamelles de Tirésias (Aldeburgh Festival, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Amsterdam, Brussels, Valencia), Roméo et Juliette (Zurich), Madama Butterfly (Zurich, Montpellier), The Girl with a Pearl Earring (Zurich), Rinaldo (Frankfurt), Salome (Cologne), Le premier meurtre (Lille), Trouble in Tahiti (Amsterdam, Valencia), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Deutsche Oper Berlin, Montpellier), and Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno (Copenhagen, Montpellier).
His productions have garnered awards and nominations from the Olivier Awards, International Opera Awards, Opernwelt Awards, Royal Philharmonic Society Awards, Fedora Generali Prize, UK Theatre Awards, Reumert Awards, South Bank Sky Arts Awards and Ivor Novello Awards. He was a MacDowell Fellow in 2017.
During the 2025-26 season, Ted makes new productions for the Berlin Staatsoper unter den Linden (The Cunning Little Vixen), Opéra Comique (Werther), Opéra national du Rhin (Otello), and Glyndebourne Festival (Tosca). He will also revive The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions for the Park Avenue Armory and We Are the Lucky Ones for the Tiroler Festspiele Erl.