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Hello, I’m Preston! I have several hyphens in my artistic and storytelling offerings. I am a performer, stage director, writer, video artist, and educator. As a performer I have performed comedy, music and theater in over 50

Preston Martin

Hello, I’m Preston! I have several hyphens in my artistic and storytelling offerings. I am a performer, stage director, writer, video artist, and educator. As a performer I have performed comedy, music and theater in over 50 venues in New York City and in nine countries across the world. The New Yorker called my work “captivating,” The New York Times found me “fabulously committed” and “hilarious,” and Theatermania asserts I am “almost certainly homosexual.” On screen I have worked with Greta Gerwig as a

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Hello, I’m Preston! I have several hyphens in my artistic and storytelling offerings. I am a performer, stage director, writer, video artist, and educator.

As a performer I have performed comedy, music and theater in over 50 venues in New York City and in nine countries across the world. The New Yorker called my work “captivating,” The New York Times found me “fabulously committed” and “hilarious,” and Theatermania asserts I am “almost certainly homosexual.”

On screen I have worked with Greta Gerwig as a dancer in “Little Women,” Quinn Shephard in Hulu’s “Not Okay,” and Mary Stuart Masterson on the devised drama “The Rest of Us.” I have appeared twice in the Tribeca Film Festival.

I have branched into video art, directing, filming and editing two music videos for Broadway chanteuse Grace McLean, each with tens of thousands of views. I blended my theater prowess with this new skill set in my one person multimedia project “Chicken Soup With Stars,” built through a residency at Ars Nova.

The creative process is sacred to me from all angles. Humans tell ourselves stories all day about our lives. It is an honor to reflect this action in multiple mediums. Let’s take on the honor together!

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Skills

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Experience Level

Final Cut Pro X
Expert
Music Video
Expert
Logic Pro
Expert
Short Film
Intermediate
Voiceover
Intermediate
Actor Showreel
Intermediate
Composition
Intermediate
Theme Tune
Intermediate

Language

English
Fluent

Education

BFA at NYU Tisch
August 20, 2003 - June 1, 2007
Playwrights Horizons, Experimental Theatre Wing

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Industry Experience

Education, Media & Entertainment
    uniE613 Music Video for Grace McLean's Albertine
    On our second collaboration, Grace knew she wanted to film at SPACE on Ryder Farm and that she wanted to build visuals based on Proust's account of the character Albertine changing faces according to the light. We brought visuals of the shapeshifting nature of depression and the echo effects of rage, culminating in the feeling that a murder has occurred when a love falls to its doom. I conceptualized, directed, filmed, lit, edited and colored this music video. Aishia Lin Sampson choreographed. https://youtu.be/Ettpmqlo6_4?si=7UmnZIbUpwdJ14N7
    uniE613 Music Video for Grace McLean's Reckless
    Grace and I have worked together for many years onstage and she hired me to direct a music video for her single Reckless. We dug into the conflict between a woman trapped within pristine beauty standards and the deep desire to make a mess with her body and emotions, often using alcohol as an entry point to this liberation. I conceptualized, directed, filmed, lit, edited and colored this music video. https://youtu.be/PlnSLTyulI8?si=2s01uMd4Khr5oMkS