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Spring Term Part B is a snack-sized term designed for actors of all levels. In only five weeks, practiced actors add niche expertise to their skillset in classes taught by specialists in the field, and first-time actors build a fluency in Uta Hagen’s method in introductory classes. The deadline to sign up for Part B classes and workshops is fast approaching – bite down on your next lesson and register before Monday, May 5 – enroll now!
In the Classroom
Stage Combat: Weapons Training with Christian Kelly-Sordelet
Learn how to strike for stage and screen in order to create extraordinary fight scenes with weaponry.
Actuar en Español with Maria Fontanals
Aplica las prácticas de la técnica de Uta Hagen discutidas en su libro Un reto para el actor.
Playwriting Technique (Online) with David Grimm
Explore what plays can be and how we might write them with playwrights of all levels.
Voice Over: Cartoons & Videogames (Online) with Theresa Buchheister
Take a deep dive into the basic skills and valuable practices of cartoon and videogame voiceover performance.
Live at HB Studio
Testimony: Theater as Witness to Our Time
Tuesday, April 22 at 7pm
at HB Playwrights Theatre
Pay-What-You-Wish, $30 Recommended – Get Tickets
In observance of HB’s 80th Anniversary, this culminating workshop presentation features plays that fascinated our founder, Herbert Berghof, and in which he appeared.
This presentation highlights how Kipphardt’s work, in particular, uses testimony as an artistic tool—probing the rhetoric of authority as it collides with independent moral voices and creative minds.
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The great actor and educator Uta Hagen understood that acting is not magic. Acting is – it’s a practical, improvable skill that can be taught. The Hagen approach to acting focuses on the repetition of a series of core training lessons that have repeatedly proven to unlock the actor within everyone and to give performers at every level the confidence and knowledge necessary to excel.
HB Studio’s Summer Intensive Program is a rigorous six-week (June through August) bootcamp that applies the Hagen approach to see you become a more complete thespian. Through intense scene study, script analysis, acquisition of Alexander Technique and technical movement, and vocal exercises, Hagen’s “Six Steps” will sit at the center of your mastery of your craft. Amidst a faculty of seasoned practitioners, you’ll be immersed with direct and in-depth methods that will strengthen your instrument and expand your skills. The Intensive meets June through August, Monday to Friday, 40-hours-a-week. At $3600 for three months, HB Studio training costs a fraction of similarly nationally accredited programs.
If you’re ready, if you’re serious, if this is the year you plan to emerge a stronger, more knowledgeable, more confident actor, this is the program for you – apply now.
Peter Francis James directs, and Charlotte Bydwell assistant directs, All’s Well That End’s Well at the Old Globe in San Diego from June 8 – July 6.
Mercedes Ruehl directs two HB alums, Michael S. Horowitz and T.M. Rawlins, in Heisenberg at the Chain Theatre from May 1-11.
Daniel Pearce performs as Brabantio in Othello on Broadway (starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal) at the Barrymore Theatre through June 8.
Lisa Pelikan performs in Cracked Open at Theatre Row from May 6 – June 28.
Shyla Idris performs in Adam Driver at Chain Theatre as part of New York City Fringe through April 19.
Six evenings, six plays-in-process: staged readings of new works.
