Biography:

Callum trained at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, Stephen F Austin State University, Texas and Goldsmith’s University of London. He has been making theatre as an actor, writer and musician for over a decade in a variety of genres including musical theatre, live/performance art, immersive theatre, site specific theatre, folk/story-telling, classical texts, film and television.

Callum was a long-time member of Bob Carlton's award-winning ensemble of actor-musicians where he performed in countless productions including Godspell, The Great Gatsby, As You Like It, Treasure Island and Return to the Forbidden Planet. Since then Callum has performed in UK No1 tours, at fringe festivals, in films and and commercials and regularly records audiobooks as a narrator.

Callum is also a writer and, with his writing partner David Shopland, has seen multiple musicals produced professionally since 2009 in a variety of venues in London, Texas, Aberdeen, Bristol and even the National Theatre of China. Shopland and Hughes' musical Living Out Loud was live-streamed to over 250,000 people in 2018. They have also written pop songs for former Only Men Aloud star Ross Leadbeater and were comissioned to write the official anthem for the 2017 BRICS conference.

Callum has also composed the music for more than 10 different productions including Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, The Fir Tree, Into Thin Air, Slasher, Drive Your Road and Furious: the battle of '72 to name a few.

Plays:

Fast and Slow (2022, Immersive/Site Specific, Bath Fringe Festival)

The Hound of The Norwoods (2019, South Norwood Sherlock Holmes Festival)

Aesthetics (2019 Immersive/Site Specific, Bath Fringe Festival)

How Soon Is Now (2017 Immersive/Site Specific, Bath Fringe Festival)

Dracula (2016 Immersive/Site Specific, Preston Manor, Brighton)

Drive Thru Eucharist (2016 Immersive/Site Specfic, Bath Fringe Festival)

Into Thin Air (2015 Space Arts Centre, 2016 Hounslow Arts Centre)

Prologue (2019 Immersive/Site Specific, Bath Fringe Festival)

A Silent Mouth (2011 Barn Theatre Sidcup, 2014 Lunchbox Theatre Aberdeen, 2015 Alma Theatre Bristol)

Coffee and John (2010 Downstage Theatre, Texas)

Musicals:

An Evening of Shopland & Hughes (2021, The Phoenix Arts Club)

First Spirit (2019, Foshan, China)

Living Out Loud (2018 Fuqing, China)

Lessons Learned (2017 National Theatre of China, Beijing)

The Little Mermaid (2013 – 2014 Riverside Studios)

Cinderella: The Anti Panto (2012 – 2013 Leicester Square Theatre)

A Life in Monochrome (2012 Space Arts Centre)

Original Songs:

Express Delivery (commissioned by Ross Leadbeater for 2019 EP)

Let Me In (commissioned by Ross Leadbeater for 2019 EP)

Soho Nights (commissioned by Ross Leadbeater for 2019 EP)

Hands Across The World (song commissioned for 2017 International trade conference theme)