During Dodge's early professional years, no figure was more instrumental in shaping the designer's career, process and joie de vivre in the theatre than director Nicholas Martin. Mentor, collaborator and friend, Martin worked with Dodge on more than 20 productions during the first decades of the designer's life in the theatre.
Martin began his career as an actor, and then in the 1990s when he was in his 50s, he pivoted to a successful career as a director at regional theaters and in New York. He was also artistic director, first at Boston's Huntington Theater Company (2000 to 2008) and then at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the Massachusetts Berkshires (2008 to 2010). Martin also taught at Bennington College in Vermont where Dodge was an undergraduate in the early '90s. "I wanted to work with Nicky at school," says the designer, "but I was too young to be assigned to him because only seniors were doing big projects with him and he stopped teaching there when I became a senior." But a mentor relationship with Martin eventually developed in the mid-'90s when Dodge became the resident designer at a theater where Martin was beginning his directing career: Malaparte, an off-off-Broadway theater company founded by Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard and other actors. Malaparte's location on Theatre Row on 42nd Street, plus its star affiliations, gave its low-budget productions greater visibility in New York. "We had a budget for the sets," says Dodge, "around $10,000 or $20,000, and, though I didn't get paid, it allowed me to get work onto my portfolio."
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