His lucky break came in 2002, when Donmar Warehouse artistic director Michael Grandage saw his work on Romeo and Juliet at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester.
The warehouse's executive director for the last two years was fired following a preliminary investigation.
The company needed more space and wanted to own rather than rent its warehouse, said Richard Ziemacki, director of North American operations.
This June, the warehouse's "creative director," Max Harris, was charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter.
Meanwhile, he became involved with London's Donmar Warehouse, becoming an associate director in 2000 and succeeding Sam Mendes as artistic director in 2002.
"The pianos were stashed away in a parks department warehouse," said Frank Ryan, the director of purchasing for Nassau County.
Li & Fung's ability to exert pressure on factories can have unfortunate consequences, said Guadalupe Palma, director of Warehouse Workers United, a labor advocacy group.
The race for the presidency of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters pits Mr. Hoffa against Tom Leedham, who heads the union's warehouse division, and John Metz, director of its public employee division.
Artistic director, Donmar Warehouse I am 20 pages in and already hooked on Laura Barnett's romantic counterfactual The Versions of Us (Weidenfeld & Nicholson £12.99), which is a kind of literary Sliding Doors.
The 70 contributors also included Ewan McGregor, who appeared in Othello at the Donmar Warehouse three years ago, the Australian director Baz Luhrmann, who won plaudits for his modern reworking of Romeo + Juliet, and the film actor Ian Ogilvy, best known for his role in the cult Seventies television series The Saint.
