TwelfthNight
By Wm. Shakespeare
Directed byNicholas Martin-Smith
Adapter & Co-Director: Susane Lee
Production Stage Manager: Emma Weiner
Fight Direction: Tony Mita
From New York Combat for Stage and Screen
Costume Design: Tanuka Ghosh
Musical Director: Nathan Mattingly
Assistant Director: Will Stevens
Assistant Stage Manager: Ila Finn
Production Intern: Henry Nunez
Who's Who
*Denotes Equity Member appearing with permission of Actor’s Equity Association (AEA) without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.
Eric Alexander (Sir Toby Belch) After a dozen years off
the stage, Eric is thrilled to make his NYC theater debut with Hudson
Classical! He'd like to thank his friends, castmates and partner,
Natalia, for supporting him as well as Susan for the encouragement to
return to what he loves most. @Eric_Alexander_NYC
*Molly Bader (Viola) is thrilled to be making her Hudson
Classical debut! Molly holds an MFA in Acting from Purdue University
and a BA in Theatre from Buffalo State College. Favorite roles include
Annabella/Pamela/Margaret in The 39 Steps, Speed in The Two Gentlemen
of Verona, and Laura in The Glass Menagerie. When not onstage Molly is
a visual artist, acting coach, and nature lover. Molly would like to
thank her fiancé Wyndham, her family, and her friends for all their
love and support. Website: www.mollybader.com
Chris Behan (Fabian/Valentine/Priest) Hudson Classical Theater Co:
Twelfth Night (2005), Loves Labours’ Lost, As You Like It,
The Tempest, Trojan Women, Hamlet, Pericles, The Taming of the Shrew,
The Rover, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare...Abridged
with U/S work in Richard III, The Seagull, The Three Musketeers.
Pearl Theatre Co: ‘Pick Your Poison Reading Series,’ main stage
U/S work in Twelfth Night, Henry IV pt. 1. George St. Playhouse:
U/S work includes Doubt, Roger is Dead, The Sunshine Boys.
Florida Studio Theatre: Pinocchio. Windy City Players:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Chris is a company regular with
Project Theater’s monthly site specific productions of ‘Our Bar.’
“I love you Kimmy, Chris, and Kelly. You, you, you.”
Deborah K Bjornsti (Understudy Olivia) is a company
member with Hudson Classical Theater Company, and is happy to be on
stage covering the role of Olivia. Recently scene on stage with Hudson
in School for Scandal as Lady Teazle, and as Emma in Emma, Deborah is
happy to be back for her 9th show with them. Big thanks to the cast,
crew, and Hudson team for their trust and support, and to Duke Orsino,
who she actually does like very much.
*Bryan Bryk (Sebastian/Curio) is happy to be working with
Hudson Classical Theatre Company as a Company Member, and his 6th
production with the Company. Recent roles with Hudson include Young
Richard in Margaret: Shakespeare's Warrior Queen and Malcolm in
Macbeth. Originally from Cleveland, Bryan can be seen around the city
going to auditions, recording audiobooks, and performing with his
improv comedy troupe, Quest For The Missing Scripts.
*Karen Collazzo (Olivia) Karen is an Artist in Residence
with Hudson Classical Theater Company & is delighted to be working with
such a talented cast & creative team! She has appeared previously with
Hudson Classical Theater Company as Lady Sneerwell in The School for
Scandal, Hildy Johnson in His Girl Friday, Caroline Bingley in Pride &
Prejudice, Player Queen in Hamlet, Elise in Trojan Women & Milady de
Winter in The Three Musketeers. She would like to thank her family &
friends for all of their love & support, especially her mom who is
always there for her & has been the wind beneath her wings through
thick & thin! Love you mom! www.karencollazzo.com
Linda Elizabeth (Feste) Linda is thrilled to return to
Riverside park for Twelfth Night! Select Hudson Classical Theater
Company credits include Antony & Cleopatra (Caesar), Merry Wives of
Windsor (Fenton), and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Maria). Select acting and
production credits include: Off Broadway: Imagining Madoff (Theatre
Row, NLTP); Off-Off Broadway: Miranda in The Tempest (Theater 2020),
Lucille in Something Somewhere Somehow (Shelter Studios), Hermia in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream (Gene Frankel Theatre); Regional: Elma in Bus
Stop (Bristol Riverside Theatre). Film/TV: “The Distance Between Us,”
“Gossip Girl,” “The Perfect Murder,” national Super Bowl commercial for
Chevrolet, national internet campaign for eBay, and award winning
webseries “Plant.” Training: SUNY Geneseo College; Oxford University;
The Barrow Group. Thank you Susane and Nicholas for all of the
opportunities to explore Shakespeare’s works! To KoDee, “I would not
wish any companion in the world but you.”
*Aya Ibaraki (Maria) Aya is an Artist in Residence with
Hudson Classical Theatre Company and most recently played Maria in The
School for Scandal. Her other HCTC credits include: Richard II, Same
River Twice, Pride and Prejudice, Trojan Women, Many Faces of Love and
the documentary “What They Said.” As a puppeteer, she performs for
children in treatment in hospitals across the US with Broadway Hearts.
Training: Wynn Handman Studio, Shakespeare and Co., AMDA/The New
School.
KoDee Martin
(Sir Andrew Aguecheek) KoDee is honored to return to Hudson Classical Theater Company to play Sir Andrew. Other Hudson Classical Theater Company acting credits include Love’s Labour’s Lost (King Ferdinand), and Pride and Prejudice (Charles Bingley). A lover of the Bard, previous Shakespeare credits include Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick), Twelfth Night (Duke Orsino), The Tempest (Ferdinand), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Demetrius). Other favorite credits include: Next to Normal, Allegiance, 1776, Les Misérables, The Who's Tommy, Dead Accounts and Scratch. He feels truly grateful to be given an opportunity to play with every member of this cast and the entire Hudson Classical Theater Company team. To Linda, “The very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to your service.”
Nick Paradiso (Antonio/Captain) Nick is so excited to be
playing Antonio in Twelfth Night. Not only is this his first time
working with Hudson Classical, it's his first time working on
Shakespeare on stage! The cast and crew have been amazing on stage and
off and I really couldn't have asked for a better summer
theater experience in the NYC!
Austin Reynolds (Duke Orsino) Austin is forever grateful and delighted
to be returning to the Soldiers’ & Sailors’ Monument steps to bring you
all a fun and enjoyable evening. He would be nothing without the
continued support of his family and his wonderful girlfriend who puts
up with most of his delirium. Thank you so much for coming out and
please enjoy the show!
Daniel Yaiullo (Malvolio) Daniel recently appeared in the
off-Broadway premiere of Eric Bogosian's 1+1 at SoHo Playhouse. He
stars in the comedy series "Events at Hemlock Manor" and recently acted
in "Gothic Slayers,” a comedy-horror feature film premiering this year.
He co-wrote and co-stars in "Nightfish,” a comedy series concerning two
diametrically opposed overnight aquarium employees. Shakespearean
highlights include Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost (dir. Nicholas
Martin-Smith), Jaques in As You Like It (dir. Ian Belknap), Romeo
in Romeo & Juliet (dir. Sharlene Cruz), and an ensemble member in
Kenneth Branagh's Macbeth at Park Avenue Armory. IG: @dyaiullo
Production Team
Susane Lee (Adapter & Co-Director) Susane serves as the
Executive Artistic Director of the Hudson Classical Theater Company.
She is a director and writer and has adapted for the stage many
classical works including Alexandre Dumas’s tetralogy of The Three
Musketeers, The Three Musketeers: 20 Years Later, The Man in the Iron
Mask, and The Count of Monte Cristo. She recently directed The
Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) this past June and
previous, The Comedy of Errors. She has adapted and directed Jane
Austen’s Pride & Prejudice. Susane has also adapted Austen’s Sense &
Sensibility, and her adaptation of Emma was set in the 1950’s in
Newport, Rhode Island. As a lifetime Member of the Writers Guild of
America, East, Susane has directed screenplays for the Guild at the
Lincoln Film Center. Susane was a two-time nominee for Best Director
for the Take Ten Festival and directed plays for Women 365. As a
Producer/Writer for PBS/Channel 13 in NYC for 15 years, she traveled to
more than 100 cities across the U.S., producing and writing one-hour
documentaries. Susane received a PBS Communication Award, was awarded a
NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Nonfiction Literature in
2005, and published a memoir for MORE magazine. Susane was a Finalist
for the Wai Look Award, given by the Asian American Arts Alliance for
those “who outstandingly contributed to the arts.”
Nicholas Martin-Smith (Co-director) Nicholas has
performed in and directed many Hudson Classical Theater Company’s
productions, a company he founded in 2004. Acting credits include this
past June’s production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
(abridged), Walter Burns in His Girl Friday, the title roles in TITUS
and MACBETH, Aramis in The Three Musketeers: 20 Years Later and The Man
in the Iron Mask. He has appeared Off-Broadway as Frank Deluca in The
Rise of Dorothy Hale at St. Luke’s Theatre and as Harrison Brent in
Perfect Crime at the Snapple Theatre Center. Also Off-Broadway as
Angelo in Measure for Measure (Soho Rep), and Mark Anthony in Julius
Caesar (Douglas Fairbanks). Nicholas is the recipient of the “Monroe
Lippman Founder’s Award for Acting,” and a “Best of Boston” Award for
his performance as the title role in David Mamet’s Edmond.
Emma Weiner (she/her) (Production Stage Manager) Emma is
thrilled to be working with Hudson Classic again after Complete Works
of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (ASM) and last season’s Margaret:
Shakespeare’s Warrior Queen (ASM). Her most recent productions include
working PSM for Aftershocks and The Boy Who Listened to Paintings
(Theatre for the New City), as well as ASM for Titus Andronicus
(Barefoot Shakespeare Co.), Sunday in the Park with George
(Theater2020) and SM for You’re Gone Love Tomorrow (Theater2020). She
would like to thank her mother and loving partner who make sure she
steps away from her email every now and then.
Tanuka Ghosh (Costume Designer) is an artist and a
fashion designer with international work experience in Europe, US,
Asia, and Australia. She studied fashion design at FIT, New York and
Politechnico di Milano, Italy. Having 13+ years of fashion design
experience, she just started designing costumes for theater, which had
always been a passion for her. She has worked with major fashion
brands such as DKNY Jeans, Calvin Klein athleisure, Jones Group,
Faherty Brand, Weatherproof, Marvel+Disney from conception, development
and production of various collections. She is also a Fashion
Illustrator, who has showcased her designs in form of fashion shows in
Milan, Newyork, Mumbai. Last year, she collaborated with a collage
artist, Barbara Shelly for a Sustainable and upcycled fashion show at
an Art Gallery in Chelsea, NYC. Her designs has been published in
Vogue, Inspire (Slovenia), Trendsetter (Turkey). She is an advocate of
sustainability and has created sustainable/upcycled fashion
collections. She loves a good cup of tea, traveling around the world,
exploring different cultures, particularly fabric and history.
Nathan Mattingly (Musical Director) A company member of
the Hudson Classical Theater Company Nathan is a NYC-based actor,
multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter. He has served as Hudson
Classical’s Musical Director since 2016. As an actor, Nathan has
performed with the company as King Richard in Richard II, Horatio in
Hamlet, D’Artagnan in The Three Musketeers, Pompey in Antony and
Cleopatra and Aeneas in Trojan Women, among others. Film/TV: “AHS:NYC”,
"Ramona". Nathan has composed original music for Much Ado About Nothing
(Hudson Classical), Othello (Hudson Classical), and A Midsummer Night’s
Dream (Snarks/ACC). He also regularly performs original americana/folk
music at venues throughout NYC.
New York Combat for Stage and Screen (Fight Direction): NYCSS
has been active in NYC since 1999. Their goal on every production is
to excite and captivate an audience with violence that enhances the
story being told. Whether on film, tv, or stage, they create
safe, realistic, & truthful moments that reveal character. For more
details: nycstagecombat.com
Jared Kirby (Fight Director) who has been involved in Combat for Stage & Screen and Western Martial Arts for nearly 30 years. He choreographs & teaches across the US and around the world (jaredkirby.com).
Tony Mita (Fight Director) has been training & working in this art for over 13 years and is driven by a mix of his passions for historical martial arts and nerd culture to create a blend of martially realistic with out-of-this-world fantastical in his work.
Will Stevens (they/them) (Assistant Director) is a
director from Brooklyn. They graduated from Reed College with a B.A. in
theatre in 2023. Recent credits A Night at the Micro-Opera (director;
Cloud City) and the Great White Gets Off / Great White Gives It Up
duology (co-director; FUSE Theater Ensemble). Previous Hudson credits
include stage managing Margaret: Shakespeare's Warrior Queen, and The
Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (twice!). This fall,
they are directing Lizzie at Chapel Theatre in Portland, Oregon. See
more at: itswillstevens.com
Ila Finn (Assistant Stage Manager) Ila is a writer and
designer from California who is working towards a BFA in Dramatic
Writing at NYU Tisch. Recent credits include: Cabaret (Tisch New
Theater, Assistant Scenic & Props Designer), The Call (Broke People
Play Festival, Stage Manager), Don’t Kill The Human (Broke People Play
Festival & 5x10 Play Festival, Co-Writer), and Hail Mary (Broke People
Play Festival, Assistant Stage Manager).
Henry Nunez (Production Intern) Henry is a rising
sophomore at Columbia University and Excited to be interning with
Hudson Classical Theater Company this summer! He is majoring in English
and primarily involved in theatre through his college’s student theatre
organizations, where he has previously acted as an assistant director
and a dramaturg.
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