Who We Are
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.  In addition to working behind the scenes as an artisitic associate, Chris has appeared in the Hudson Warehouse productions of Love's Labours' Lost as Moth and As You Like It as Sylvius, as well as the role of Cinna the Conspiritor in The Ides of March Benefit Reading of Julius Ceasar.  Other New York credits include, Dumbya's Rapture in the roles of Tom Delay and Paul Wolfowitz, performing in comedy clubs around Manhattan with the sketch comedy troup Lunchbox Voodoo, and the role of Eddie in Stakeout at TSI/Playtime Studios.  Film credits  include “I Am Legend”, and a featured role in the indie horror film “Ultimate Curse”.  Chris also appeared as Huckleberry Finn in the Windy City Players national tour of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.  In 2007 Chris began touring educational productions for the George St. Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ , where he has had the opportunity to understudy the roles of Eddie in The Sunshine Boys and Father Flynn in the Pulitzer Prize winning  play Doubt.


Mission Statement

The mission of Hudson Warehouse is to explore the classics and nurture the creation and production of new works.  Being informed by and responding to an engaged audience is key to the success and continued vitality of a form that has often been considered disengaged from the very audiences it wishes to include. We intend to reach out for and build an audience from all cultural and artistic experiences, drawing from all our communities and reaffirming that theatre is a "ware" that is essential to daily life.
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 founded the Hudson Warehouse, along with Ashley Kelly-Tata 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 well as As You Like It. 
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.
Michael Freeland
(Artistic Associate) Michael was an original member of the core production team of The Fall Collection, a New York multi media festival in 21 nights, and took on the job of Production Coordinator for the Actor and Director Development Forums. Currently he is working on the pre-production of the film “Werewolf of Astoria”, with director Michael Hall. He is also an original board member of Wide Eyed Productions and is a partner with Creativitycity.com, a website dedicated to giving artists a free and easy way to  promote and showcase their work.  Before moving to New York, Michael resided in Jackson, Mississippi where he was an Assistant Producer to Starplex Amphitheatres Summer of Hardcore Music in 1999. He is a Ballroom Dance instructor and assisted in securing monthly swing dance nights at notable Jackson, Mississippi clubs such as The Dock, Hal and Mals, and The Millennium. Michael received his acting training at the University of Southern Mississippi and The American Musical and Dramatic Academy. New York theatre credits include BAAAHHH, As You Like It,  Vatican Vince, Plays of  the Sunni Triangle, A Long Happy Marriage, The Changling, In Sheep’s Clothing,  Iphigenia, Film Noix, Incident Near Chaco Diner, The Dick Dialogues, Expiring Realities, Casting Call/Alien Invasion, Dracula, Fat Men in Skirts, Titus  Andronicus, Free Will and Wanton Lust. Regionally Michael has appeared in The Tempest, Sty of the Eye, Stories and  I Ain’t Told Nobody Yet.  While attending USM Michael he was in  Angels of Light Angels of Darkness, Marat/Sade, Everyman, Chamber Music.  His film work includes ”Hell’s Gate”, “Shortbus”, “Turbocharge”, “Pisser”, “Salted Nuts”, and “The Rising Place”. Michael is also known to work with New York’s own Improv Comedy Troupe Rash Behaviour, and has produced with Rash’s Kenny Wade Marshall.
Joe Hamel
(Assistant Artistic Director) Mr. Hamel was born and raised in Detroit and received his B.A. in English Literature there from Wayne State University. Upon arriving in NYC in 1999, he realized his interest in theater and began his training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. While serving as an intern with the Kings County Shakespeare Company, he understudied and performed in The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew, and A Christmas Carol.
He has also studied at the Actors Center and the American Globe Theatre and has understudied and performed Off Broadway at the Pearl Theatre Company in Ibsen’s The Master Builder and Machiavelli’s The Mandrake. Mr. Hamel has appeared Off Off Broadway as Brutus in Julius Caesar, as Dr. Dorn in The Seagull, as Duncan in Macbeth (Expanded Arts) as King Henry in Henry 6, Part 3 (ATA), and as Don Armado in Love's Labour's Lost, Touchstone in As You Like It, and Lennox in Macbeth (all for Hudson Warehouse). He had the pleasure of appearing in Fool (Gorilla Rep.) written by Victor Kaufold and directed by Michael Lew. He has appeared as William Shakespeare in Amy Freed's The Beard of Avon and as Laurence Olivier in Austin Pendleton's Orson's Shadow at the Queens Theatre in the Park. Film includes the DVD feature "A Certain Foolish Consistency" directed by Edin Velez.


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Mark Isler
(Artistic Associate) Mark began his theatrical career in Los Angeles when all of his friends auditioned for a summer production in high school. He didn’t want to be alone for the summer so he auditioned as well, and the love affair began. After a brief stay at Indiana University Mark returned to Los Angeles where he and some friends began the Santa Monica Shakespeare Experiment. After Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night the experiment changed directions and culminated with a production of Our Town. Mark then moved to New York and attended The American
Musical Dramatic Academy and after completion in 2006 immediately began work with Hudson Warehouse as assistant stage manager for Love’s Labour’s Lost, in which production he also appeared as Marcadae. He then stage managed The Bacchae later that year. In summer 2007 he performed the role of Amiens in the Hudson Warehouse production of As You Like It, and contributed technical and production support for Macbeth. He is thrilled to be part of this wonderful company and all its endeavors.
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