KEISUKE HOASHI
Acting; Filmmaking; Original Musical Theatre

NYSMF Co-Founder; Director of Communications; NYSMF Writing & Acting Program Director; Resident Actor

You've seen NYSMF's Keisuke Hoashi on your TV set for years. He has starred in over 70 television commercials, including Dr Scholl's, McDonald's, and Citibank; he has also shown up on many hit TV shows, such as Glee, How I Met Your Mother, Mad Men, The Young and the Restless, Parenthood, and iCarly.

Keisuke's film career includes The Princess Diaries 2, The Poughkeepsie Tapes, and Half-Life, an official selection of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Theatrical appearances include the Geffen Playhouse's Paint Your Wagon, The Teahouse of the August Moon, and his original martial arts musical comedy, Memoirs of a Ninja produced in North Hollywood, CA.

For a full list of his official acting credits, please visit his page on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB).

Keisuke was a trumpet player all though high school (Stuyvesant HS in NYC) and college, attending the Crane School of Music after three glorious summers as a camper at the New York State Music Camp (NYSMC) in 1982-85 - the forerunner of NYSMF. He holds an MS in Technical Communications from RPI (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).

Retiring from music at the age of 20, Keisuke worked as a multimedia designer and project manager at the IBM, NCR, and AT&T Corporations. He fled these bastions of "Corporate America" in 1997 for a full-time acting career with occassional forays into freelance graphic design, web design, and computer consulting.


Playing Peter "Chainsaw" Gow with Jessalyn Gilsig and Matthew Morrison on the set of GLEE.



Keisuke with Cloris Leachman on the set of HAWTHORNE.


In 2005, Keisuke returned to Oneonta as the new Musical Theatre instructor for the Hartwick Festival. He completely re-invented the program, transforming it into a workshop that taught the basics of writing for the stage and screen, challenging the students to build their own original production in under 2 weeks. He also added classes in filmmaking and acting from a working actor's perspective.

Co-founding NYSMF in 2006, Keisuke continued teaching these creative workshop programs while also taking on the mantle of NYSMF's webmaster, photographer, videographer, graphic designer, media production house, computer support clearinghouse, official Festival Host, and many other responsibilities falling under his deliberately generic title as NYSMF's Director of Communications.

And although his agent grumbles back on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, CA, he gladly returns every summer to NYSMF to continue giving back something to a place that gave him so much as a kid.


Keisuke Hoashi as Hachi Saito with Robert Morse (Bertram Cooper) on the set of MAD MEN.



With Jon Hamm (Don Draper) on the set of MAD MEN.