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NYSMF
Director of Communications; Resident Actor
You've
seen NYSMF's Keisuke Hoashi on your TV set for years. He has
starred in over sixty television commercials, including
current ads for Yamaha, McDonald's, and Citibank;
he has also shown
up on many hit TV shows, such as How
I Met Your Mother, Las Vegas, Boston Legal, and The
King of Queens.
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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
NYS Music
Camp
(NYSMC) in 1982-85. He holds
an MS in Technical Communications from RPI (Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute).
Retiring
from music at the age of 20, Keisuke worked for years 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.
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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. |
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Keisuke
with
Hugh Jackman on the set of VIVA LAUGHLIN |
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 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. |