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Editor in Chief, SOCKO! Magazine
A cinephile who has turned her passion into several careers, Angela Matusik is a journalist, producer, marketer, and filmmaker. She has been creating stories for Fortune 500 companies, global platforms, and film studios for over two decades. She began her career working her way up the editorial ladder at beloved media brands, including People, InStyle, Domino, Harper’s Bazaar and Paper Magazine. During her tenure at InStyle, Matusik drove digital and social media growth to record seven-figure numbers. Currently the founder and CEO of the marketing consulting agency, A.M. Stories, Matusik helps clients thread the needle of their brand stories through multiple platforms for targeted audience growth, turning audiences into fans. She has done this work for entertainment companies (Focus Features, AGBO Films), global tech brands (Lenovo) and iconic non-profits (Operation Smile). She is also the producer of several award-winning documentary series, including MITSolve’s The Big Idea, a Webby Award and Telly Award winner. As a journalist, Matusik extensively covered the entertainment industry, including reporting from film festivals and red carpets and interviewing more A-list stars than she can count. She moved to Maplewood, NJ in 2011, in part, because she found a house within walking distance to the movie theater. Matusik recently co-founded the non-profit Maplewood Film Society, dedicated to creating pop-up film events and advocating for in-person screenings. |
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Publisher, SOCKO! Magazine
Adam Nelson has lived at the intersection of performance and American storytelling for more than three decades. A trained actor from Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and the University of the Arts, with advanced study at Yale and Oxford, Nelson came up in the downtown New York theater scene of the early 1990s. The Village Voice called his one-man adaptation of Lenny Bruce's How to Talk Dirty "restless, brilliant, and hilarious." Time Out New York called him "a theatrical madman." His film credits include work opposite Ann-Margret, John Turturro, Justin Theroux, and Ben Gazzara. In 2001, he co-produced The 24 Hour Plays benefit to aid the World Trade Center Relief Fund alongside Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, Sam Rockwell, Marisa Tomei, and Scarlett Johansson. Prior to founding Workhouse in 1999, Nelson was a senior publicist at Jason Weinberg & Associates, where he represented Tim Burton, David LaChapelle, Deborah Harry, Lennox Lewis, and Martin Short. He was the inaugural Publicity Director for Irving Plaza concert hall, the first Communications Director of the Asbury Park Boardwalk, co-founded House of Independents, and led the Warner Brothers account early in his career. For 28 years, Workhouse has had the honor of representing emerging and iconic clients including the Charlie Chaplin Estate, Francis Ford Coppola, the International Emmy Awards, The Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood, the Anthony Quinn Estate, Interview Magazine, Lou Reed, Hugh Jackman, Garden State Film Festival, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has received numerous awards including PR Net's Marcomms Most Influential, Best in Biz Marketing Executive of the Year, the MarCom Career Achievement Award, the Netty Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Hermes Creative Achievement Award. Nelson is a professor at the New Jersey Film Academy, where he is training a new generation of filmmakers and crew for the state's expanding production economy. He conceived and produced Local Legends, a documentary portrait of the voices that define the creative spirit of Asbury Park. His other credits include Editor in Chief of Boyscout Magazine, for which he received a Communication Award for best new magazine, and a Writer's Digest Screenwriting Award of Merit. His film Food for Thought, which he wrote and stars in, was a finalist at the AP'N3 Film Challenge and won Best Silent Film at the 2026 Absurd Film Festival in Milan. Huckleberry Jim, his debut novel, is currently querying literary agents. |
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Contributors
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Samad HaqPhotographer, New Jersey Now! Cover Story
Multimedia artist based in Philadelphia, New Jersey and New York. Specializing in events, graphics, videography, and combative sports. Visit @samadhaq |
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Vishnu NairPhotographer, NJFA Student
Vishnu Nair is a multimedia production student at Brookdale Community College, expected to graduate in December 2026. Working primarily in photography, his practice explores Vedic themes through a contemporary lens, blending tradition with modern visual storytelling. In addition to conceptual work, he is experienced in portraiture and event photography, bringing a thoughtful, detail-oriented approach to each subject he captures. Visit vishnunair |
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Antonio JohnsonPhotographer, NJFA Student
Antonio Johnson is a Jamaican-American Actor and Artist from Asbury Park, New Jersey. Antonio has both an engineering and a theatre degrees. With over 10+ years in the Industry he possesses the necessary knowledge and creativity to enhance the image and brand of any production. Antonio is looking forward to the next chapter in his career, collaborating, networking and continuing his professional education with the New Jersey Film Academy. "God, Love, and Art” Faith, community, and creativity are three things that help shape this Renaissance Man. |
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Barry LygaWriter, Life Lessons for Batman's "Protector and Defender"
Barry Lyga is a lifelong comic book reader and the author of 30 novels, including the origin of the MCU’s Thanos in Thanos: Titan Consumed and the New York Times best-selling I Hunt Killers trilogy, which spins off into a new series this June with Every Hunter Is Hunted. You can find him online on Bluesky and Instagram, as well as at barrylyga.com. |
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Adriana TomaWriter, Queen of Castles: Kerry O'Brien
Adriana Toma is a writer, non-fiction filmmaker, and creative consultant. She’s built her storytelling and production expertise across The Economist, VICE, CNN, NowThis, and FUTURE, where she recently served as managing editor and co-writer of The Re|set Newsletter. |
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Adriana TomaWriter, Monsieur Kuhn
Elizabeth Moglia Jackson is a freelance writer, film buff, and foodie living in Maplewood. She’s written extensively about New Jersey, for Edible Jersey and as the former Publisher & Editor of Macaroni Kid (SOMA, Summit, & Millburn). She also writes about caregiving and the “sandwich generation” at: swgeneration.com |
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Elisa RolandWriter, I'll Have What They're Having
Elisa Roland has written many articles for Reader's Digest and also contributes to SheKnows, The Healthy, Family Handyman, Hometown Quarterly, Silkpurse Women. She’s currently working on a middle grade novel about Sneakerheads, and is a marketing consultant. She’s frequented many Jersey diners for late night disco fries. Find her work at .elisaroland.com. |
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Chad HuntPhotographer, Our Talented Friends and Neighbors, Tim Squyres, Movies Matter More Than Ever
Chad is an award winning portrait photographer and photo journalist. His images have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, Popular Mechanics, Gourmet, Jersey Monthly and on the cover of Time magazine. He is the recipient of a 2007 National Portrait Prize from the National Portrait Gallery in London, a prize winner from The Woodstock Center of Photography, and a nominee for the Santa Fe Prize for Photography. Hunt currently is a staff photographer at Memorial Sloan Kettering. See his work at https://chadhuntphotography.com |
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Special ThanksJan & Edmondo Abbruzzese, Jackie Atkins, Kat Carlson, Daniel Colaianni, Joseph Colicelli, Raz Cristescu, Leonard DeGraaf, Sandro Diaz, Jason Fisher, John Keegan, Gannon Murphy, Linda Nelson, Lulu Nelson, Nicole Nelson, Sailor Nelson, Viva Nelson, Dorian Nichols, Gary Paz, Elizabeth Santos, Jackie Stolfi, Brian Papworth
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