In His Second Act, Mark Cuddy Bets on Chekhov—and Rochester

by David Andreatta

Mark Cuddy was known as a hands-on artistic director during his nearly three decades at the helm of Geva Theatre. 

But he’s been giving new meaning to that reputation as the founder of his latest venture, The Classics Company, which arrived on the local theater scene with authority in January with a striking production of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” at the Multi-use Community Cultural Center (MuCCC) on Atlantic Avenue.  

When he wasn’t clearing snow from the sidewalks around the theater, he was shuttling props through the back door. On a frigid winter morning a few days after the show closed, Cuddy helped his prop supervisor haul a sofa from the set in a rental truck and lug it up two flights of warehouse stairs into storage. Then he sat for an interview.

“It feels sometimes like all I’ve been doing is shoveling and lifting and moving stuff,” Cuddy said with a laugh after recounting his day. 

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