Formerly Hudson Warehouse Est. 2004
Who We Are
Company Members
Bruce Barton
Bruce Barton appeared as Captain De Treville in the world premiere of The Three Musketeers which was part of Hudson Warehouse's 2013 10th Anniversary Season. He also appeared as the Archbishop of York in Richard III , Cardinal Pandulph in King John and as Leontes in The Winter's Tale .He has also appeared in New York City with the Blue Coyote Theater Group, Gorilla Rep, Jean Cocteau Rep, Judith Shakespeare Company, The Workshop Theater, The Supporting Characters, The Mettawee River Company and Theatre for the New City, as well as with a variety of regional theaters.
Deborah K Bjornsti
Deborah has most recently been seen onstage in Turn To Flesh's "Beyond the Inge nue" festival, performing as Grendel's Mother in He was a good king by Char lotte Lang-Bush. This is her third Hudson Warehouse show. She has previ ously been seen in Lysisarah , and The Three Mus keteers: Twenty Years Later . Deborah would like to thank Hudson Warehouse and her friends and family for their support!
David Palmer Brown
David took on the title role of King Lear as part of Hudson Warehouse's 10 th Anniversary Season. He first appeared with the Warehouse as Polonius in the 2009 production of Hamlet . Since then he has appeared as De Guiche in Cyrano , Lord Capulet in Romeo & Juliet , Sorin in The Seagull and Baptista Minola in The Taming of the Shrew . Also in New York, he has been seen as Sir George Crofts in Boo Arts' production of Mrs. Warren's Profession , Frank Elgin in The Country Girl at The New Actors' Workshop, Thomas Becket in Theatre St. John's production of Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral , and Trigorin in One Chair Productions No Weddings or Funerals at the End . He recently played the five male roles in the British Theater Guides 5-Star Rated production of Breaking the Silence at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.Regionally David has appeared in the title role in Dracula , with The National Players, Max Dupree in Knuckle with the Source Theatre, Agamemnon in Orestes' Trial with the Washington Shakespeare Theatre and Branch Rickey in The Most Valuable Player with The Kennedy Center Theatre for Young People. He is also a member of The Workshop Theater, where he has played Arthur in Sunday Afternoon , Richard Grayson in Moonlight & Love Songs , and the Son in The Antique Shoppe . David has years of experience in stage combat, with rapier, rapier and dagger, small and broad sword.
David has directed and also taught acting working primarily with high school and junior high school students and hopes to do more of that anon. David received his MFA from Catholic University.
Patrina Caruana
Patrina first appeared with Hudson Warehouse as Nell in the 2012 production of Comedy Of Errors . She returned in 2014 to play Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest . This year she was a part of the Hudson Warehouse's "Many Faces of Love" Valentine's Day Monologue Festival. Most recently she appeared in Georgia Makes a Scene directed by Susane ee as part of the 365 Women NYC One Act Festival at the Sheen Center.Patrina grew up in Westfield, New Jersey and graduated with honors from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama and a minor in history. She received additional classical theater training at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and performed ith Manhattan Shakespeare Project (all female Henry V ) and Holmdel Theater ompany (Hermia in Midsummer ). She is passionate about theater for young udiences and was featured in the 2012 and 2013 New York Children's Theater Festivals. She was also featured in season three of HBO's "Boardwalk Empire."
Patrina recently returned to NYC after two national tours with Artspower. She has now performed professionally in 27 states and hopes to visit all 50 before she turns 30. She is also a singer and some her favorite musical theater roles include Ado Annie in Oklahoma! , Sue Snell in Carrie: The musical , and Thea in Spring Awakening . She would like to thank Susane Lee and Nicholas Martin-Smith for the incredible opportunity to call this theater company home.
Emily Sarah Cohn
Emily Sarah Cohn originally from Florida, has been living in New York for the past few years. Her roles with Hudson Warehouse are Molly Molloy in His Girl Friday , Kitty in The Three Musketeers , Chea in Trojan Women , and Cordelia in Hamlet . She performed in Trojan Women at the Bronx Jail with the Warehouse. She has also performed in Hudson Warehouse's Valentine's Day Monologue Festivals. Other Favorite roles include Company in The Theory of Relativity (Goodspeed Opera House) and Sheila in HAIR (Andrews Living Arts), Emily received her BFA in Music Theatre from The Hartt School and has also completed both the Sketch and Improv programs at Upright Citizens Brigade.
Karen Collazzo
Karen Collazzo made her debut with Hudson Warehouse as Ann Smoulder in Lysisarah: "Let's Make America Great Again!" . She then had the opportunity to play Hildy Johnson in His Girl Friday with Hudson Warehouse, in one of her favorite roles and it was an Amazing experience she will always treasure. Since then, she has appeared with Hudson Warehouse as Milady de Winter in The D'Artagnan Romances: Part 1 The Three Musketeers , Elise in Trojan Women , Queen Anne in The Three Musketeers: Twenty Years Later and most recently as Player Queen in Hamlet .Regionally, Karen has appeared in a variety of productions such as Theresa in Circle Mirror Transformation , Caroline in Something Cloudy, Something Clear , Kate in Taming of the Shrew , Katherine in Henry V and Bobbi Michele in Last of the Red Hot Lovers .
Tom Demenkoff
Mr. Demenkoff wrote the adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull which he directed for Hudson Warehouse's 2011 season, he also served as the Assistant Director and Musical Director for the Warehouse's 2010 production of Cyrano . Mr. Demenkoff has appeared twice with Hudson Warehouse, as Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Nights Dream and in the title role of Macbeth .A graduate of Ithaca College, Mr. Demenkoff debuted in NYC with the original Broadway productions of both Godspell and Grease and has worked as an actor in over 100 productions regionally as well as in New York and Los Angeles. Television and film credits include: "General Hospital," "Law & Order," "Fantasy Island," "Eight is Enough," "Ed," "100 Centre Street," and, of course, the Troma cult classic "Surf Nazis Must Die." He directed Romeo and Juliet for Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, won regional honors for A Few Good Men , 1776 and Equus ; and received three international film festival awards for his documentary "The Children of Izieu," which aired on PBS.
Mr. Demenkoff helps spearhead the Education and Outreach program of Hudson Warehouse. He is the Director of Outreach for the Stella Adler Acting Studio which has programs in both New York City, Los Angeles as well as Vieques, Puerto Rico. He served as the Artistic Director of PossibleArts Theatre Project, creating interdisciplinary playwriting and performance workshops for schools, correctional facilities and therapeutic communities. He has also taught at The Apollo Theater, LaGuardia High School and has served as the Artistic Director for arts programming at Harlem's A. Philip Randolph Campus School.
Nick DeVita
Nick DeVita 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 .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.
Ben Farmer
Benjamin Farmer played Marc Antony in HCTC’s 2019 production of Antony & Cleopatra. He also appeared as George Seacoal in 2016's Much Ado About Nothing, in Veterans Day Commemoration reading Civil War: Letters and Stories from the New York Regiments, in 2015 in honor of the 150 anniversary of the end of the war, and in the 2020 documentary “ Vietnam: Personal Stories of War.”Regional credits include Monty Python's SPAMalot (WINNER Best Supporting Actor - PAMTA), Les Miserables, Rough Crossing, Lear (King Lear), Twelfth Night, KabukTitus based on Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. Also regionally he appeared in The Tempest, Legally Blonde, The Producers, Romeo & Juliet, and Godspel.
Film/TV credits include “The Texture of Falling” (WINNER Best Supporting Actor - PIFF). “Some Days Are Better Than Others,” and “The Falls” trilogy.
Ben is a proud member of Actors Equity and SAG/AFTRA. He's represented by UGA Talent and The Gasser Group. He's married to actress Megan Carver, a proud puppy-papa to Rocket Elizabeth Farmer, and a 3-timer Marathoner.
Annette Fox
Annette Fox is a NYC actor. After a hiatus in the suburbs to raise three sons and manage an art world career, Annette returned to NYC in 2008 and rededicated herself to her first love, acting. Taking classes at HB Studio with renowned teachers such as Austin Pendleton, Lorraine Serabian, Carol Morley, Chris Martin, Rasa Kazlas, Annette honed her acting skills, and continues to do so, by taking acting classes and workshops regularly.As of 2013 she started to perform on a regular basis. Highlights include : 2013 Maura in Scarlet Ribbons, by Meri Wallace, directed by Arthur French for Manhattan Repertory Theater, 2015 Mrs Frencham in Not Now Darling, by Ray Cooney and John Chapman, Amateur Comedy Club; 2016 Flying, by Carolyn Boriss-Krimsky for HB Playwrights Theater; Susan in City Girls and Desperadoes by Pamela Enz, opposite Austin Pendleton at the Secret Theater, Long Island City: 2018 Interviewer, The Shadowbox, by Michael Cristofer, Oasis NY Theater Group; 2019 Queen Anne of Austria, The Man in the Iron Mask, adapted by Susane Lee, Hudson Classical Theater. Days before the Covid pandemic closed all theaters in March, 2020, she performed as Mrs. Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, adapted by Susane Lee for Hudson Classical Theater.
2020 she performed in a Zoom theater production, Fractals, by Carolyn Boriss-Krimsky, for Smartphone Theater. As theater re-opened in 2021, she was cast as the Marquise de St. Meran/Heloise for Hudson Classical Theater’s production of The Count of Monte Cristo, adapted by Susane Lee.
In 2022, Annette performed a lead role as Hannah, in American Mu$cle, by award winning playwright & novelist, Fred Jay Gordon, at Teatro Latea, NYC, as Nanny in A Doll’s House for Love Creek Productions, Storyteller, New Hope live at Joe’s Pub for Generation Women, Louise in Call Me, by Carolyn Boriss-Krimsky for Gallery Players Black Box Festival.
She is also writing a one-woman show. Annette is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA.
Ron Hatcher
Ron Hatcher hails from Montgomery County, MD where he was first bitten by the theater bug. His first onstage role was the Cowardly Lion in Westland Middle School's production of The Wizard of OZ .His dream of working as a writer-director in TV and film brought him to the world of entertainment technology in NYC where he met the men and women who make Hudson Warehouse the home for artists that it is. He eventually served as Stage Manager for Hudson Warehouse's The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Abridged , and Lysisarah: Let's Make America Great Again! He performed on-stage in Vietnam: Soldiers Tell Their Stories 40 Years Later , and the UWS Community Read of James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain , and His Girl Friday where he played journalist Jim. Meanwhile his TV credits include behind the scenes work on various television programs for the Science Channel, Netflix and HBO's "VINYL."
Ron is a graduate of CUNY New City College of Technology and UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television Professional Program in Screenwriting. He freelances as a multimedia technician for various organizations including corporate events, concerts, film festivals and experimental theater companies. Ron has extensive marketing experience and has also studied film in Japan. Ron is a member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE).
Aya Ibaraki
Aya first appeared with Hudson Classical Theatre Company in 2014 in their first contemporary play, Same River Twice. Since then, she has performed in HCTC's three WHAM productions: Pride and Prejudice, Trojan Women and their documentary, What They Said. She has also performed in their Valentine's Day Monologue Festival, Many Faces of Love. This summer, she will be playing Queen and Keeper in Richard II.Aya is a graduate of AMDA. She has trained with Wynn Handman and at Shakespeare and Company. As a puppeteer, she performs for children in treatment in hospitals across the US. She is a member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.
Travis James
Travis James has worked with Hudson Classical Theater Company on Antony & Cleopatra, Romeo & Juliet, and, most recently in Love’s Labour’s Lost. His previous work includes Murder on the Orient Express (McCarter Theater), Lettice & Lovage (Westport Country Playhouse), and Taming of the Shrew (Connecticut Free Shakespeare). His previous New York credits include Letter of Intention (Strawberry One-Act Festival), Battle for Central Park (Dixon Place/The Tank), and the film Introvert’s Guide to Activism, which has been shown at numerous film festivals across the US. When he’s not performing, he can be found taking classes with Completely Ridiculous Productions or making Get Out The Vote calls for local political campaigns across the country. Travis thanks his family, his friends, Completely Ridiculous Productions, Larry Singer, Kevin Connors, Jim Schilling, and Doris Fiotakis.For his Dad❤️ Nam-Myo-Renge-Kyo
Roxann Kraemer
Roxann Kraemer first had the privilege of appearing with Hudson Warehouse in the role of Arkadina in their 2011 production of The Seagull . She has since then appeared with Hudson Warehouse as Queen Elizabeth in Richard III , Kent in King Lear , Decius Brutus in Julius Caesar, Escalus in Measure for Measure , Paulina in The Winter's Tale , Mrs. Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer , Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing , Leontine in The Triumph of Love , Hecuba in Trojan Women and Nurse in Romeo and Juliet . Ms. Kraemer has also appeared in a number of staged readings for Hudson Warehouse's acclaimed W.A.G.G and Shakespeare in the Bar series.Ms. Kraemer grew up in the small town of Plain, Wisconsin - population 688. She holds a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music degrees in Vocal Performance from the University of Wisconsin School of Music in Madison. Ms. Kraemer was also a member of the acting program at Circle-in-the-Square in New York City.
While pursuing her degrees at the University of Wisconsin School of Music, Ms. Kraemer appeared in a number of productions in the area including The Fantasticks , Celebration , The Threepenny Opera , Godspell , Ardele and The Matchmaker . She also performed in a number of operas and toured in the University's opera outreach program in Così fan Tutte and Le Nozze di Figaro . While at the University, Ms. Kraemer was also selected to be an apprentice artist with the Des Moines Metro Opera, working with distinguished coaches and conductors and appearing in mainstage productions of Tosca , The Ballad of Baby Doe and Lucia di Lammermoor .
Ms. Kraemer's performances have allowed her to travel extensively throughout the United States. She has now appeared or travelled through all 50 states. Ms. Kraemer spent four years sailing the mighty waters of this great nation for the Delta Queen Steamboat Company where she performed in a vocal quartet and debuted her one woman show - Come Rain or Come Shine .
Ms. Kraemer spent a semester as an artist-in-residence at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia where she taught acting, voice, and additionally, coached and performed in their production of Nunsense . She has also worked as a teacher and coach for young actors at the Beginnings Workshop in New York.
In addition to roles performed with Hudson Warehouse, some of Ms. Kraemer's favorite roles include Pam in Baby , Sr. Mary Amnesia in Nunsense, Delphinia in Babes in Toyland , and Amanda in For Whom the Southern Bell Tolls . Ms. Kraemer has filmed several plays for PATV's award-winning playwright's series in Great Neck, NY, including "Blind Date" and the sequel, "Blind Date: What Happened". "Blind Date" won 1st Place in the Northeast Region Video Festival for Arts and Theater - Professional Division.
Ms. Kraemer is a member of Actor's Equity Association.
Katherine Lerner-Lam
Katie (a.k.a. Mei-Mei) most recently played Lady Macduff in HCTC's August production of Macbeth and also served as Fight Captain. She previously assisted with fights for Sense & Sensibility (2020) and Count of Monte Cristo (2021), as well as with our summer Shakespeare Workouts. She is an assistant fight instructor for New York Combat for Stage and Screen, Past stage acting credits include Beijing Playhouse's A Christmas Carol and Collaboration Town's Horror Show; film acting credits include "The Underwear Ordeal", "The Demon Inside", and "File 6."
Austin Reynolds
Austin most recently played Don Armado in the July 2021 production of Love's Labour's Lost and Fernand in The Count of Monte Cristo . He also played Willoughby in our Sense & Sensibility (2020) and DeGuiche in The Man in the Iron Mask (2019). He also portrayed Abraham Rodriguez in the company's documentary, "Vietnam: Personal Stories of War." Other roles include Edmund in the University of Florida's production of King Lear in 2017.