Chad Hutson

Background

About Chad Hutson

Storytelling is our species’ way to communicate, preserve human history, inspire, and connect. I have been a storyteller from a very young age, starting with an overactive imagination as a young boy growing up in Spokane, Washington, to my move westward working as a newspaper reporter with Washington daily newspapers and the Associated Press. Being too opinionated, I left journalism and went into marketing/communications for the private sector, and for the last 17 years the federal government. A couple of years ago fate intervened and I received an unsolicited flyer from the University of Washington for a screenwriting class. One year later I typed "Fade In" for the first time and found my true calling. Since then, I've won 8 national and international screenwriting competitions, been named as a second rounder at the Austin Film Festival four consecutive years, and was awarded scholarships with Stowe and Rocaberti fellowships. Someday, when I grow up, I'd like to be a full-time screenwriter.