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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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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. Arriving in NYC in 1999, he realized his interest in theater and began training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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Mr. Hamel made his made Off Broadway debut at the Pearl Theatre Company in Machiavelli’s The Mandrake, understudying and performing the role of Messer Nicia. He has appeared as Glendower, Warwick, Blunt, and Hastings in Henry the Fourth Part 1 and 2, as well as multiple roles in King Lear for ShakespeareNYC, He has also appeared as Friar Jacomo in The Jew of Malta and the Duke in the Merchant of Venice, both for the York Shakespeare Company. Mr. Hamel has also trained at the American Globe Theatre, The Actors Center, and served an internship with the Kings County Shakespeare Company, where he understudied and performed in The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Taming of the Shrew, and A Christmas Carol. For The ‘Warehouse,’ he has been a producer, business manager, writer, press officer, dramaturge, and began the Shakespeare in the Bar series, and played the roles of Don Armado (Love's Labour's Lost), Touchstone (As You Like It), Lennox (Macbeth), Alonso (Tempest), and Claudius in Hamlet, for which production he also adapted the text. He had the pleasure of appearing in Fool (Gorilla Rep.); and as Shakespeare in Amy Freed's The Beard of Avon and Laurence Olivier in Austin Pendleton's Orson's Shadow, both at the Queens Theatre in the Park. Mr. Hamel has also appeared Off Off Broadway as Brutus in Julius Caesar, as Dr. Dorn in The Seagull, as King Henry in Henry 6, Part 3.
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Susane Lee
(Executive Producer /
Managing 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
(Development and Outreach) 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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Michael Freeland
(Development and Outreach) 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.
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Sydney Stanton
(Development and Outreach) 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.
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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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Mark Isler
(Administrator) 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
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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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