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Who We Are
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Nicholas Martin-Smith
(Producing Artistic Director) It was his grandfather’s cousin, playwright, Edward Martyn, who along with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory of Poole, founded Dublin’s Abby Theatre. Mr. Martin-Smith has been the Artistic Director of the Hudson Warehouse since its inception in the winter of 2004. He directed, and appeared in the company’s inaugural production of The Tempest the following summer. He also directed Twelfth Night: Or What You Will, Love’s Labour’s Lost, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, as well as Hamlet. It was Mr. Martin-Smith’s concept of a fractured Hamlet, personified in three distinctly separate manifestations of the title role, that was realized in the 2009 season’s innovative production. This production was based on the adaptation by Joe Hamel and Nicholas Martin-Smith that was very well received by critics and audiences alike. Other directorial credits include Hotel America at the Metropolitan and Think Twice with the O.T.C. both of which had the film rights picked up. Mr. Martin-Smith also directed The Night of January the 16th with the O.T.C. and Finding Mr. Right at the New York Comedy Club. Mr. Martin-Smith has worked for years as an actor, most recently appearing Off-Broadway as Frank Deluca in The Rise of Dorothy Hale at St. Luke’s Theatre and as Hartrison Brent in Perfect Crime at the Snapple Theatre Center. Also Off Broadway as Angelo in Measure for Measure (Soho Rep), Mark Antony in Julius Caesar (Douglas Fairbanks) and as Antyphilus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors (Riverside Shakespeare Co.). He also appeared in New York as Claudius in Hamlet, the Duke of Cornwall in King Lear and as King Magnus in The Apple Cart, under the direction of David Scott all at Theatre Ten-Ten. Other roles include Dr. Lvov in Ivanov at The Mint Theatre, Pentheus in Chuck Mee’s adaptation of The Bacchae, and Lt. Charles in Renee Phillippi’s adaptation of The Adding Machine at 78th Street Theatre Lab. Regionally he has appeared in The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing both at Boston’s Publick Theatre, and as Konstantine in The Seagull at the A.R.T. in Cambridge. He also appeared as Franny in Balm in Gilead, John Polk in Am I Blue, and in the title role of David Mamet’s Edmond, all at the Alley Theatre Company. Television credits include, “Law & Order,” “Another World” and “Spencer: For Hire.” Film credits include “Picture Perfect,” “Carlito’s Way,” “The Clothes Line” and “Boys Night Out”. He received his B.F.A. from Tulane University and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College where he was a graduate fellow. In addition to teaching at Brooklyn College, Mr. Martin-Smith has taught acting at Marymount Manhattan College, St. Francis College and at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, as well as at his own studio. He is the recipient of the Monroe Lippman Founder’s Award for Acting, and a Best in Boston Award for his performance in the title role of David Mamet’s Edmond.
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Susane Lee
(Assistant Artistic Director)
Susane has extensive experience in television and stage work. She began her television career at WGBH Public TV in Boston, where she worked on the NOVA Science Series for three years. She came to New York City and spent the following twelve years working as a Producer and Writer for Channel 13/WNET.
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During this time, she traveled to more than 100 cities across the United States scouting locations, interviewing and filming experts in their field. She has worked with international filmmakers, composers, editors, and such narrators as Roy Scheider, Matthew Modine, and William H. Macy. She has worked as a casting director, scouting and auditioning to find potential hosts for her documentaries. She has produced and written dozens of one hour documentaries for PBS, including producing and writing a Special 2-Part series on Urban Wildlife. She won the PBS Communications Award in 1999 as well as a Fellowship from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
As a member of the Writers Guild of America, East, she spearheaded their Writing Workshops program, enlisting writers to become mentors for at-risk teenagers. She partnered WGAE with “826 New York,” a nonprofit writing and tutoring center founded by David Eggers. This joint writing workshop resulted in the students, 15 to 18 year olds, writing radio dramas which were broadcast on public radio WNYE. Susane currently produces the WGAE's popular Screenplay Reading Series for Tom Fontanta, the Executive Producer & Writer of HBO’s “OZ” series and “Homicide: Life on the Street” and his Foundation. Working with casting agents, directors, and actors, she brings to the stage the works of emerging and seasoned writers on the east coast.
Susane has won the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Nonfiction Literature in 2005. She won a Fiction Writing Grant from the Urban Artists Initiative in 2006. She published a memoir in MORE magazine, a national magazine, in February 2010. She is a Lifetime Member of the Writers Guild of America, East and a Member of the Screen Actors Guild.
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Drew Rosene
(Associate Producer) Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, it was there that Drew made his stage debut as The Little Boy in The Velveteen Rabbit. Rosene graduated from the Musical Theatre Program at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in 2005. He began working with the Hudson Warehouse as a costume coordinator on As You Like It during the 2007 season.
That summer, he also appeared as Donalbain in Macbeth. In 2009, he performed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Snug. Since 2007, Rosene’s unique and inspired costume designs have been a vital part of the high production qualities that are a trademark of the Hudson Warehouse. Rosene is now the company’s resident Costume Designer as well as an Associate Producer for the Warehouse, a position he has held for the past three seasons. He also works as a Co-casting Director for Way Out Worldwide Productions. Mr. Rosene writes and develops his own scripts and is starting his own independent film production company.
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Chris Behan
(Artistic Associate) Chris Behan has been an actor since the age of 11. He arrived in NYC in the spring of 2004 to attend the American Musical & Dramatic Academy. Chris has worked with Nicholas Martin-Smith and the Hudson Warehouse since 2005 when he made his New York theater debut in the role of Fabian in Twelfth Night.
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In addition to working behind the scenes as an artistic associate Chris has also appeared in Loves Labors Lost, As You Like It, Pericles, The Tempest, and Hamlet. Other NY credits include understudy work at the Pearl Theatre Co's Twelfth Night, Dumba's Rapture, Lunchbox Voodoo Sketch Comedy, The Warehouse's “Ides of March Benefit Reading of Julius Caesar”, and AMDA's “The Arthur Miller/August Wilson Project.” National tours include The Windy City Players tour of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Regionally Chris has worked at The George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ as a resident touring actor and main stage understudy.
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Nick DeVita
(Artistic Associate) made his Hudson Warehouse debut as Malcolm in the 2007 production of Macbeth. Since then Nick has appeared in other Warehouse productions such as Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, A Mid-Summer Night's Dream, Trojan Women, Cyrano, and Romeo & Juliet.
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Mr. DeVita also serves as Hudson Warehouse's technology advisor, running their Twitter feed (@HudsonWarehouse ) and their Foursquare location. Mr. DeVita has also worked with The Williamstown Theater Festival under the artistic direction of Roger Reese in their 2006 season in their productions of Romeo & Juliet as well as the original workshop production of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Mr. DeVita can be seen in a recurring role in Playstation 3's "It Only Does Everything" commercial series with Playstation spokesperson Kevin Butler as well as Best Buy and Geek Squad's on-line and television ad campaigns. Mr. DeVita has studied at the American Musical Dramatic Academy as well as the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City.
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Sydney Stanton
(Artistic Associate) Originally from Texas, Sydney has been living and working in New York City for the past six years. After graduating from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in 2004, she turned to improv and joined the sketch comedy troupe Lunchbox Voodoo that performed throughout New York City. Sydney made her début with the Hudson Warehouse in the summer of 2007 when she appeared as Audrey in As You Like It. It was also during that season that she began her work as a seamstress and costume coordinator, positions she continues to hold with the company. Other productions she has appeared in with the Warehouse are Pericles and the 2009 revival of The Tempest, a musically driven piece in which as a dancer she portrayed one of Arial’s “Quality’s.” Other work includes the role of Eva in the George Street Playhouse's touring production of And Then They Came For Me and her Off-Broadway début in Press #93 For Kosher Jewish Girls in Krakow, written by Tuvia Tenenbaum.
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